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In trying to achieve the highest performance when working with files stored on external hard drives, the Firewire Interface was invented. The first version was the FireWire 400, also known as 1394a. This was the first step in reaching data-transfer speeds suitable for working with multimedia applications. This featu... |
11 November 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Trying to provide users with a high-capacity storage solution that is available in a portable form factor, OWC has recently launched a new portable hard drive, part of the company's growing line of notebook drive products. The new solution has been designed to offer users as much as 750GB of on-the-go storage sp... |
4 September 2009
08:24 GMT |
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The 1394 Trade Association is a worldwide organization dedicated to the advancement of the IEEE 1394 standard. In a press release issued by the organization yesterday, Apple’s decision to include 1394b in its newest MacBook Pro computers is lauded, as it “emphasizes the superior performance of FireWire800... |
11 June 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Sources say that the 1394 Trade Association has recently finished electing its 2009 board of directors, at the organization’s first quarter meeting. The Mac community refers to the IEEE 1394 technology as FireWire.According to those sources, the new board includes Peter Helfet of Eqcologic, who will serve as vi... |
11 February 2009
04:47 GMT |
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All-knowing Apple recently decided to drop FireWire as a standard, just like that, upsetting Mac fans. No surveys, no how would you feel if we were to adopt other standards, nothing. But, while frustrated Mac users fill forum threads with complaints, all hope is not lost, some suggest.Among those supporting the theor... |
21 October 2008
08:20 GMT |
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Other World Computing, or OWC for short, is a company that specializes in providing Mac users with a number of accessories and peripheral products. All of them are designed to be compatible with Apple's iMac, but sometimes they can provide support for Windows users as well. One of its latest products will offer ... |
11 July 2008
03:44 GMT |
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FireWire might be less common than the mighty USB 2.0 standard, but is still is widely used in professional applications, such as video and audio editing. Symwave gives the port a new lease of life by announcing a new physical layer chip that doubles its data transfer rate capabilities to an impressive 1.6 Gbps.Toute... |
9 April 2008
06:07 GMT |
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Storage specialist LaCie has announced its latest external storage devices signed by industrial design specialist Neil Poulton. The drive comes with a triple interface including USB 2.0, eSATA, and Firewire 400 in order to maximize compatibility with the host system and ensure smooth data transfer rates.The hard-driv... |
4 April 2008
05:59 GMT |
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A tool developed by Adam Boileau, a New Zealand security consultant with Immunity, can hack into a Windows computer in a matter of seconds via a connection made through a Firewire port. The hack dates back to 2006, but just recently Boileau has made the tool available to the public. However, what was initially interp... |
13 March 2008
10:26 GMT |
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New Zeeland hacker Adam Boileau has publicly released the source code of a tool that allows bypassing the Windows authentication via the computer's FireWire port. The tool has been written back in 2006, but its creator merely kept it for performing LanParty tricks.The cracking tool is written in Python and count... |
8 March 2008
04:50 GMT |
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The recent discovery of a Mac OS security glitch has triggered "threats" (so to speak) on behalf of Jacob Appelbaum and Adam Boileau (the two guys who've acknowledged the programming flaw), as a response to Apple's and Microsoft's non-response to the issue. The latter, who's known about the glitch... |
6 March 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Iomega has announced the availability of two new members in their portable eGo hard drive line. The new hard-disks will feature higher storage capacities, as well as a new FireWire connector. They will be showcased during the Macworld Conference & Expo starting today.The newest Iomega drives come in capacities of 160... |
15 January 2008
06:34 GMT |
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Once a year, the IT world is hysterically screaming three initials: CES. The Consumer Electronics Show may seem more important than Christmas itself and mass-media is not the only one to take it seriously. The consumer electronics producers have the opportunity of showcasing a year's work for the year to come. ... |
4 January 2008
10:36 GMT |
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The IEEE 1394, also known as Apple's FireWire and Sony's i.Link is subject to a new set of specifications meant to quadruple the actual data transfer rate. The new FireWire version will be called S3200 and is a dramatic improvement of the former specifications approved by the IEEE.Further details about the ... |
13 December 2007
04:01 GMT |
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When it was initially launched around a year ago, LaCie's Hub really took the world by surprise, as it provided a wide range of connectivity options in an extremely attractive and innovative external package. Now one year later the company has decided to upgrade its design and with the help of the French industr... |
9 November 2007
11:46 GMT |
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Although USB 2.0 remains the most popular connectivity interface around, there are certain users who would rather go for something a little faster, due to the fact that they work with data-intensive applications that require faster data transfer rates. And this is exactly the reason why G-Technology has decided to up... |
2 November 2007
04:36 GMT |
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As the number of devices that are using either the USB or the FireWire connection standards in order to connect to a host computer system is huge and growing every day and thanks to the fact that now almost every computer user sports one of more such gadgets, it is very easy for some to be left out in the cold when i... |
3 October 2007
11:06 GMT |
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While there are a number of cross platform standards designed for data transfer between different kinds of devices, there are only two that gained worldwide acceptance and are now used in almost all computers and a number of peripherals. One of these two standards is the USB and the other is the FireWire standard. Ju... |
30 July 2007
03:15 GMT |
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Competing for connectivity supremacy, IEEE 1394 aka FireWire and USB high speed are just starting a PR war. On June 27, 2007, analysis company In-Stat announced that IEEE 1394 faced major challenges and that its market share was stagnating. "1394 suffers from being the second-choice technology in many product segment... |
4 July 2007
10:52 GMT |
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No, it's not about the Mini-Me in the „I Spy"-type motion pictures but about the Apogee Electronics (again, a shadow of a rant: every producer feels like it's his utmost duty to make some) interfaces. The Mini-Me, mini MP and Mini-DAC have been designed with extreme portability in mind: as a matter of fact,... |
21 March 2007
07:07 GMT |
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