Sales of peripherals could get a boost this year as the two primary technologies for connecting external devices to PCs get turbocharged. PC makers in recent months have begun installing a high-speed ...

I am trying to connect a firewire external hard drive to a PC that doesn't have a firewire card. I know that they are two completely different technologies and that most(if not all) of the cables and ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Pros: Flexible, small, and easily pocketable FireWire and USB adapters for easy iPod connection to a desktop or laptop computer. Two of three adapters include extension cables that make these at least ...

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, ...

If you used a Mac in the late 1990s or early 2000s, chances are you plugged something into your computer with a FireWire cable at some point. The port looked nothing like the USB connectors most ...