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FireWire Could Set IMac Ablaze
News FireWire connectivity has helped ignite sales of Apple's professional desktop Macs and (through third-party PC Cards) PowerBooks. Despite some hints that FireWire will soon join Universal Serial Bus as a common denominator across Apple's product...
[August 25, 1999, 9:54]
FireWire Hots Up In Consumer Electronics
News Apple's FireWire technology for high-speed connections between peripherals and PCs appears to be making a comeback, partly driven by increasing demand in consumer electronics, according to a report from research firm In-Stat/MDR.
[June 9, 2003, 16:29]
More Wires, More Fire: FireWire 800
Talkback Thank you - this is the information I was looking for in trying to decide between Firewire 400 and 800
[July 17, 2006, 13:33]
FireWire Speeds Set To Quadruple
News The speed of FireWire is set to quadruple next year after the group behind it announced a new specification for the networking interface. FireWire is the best-known brand name for the 1394 standard, which is also known as i.LINK.
[December 17, 2007, 11:45]
Mac Drive Makers Patch FireWire Flaw
News A number of hard-drive makers have released patches designed to prevent a glitch that has caused some FireWire 800 drives to lose data when used with the new version of Mac OS X. We currently believe that this issue relates to a change in the way...
[November 3, 2003, 16:10]
Q&A: Adaptec's Silver On FireWire
News Although Universal Serial Bus (USB) has been 1996's headline-grabbing bus, IEEE 1394, more glamorously known as FireWire, could have a more radical effect on the desktop. Pretty much all have said it's their plan to put FireWire in some...
[September 19, 1996, 14:33]
JVC Touts VCR-to-PC FireWire Alternative
News JVC said today it will launch products based on its new JLIP video protocol next month, shunning the much-touted IEEE 1394 'FireWire' bus standard. We found that with FireWire there was nowhere to go for us in video terms.
[October 25, 1996, 16:52]
Developing A Java API For Digital Video Control Using The Firewire SDK
White Papers FireWire is a standard on the Macintosh platform, with most Digital Video cameras supporting the FireWire interface. This paper illustrates how to build a simple Java application that controls a Digital Video camera though the FireWire bus.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Sony Camera To Breathe Life Into FireWire
News While FireWire - or IEEE.1394 as it is sometimes known - is not a new technology, peripherals that take advantage of its lightning fast transfer rates have been scarce. Sony's DFW-V300 Digital Colour Camera is its second camera in the category and...
[October 7, 1997, 16:36]
Setting Up Linux With FireWire-Based Shared Storage For Oracle9i RAC
White Papers If a person is all fired up about FireWire and wants to set up a two-node cluster for development and testing purposes for the Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) database on Linux, this paper will help the reader get started.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft Picks FireWire Over USB
News Cahners predicts that by 2004, there will be 750 million USB-equipped PCs and peripherals in use versus 112 million with FireWire. FireWire, by contrast, is an attractive alternative for connecting digital camcorders, scanners and similar high...
[April 11, 2001, 9:35]
Striking A Balance Between FireWire And USB
White Papers The world of FireWire (IEEE 1394) and USB. Have you looked behind your computer recently? Remember when you had a parallel port to connect a printer, a serial port to connect a modem, and cables for a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse?
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Apple Frees FireWire Software
News Aiming to spur adoption of FireWire in consumer electronics, Apple said on Wednesday that it will give away software that helps device makers add the high-speed port to their products. Apple's FireWire reference platform includes much of the...
[August 8, 2002, 14:00]
Adaptec Combo Card Has FireWire, UltraSCSI
News The firm's AHA-8945 FireCard Ultra puts both features on the card, providing the ability to connect FireWire-enabled devices like DV digital video camcorders and quickly store the resulting data. Up to 63 FireWire devices and fifteen SCSI devices...
[June 17, 1997, 13:44]
New FireWire Forges Ahead At Double Speed
News As competition looms, FireWire backers have finalised a plan to initially double the speed -- and eventually offer eight times the speed -- of the connection used to link PCs to camcorders and other peripherals.
[May 24, 2001, 10:02]
What's In A Name? For FireWire, Plenty
News 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 other backers to rethink how they market the...
[May 30, 2002, 9:02]
Apple Snaps Up FireWire Company
News Zayante's technology is used to make consumer electronics and semiconductor products compliant with the IEEE 1394 standard -- also known as FireWire. FireWire, which was invented by Apple, is designed to help PCs and consumer electronics devices...
[April 4, 2002, 16:12]
Member Review Build Your Own Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 Cluster On Linux And FireWire
White Papers One of the most efficient ways to become familiar with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g technology is to have access to an actual Oracle RAC 10g cluster. There's no better way to understand its benefits - including fault tolerance...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Fundamentals Of Firewire
White Papers The IEEE 1394 protocol, along with USB, Ethernet and IrDA will be the data channels of the future. Any embedded system that needs to share information (and what applications won’t? will use at least one of the aforementioned communication methods.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
