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Faster FireWire approved for gigabit generation

News The IEEE on Wednesday announced that it had formally approved the IEEE 1394-2008 spec, which will introduce support for S1600 (1.6Gbps) and S3200 (3.2Gbps), while offering full backwards compatibility with S400 and S800 ports.

Tags: compatibility, usb, serial, firewire

1 August 2008, 9:10

Asus Eee Monitor photos leaked

News The photographs appear to show at least six USB ports on the machine, alongside standard ports like Ethernet, line-in and line-out. Seemingly official-looking pictures have emerged of Asus's upcoming all-in-one PC and display, the Eee Monitor.

Tags: machine, wi fi, ports, asus

3 July 2008, 8:34

Photos: Dubai's 'dynamic tower' in motion

News His work experience, he says, has most notably been in the area of construction -- ports and residences, among other things -- and he has also worked in development, real estate and commerce. Parts may move -- the arms on a windmill, the elevators...

Tags: press, motion, conference, energy

2 July 2008, 9:18

Photos: Revisiting a Macintosh Classic

News The back of the Apple Mac Classic is where you find your peripheral ports -- standard practice even today. Moving in on the ports, you can see our Mac has some sticky substance leaking from the vents.

Tags: classic, mark, networks, credit

17 June 2008, 9:17

News.blog: Asus Eee Box details released

News For its rear ports you get two USB 2.0, one Gigabit LAN, a DVI output, left and right audio line out with S/PDIF, and an input for a Word got out a little early yesterday morning regarding Asus's small Eee Box, which will be available in early July.

Tags: hard drive, box, linux, lan

3 June 2008, 9:47

Cracking open the Atari 2600

News The joystick ports and power adapter plug. Using the technical information found at Classic Gaming as a reference, the circled chip should be part of the subsystem where sound and video get processed, along with interaction with the paddles and...

Tags: credit, ports, output, channel

23 May 2008, 11:04

Photos: Deflating a MacBook Air

News The MacBook Air's three ports are a mini-DVI out, a USB 2.0 connection and an audio headphone jack. The Apple MacBook Air is thin, light and a testament to what good engineering and design can accomplish in a laptop personal computer.

Tags: ram, board, hard drive, air

6 March 2008, 9:35

News.blog: Microsoft tries Silverlight flash alternative

News Microsoft chose to work with Nokia because it has the largest market share of mobile phones, but it will sign on with other handset makers to create ports of Silverlight, Case said. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos...

Tags: nokia, mix, developers, conference

4 March 2008, 8:58

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News To remove the metal shielding and mainboard from the case's bottom half, remove the screw between the two memory card ports. On the front of the PlayStation 2, you'll find two memory card ports, two controller ports, a disc cover open button, the...

Tags: ports, post, chip, cable

1 February 2008, 9:53

FireWire speed set to quadruple

News The S3200 standard will sustain the position of IEEE 1394 as the absolute performance leader in multipurpose I/O ports for consumer applications in computer and CE devices," the 1394 Trade Association's executive director, James Snider, said in a...

Tags: pcs, television, trade, hard drives

18 December 2007, 9:32

Microsoft 'frightened' by police hack

News Getting onto the unsecured wireless network, pinging possible IP addresses of other computers on the network, finding Andy's unpatched computer, scanning open ports for vulnerabilities, using the attack tool to build an exploit, and using the...

Tags: businesses, windows xp, anti, operating system

14 November 2007, 9:30

China reportedly rerouting search traffic

News Ori Elraviv, chief executive of Dragon Ports in Beijing, said he had no problems getting through to the sites. Dragon Ports is a developer of mobile applications. Reports have surfaced that China is redirecting traffic from foreign search engines...

Tags: engine, engines, yahoo, google

22 October 2007, 9:36

Photos: Cracking open the Wii

News Next I exposed the DC power, sensor bar and audio-video ports -- the cooling fan, USB ports and wireless antennae are all visible at this stage. In this view, you can see the GameCube controller and memory card ports revealed.

28 August 2007, 9:48

Xbox 360s get HDMI in US

News Earlier today, Shacknews reported that one of its US-based readers had purchased the freshly cheapened Xbox 360 system (commonly known as the Xbox 360 Pro or Xbox 360 Premium system) and found that the system featured an high-definition multimedia...

9 August 2007, 9:46

Wireless USB gadgets start the onslaught

News Such systems typically have two components: a dongle that plugs into a PC's wired USB port and gives the computer Wireless USB abilities, and a hub with four wired USB ports for connecting current devices.

17 July 2007, 10:07