Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

In the last 14 years, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) has become the standard interface to connect devices to a computer. Whether it’s an external hard drive, a camera, the mouse, a printer, or a ...

The Universal Serial Bus, or USB for short, was introduced in 1996 as a solution by technology giants like Microsoft and IBM. The idea was to make connecting hardware to computers less of a hassle and ...

Intel will tell you its new high-speed interconnect technology, Thunderbolt, is not in competition with Universal Serial Bus (USB), the ubiquitous standard for connecting computers with other devices.

Nothing is more confusing in the tech world than USB. First, there's understanding every USB port symbol and icon. Some USB ports are orange and some USB ports have lightning bolts. That's before we ...

USB 3.0 is coming, and the hour approaches when the computer and electronics industries can sink their collective teeth into a new, faster USB interface for the first time in ten years. USB 2.0, with ...

Today we're looking at a rather unique product. For many years notebook manufactures have offered docking stations for their notebook products that make it easier to move from the office or the road ...

USB 3.0 was launched back in 2008. This new edition has more functions and better features included in the port. Although it looks just like a simple data cable port, it actually makes a lot more ...

Early adoption of USB 3.0 began in 2010, and more than 70 million USB 3.0 host chips shipped in 2011. Now, key USB software and systems providers are shipping high volumes of products with USB 3.0.

In a USB function – an embedded device with a USB interface – there is a USB peripheral controller chip. As shown in Figure 2, this chip has two key functions: it interfaces to the USB system ...

This story has been updated. When Don Stovicek set out to buy a fast USB 3.0 flash drive, he discovered that the advertised speeds fell well below even USB 2.0’s official capabilities. The now-aging ...