You may have seen news last week of WiMedia's endorsement of the Multi-band OFDM Alliance (MBOA) UWB PHY and MAC technical specifications, paving the way for wireless USB, wireless 1394 ("FireWire") ...

TV mirroring with new iBooks: Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X differences Several readers replied to our item yesterday on TV mirroring with the new iBooks. Apparently, what happens depends on whether you are ...

With macOS 26, Apple has quietly ended support for FireWire. For many, it’s a footnote in a changelog. But for those who lived through the late 90s and early 2000s, FireWire was the high-speed, ...

The IEEE 1394 Trade Association has announced a new FireWire specification that the group claims is capable of delivering up to 3.2Gb per second of throughput. The new interface (officially known as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sonnet Technologies has introduced the Yin•Yang FireWire 800 to FireWire 400/800 mini hub. This ...

For a moment in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the future looked uncertain for the Universal Serial Bus (USB). At the time, it was IEEE 1394 (better known by the Apple trademark FireWire) that ...

For several years, Apple Computer's FireWire has been the leading means of providing high-speed connections between computers and digital devices, but fresh competition is forcing the company and ...

In today's news, the IEEE has approved the new FireWire 2008 specification, which will include the S1600 and S3200 standards, running at 1.6Gbps and 3.2Gbps each. The new IEEE 1394 standards will use ...

Most modern Macs—except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models—offer both FireWire and USB connections. When shopping for an external hard drive, then, you have many options for something that ...