At first, Chris Pollock‘s hack to connect his iPhone to a computer’s serial port seems like a “because I can” sort of project, but in reality, it appears that it’s actually incredibly useful. Why?

Handheld and notebook computers are marvels of miniaturization, but there's a price - the selection of built-in expansion ports is usually just as tiny. Socket Communications Inc. has come to the ...

The Molex High Speed Serial Data Connector 2 family may provide the physical link you need for fast serial protocols, such as Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, or Gigabit Ethernet (Picture). It includes a ...

An Aussie network engineer has developed a serial cable connector that can give access to a secret kernel debugger hidden within Apple iOS. The debugger revealed by researcher Stefan Esser at the ...

Etters, Pa. — FCI has developed a broad offering of 29-position, vertical backplane receptacle connectors for the new high-speed, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drive (HDD) interface that is ...

I have a Palm, and I use it with a laptop that has no serial port. Now, I use the IR port to sync the data, but it is giving me all sorts of headaches lately.<br>The craddle I have only has a serial ...

N-TRON Corporation, a global leader in Industrial Networking, introduced six new products today designed for legacy serial communications in industrial environments. With this release, N-TRON has ...

As legacy computing projects upgrade from VME and CompactPCI systems, or as new projects arise, an important choice is presented: “which direction do we go?” For open standard embedded computing, the ...