8th October 2011 Archive

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• Steve Jobs funeral is quiet family affair

  'Small private gathering' on Friday, October 7

  Always an intensely private person in matters involving his personal life, Steve Jobs' final event was also a private affair. According to an unnamed source speaking with The Wall Street Journal, there was to be a small family gathering at an undisclosed time and place on Friday, October 7. Jobs died on Wednesday, October 5. …

  PCs & Chips 8 Oct 00:32

• Google breaks South African embargo on Dalai Lama

  Desmond Tutu will get his birthday hangout

  Google is once again playing politics, using Google+ to bypass the South African government’s refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa to visit their allegedly free and democratic country. His Holiness wanted to visit to celebrate the 80th birthday of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The men are close friends, and both are recipients of …

  Music and Media 8 Oct 01:42

• Panasonic DMR-HW100 HDD DVR

  Review 3D-savvy telly timeshifter

  Panasonic returns to the UK DVR market after an abortive early foray, with a 3D-enabled, media-streaming TV recorder. Rather more convincing than the brand’s first generation model, the DMR-HW100 offers access to the online VieraCast portal, has jukebox functionality and is only slightly bonkers. Panasonic's DMR-HW100 offers …

  reghardware 8 Oct 08:00

• Storage is ending in tiers

  Respect the data hierarchy

  One basic rule of storage is don’t keep items you need to access quickly in hard-to-get-at places: that’s like keeping instant coffee in a safe. You suit the storage type to the type of item you want to store. One size does not fit all, and valuable data should not be stored on slow-speed disk drives along with ordinary data …

  Enterprise Tech 8 Oct 12:00