If you've got a manual on USB ports or have watched any kind of video, you may have heard them referred to as Male or Female ports. Here's what that means.

IEEE1394 (it's only "Firewire (tm)" if it's implemented with an Apple-approved chipset in a Mac) makes a different approach to a serial bus than USB does.

USB 2.0, which can move data up to 480mbps, compared with the pokey 12mbps handled by USB 1.1, provides stiff competition for FireWire, a technology invented by Apple Computer that transports data ...

Intel had initially backed FireWire, but the company pulled its support and shifted to USB 2.0 in light of the new FireWire fees and USB 2.0's 480 Mbps top transfer speed.

Get a PCI firewire card or PCCARD or ExpressBus Card for whatever interface your system has.. <BR><BR>That USB cable looks ugly. The software might be required as something has to do the protocol ...

The 1394 Trade Association announced a new standard of firewire with speed quadruples current spec of 800Mbit/s to 3.2Gbit/s . It wouldn't be named alphabetic order like they have for 1394a, 1394b ...

Networking company D-Link released a combo USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 and FireWire adapter card, part of its effort to offer a way for the two connectivity standards to peacefully coexist.

Pressure Drop Inc. on Wednesday introduced PaperHub, a device that combines two letter-sized paper trays with four FireWire 400 and four USB 2.0 ports. Made of anodized aluminum, PaperHub comes ...

The new IEEE 1394-2008 specification will introduce support for S1600 (1.6 GB/s) and S3200 (3.2 GB/s). It will be fully backward compatible with previous ports, S400 and S800. Many older FireWire ...