Archive for July 28th, 2009
Fallece el actor Beto ‘El Boticario’
Roberto Ramírez Garza, mejor conocido como Beto “El Boticario”, murió hoy en el hospital Santaelena de la Ciudad de México, donde permanecía desde hace varias semanas.
El comediante de La Carabina de Ambrosio fue internado debido a varias complicaciones en el aparato respiratorio y tuvo que ser conectado a un respirador artificial debido a su condición.
En junio pasado ingresó al nosocomio por primera vez, pero en aquella ocasión fue por su diabetes, posteriormente regresó debido a una infección pulmonar y, a pesar de los pronósticos optimistas de sus doctores, no pudo ganar la batalla contra la enfermedad.
Garza participó en innumerables cintas, pero fue en La Carabina de Ambrosio donde se dio a conocer. También apareció en telenovelas como Gotita de Amor, La Dueña y Azul.
Además de sus apariciones en televisión, el comediante nacido en Monterrey, actuó en películas como Suicídate mi Amor, El Tesoro del Rey Salomón y Tin Tán, El Hombre Mono.
What Will be the Killer Feature of an Apple Tablet?
From MacRumors.com
With the growing evidence that Apple will be releasing some sort of Apple Tablet in the next 3-6 months, analysts and writers have started speculating about the potential success or failure of such a device.
Both Gizmodo and PC World have taken the time to detail why they think that such a product will be a flop. John Gruber, however, points out that these people are incorrectly assuming that such a device would mimic present day tablets and offer no compelling new features.
This is not the first time that Apple has been close to releasing a tablet device. Back in 2003, the evidence for a Mac Tablet had reached similarly high levels, but for whatever reason, Apple ultimately decided not to release that device. We’ve always felt that the reason has been more a marketing decision than a technical one. Until Apple comes up with that ‘killer feature’ for a tablet, we don’t believe that Apple would commit to the market. Apple has always said that they won’t pursue a product line unless they feel they can offer something new and compelling. While these promises could simply be dismissed as marketing propoganda, it seems clear that Apple’s entries into the MP3 and mobile phone markets have met those standards.
Arguably, the iPhone’s killer feature on launch was its excellent mobile web browser. This feature was poached from another internal Apple tablet project called ‘Safari Pad’. Steve Jobs is said to have recognized its value and morphed it into what became the iPhone.
So the question remains, what added value has Apple decided it can provide in a tablet device that its competitors have been unable to offer? Are interactive album booklets alone compelling enough to launch this new device? Or have they finally decided to deploy more advanced multi-touch on a larger screen?
(Via MacRumors)
Foxconn Building Apple Tablet for September or October Launch?
From Gizmodo.com
Taiwanese paper Apple Daily reports than Hon Hai Precision Industry—aka Foxconn—is building the Apple tablet using previously rumored 10-inchish screens from WinTek and a battery from Dynapack, for launch in September or October.
AppleInsider says that Dow Jones carried the report as well, though it comes from a paper less well-known than say, DigiTimes. The September or October launch date Apple Daily reports is slightly more aggressive and definite in its time table than the Financial Times report that came out this weekend, which simply said that Apple ‘racing to offer a portable, full-featured, tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season.’
A morbid thought, but if Foxconn is building the tablet, what if the tablet was the prototype Sun Danyong lost before he was driven to suicide? They wouldn’t say he lost the mythical Apple tablet, after all.
AppleInsider still thinks it’s coming in 2010, for what it’s worth. We still think never trust rumors.
(Via Gizmodo)
How an Apple Tablet Could Pit iTunes Against Amazon.com
From Wired.com
With rumors piling up about a forthcoming Apple tablet, it appears more and more likely that such a device will emerge soon.
But what’s still unclear is how this gadget will set itself apart from Apple’s multimedia-savvy product line, including the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the scores of failed tablet PCs that have come and gone. Judging from the company’s past moves, we’re betting that Apple’s tablet will be a media-centric device, focused — at least in part — on shaking up the publishing industry.
Apple is already prepared to blow Amazon and other e-book makers out of the water with one key weapon: iTunes. Having served more than 6 billion songs to date, the iTunes Store has flipped the music industry on its head. It also turned mobile software into a lucrative industry, as proven by the booming success of the iPhone’s App Store, which recently surpassed 1.5 billion downloads. Apple has yet to enter the e-book market, and making books as easy to download as music and iPhone apps is the logical next step.
A President Kicked Out, but Not Alone in Defiance – NYTimes.com
From the New York Times
OCOTAL, Nicaragua — When Ángel Hsiky, a farm worker, heard his ousted president’s call for supporters to help him return to Honduras, he threw a change of clothes in a knapsack, kissed his wife and 9-month-old boy goodbye and headed to the Nicaraguan border.
Defying a military-enforced curfew, Mr. Hsiky and a caravan of about 200 supporters of the deposed Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, crossed precipitous hillsides covered with coffee plantations and dense cloud forest, skirting military roadblocks by taking dirt back roads. When that became impossible, the group abandoned cars and trucks and walked through mud and rain to the mountain-ringed outpost of Las Manos, Nicaragua.
‘We’ve come to bring our president back home,’ said Mr. Hsiky, 23, who is from Mr. Zelaya’s Olancho Province in central Honduras.
Since Mr. Zelaya arrived here on Friday to taunt the de facto government that exiled him a month ago, hundreds of Hondurans have answered his call to join him just across the border in Nicaragua.
Arriving here in mud-caked jeans and ripped shirts, after sleeping on soaked mountaintops and hiding among the coffee plants from patrolling helicopters, they have set up camps in the border towns of Las Manos and Ocotal.