Apple Computer has almost single-handedly succeeded in turning USB into an accepted interface standard. Sony, Apple, and others are currently making FireWire into the industry standard for multimedia.

Announced by Apple in 1995, FireWire was used for high-speed data transfers and for downloading digital video direct from FireWire-equipped camcorders. With a transmission rate of 400M bit/sec., ...

So, my 20GB iPod is on the way, thanks to a big discount from a friend who works at Apple. My Sony Vaio has built-in FireWire that I'm hoping I can use for the initial file transfer. Longer-term, I'd ...

I haven't had an external drive since I stopped using my SCSI tower about five years ago. Since then I've tolerated the acceptable speeds of IDE for the tradeoff in large amounts of storage. As my box ...