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IPods Are Security Risk, Warns Analyst
News Businesses must ensure that the right procedures and technologies are adopted to securely manage the use of portable storage devices like USB 'keychain' drives. Another potential danger is that the devices -- that typically make use of USB and...
[July 5, 2004, 17:30]
Microsoft Disconnects Intel Pet Project
News The standard was largely the work of Intel, throwing its weight behind USB's development as a way around paying Apple's licence fees. Intel's vision has been for USB to eventually take over much of the role of FireWire -- particularly in the realm...
[April 18, 2001, 16:12]
Apple Power Mac G5 (dual 2.7GHz) review
Reviews Apple is stubbornly keeping the number of USB and FireWire ports low, with one USB 2.0 port on the front and two on the back, one FireWire 400 port on the front and one on the back, and a FireWire 800 port on the back.
[June 10, 2005, 12:35]
Consumer Demand Calls For More Flash Memory
News It's also widely used in mobile phones and USB flash drives. Already the NAND Flash in USB drives has displaced floppy disk drives in PCs for transferring data, especially as density in NAND flash devices increases," said Jim Handy, an analyst at...
[November 22, 2005, 14:10]
Intel Touts A New Kind Of PC
News Intel became a prime mover in the USB movement after becoming disenchanted with the licence fees necessary with FireWire, which was invented by Apple, but in the mean time FireWire has become a standard with camcorders and is included on many...
[April 25, 2001, 6:17]
Does Zip Have A Future?
News Iomega has launched a new Zip 750 drive in a version that supports USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 connections and plans to unveil a FireWire model at next month's Apple Expo in Paris. The new drive's USB 2.0 interface delivers read/write speeds...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
Apple Time Capsule: A First Look review
Reviews Apple's old Airport Extreme access point comes close, in that it has 802.11n and can accept an external hard drive via a USB port. Apple's Time Capsule, announced at the Macworld press conference, promises Mac and PC data backup over a wireless...
[January 16, 2008, 10:05]
Microsoft And Apple's Interoperability Tussle
News Apple would not comment for this story.iPod owners will be able to connect their digital music devices through one of the Xbox 360's three USB 2 ports. He also said that Microsoft was working around Apple's assertion of control over the iPod's dock...
[November 4, 2005, 17:25]
Tiny Toshiba Drives To Offer Storage Aplenty
News For the latest news, reviews and price checks on everything from USB flash cards and PCCard hard disks to storage area networks, see ZDNet UK's Storage Special. Their capacities are well above those of most gadget-sized devices, including Apple...
[January 16, 2002, 16:33]
Sony Reveals VAIO Makeover
News The music can be transferred from Windows PC via USB. It looks like a strong competitor to Apple's iPod music player, with a storage capacity of about 13,000 songs in a 20GB hard disk. By rebranding the VAIO business as "Do VAIO", the company hopes...
[May 10, 2004, 17:00]
Apple Turns To Xeon For Xserve
News This will include two 2GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors with 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM RAM, a single 80GB 3Gb/s SATA Apple Drive, dual Gigabit Ethernet on-board, internal graphics, three FireWire 800 and two USB 2.0 ports.
[August 8, 2006, 13:30]
Freecom DataTank Gateway WLAN review
Reviews Furthermore, with the two integrated USB 2.0 ports, you can use a standard USB printer as a network printer and also add extra hard drives or other storage devices to increase the network storage capacity quickly.
[October 9, 2007, 9:37]
Mac Presentation Software Misses The Key Notes
News For the latest news, reviews and price checks on everything from USB flash cards and PCCard hard disks to storage area networks, see ZDNet UK's Storage News Section. The Keynote discussion forum on Apple's Web site is filled with reports of...
[January 23, 2003, 10:06]
Apple Upgrades IPod, Shows Bluetooth
News Apple was the first to build in Ethernet, one of the first to build in USB, the first to build in FireWire, and the first to build in 802.11 wireless networking," Jobs said at the keynote. Apple helped popularise USB by making it the standard...
[March 21, 2002, 10:52]
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. USB is cheaper and it's integrated in core logic chipsets.
[September 19, 1996, 14:33]
Apple Makes 54Mbps Standard On EMac
News The $999 (£618) eMac comes with an 800MHz PowerPC G4 processor, 128MB of SDRAM, a 60GB hard drive, a CD-rewritable/DVD combo drive, a 32MB ATI Technologies' 7500 graphics accelerator, 56Kbps modem, 10/100 networking USB 1.1 and FireWire ports, and...
[May 6, 2003, 16:01]
Apple Ships Rack-mounted Server
News The $2,999 (about £1,960) entry-level model features a 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 256MB of double data-rate SDRAM, a 60GB ATA/100 hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, dual Gigabit Ethernet networking ports, two USB 1.1 ports, three FireWire ports and Mac...
[July 1, 2002, 16:41]
Apple IPod Mini review
Reviews An exposed slot on the bottom of the iPod Mini attaches to either a FireWire or USB 1.1/2.0 cable (both included) or the optional cradle, which connects to the AC adapter or a FireWire/USB port or directly to a stereo through the line-out jack.
[February 18, 2004, 7:00]
Apple Mac Pro review
Reviews Key differences on the Mac Pro's front panel include an added optical-drive slot, an extra USB 2.0 port and a FireWire 800 jack. The latter particularly benefits designers who move their work between machines via external hard drives, since the...
[August 21, 2006, 10:25]
Apple IPod 10GB review
Reviews Performing the same feat via USB 1.1 would take at least 10 hours. Before the iPod appeared, USB was the fastest way to transfer files to an MP3 player. In other words, Apple has made a good thing even better, although we still wish that the...
[April 4, 2002, 0:00]
