Se acoge al retiro Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro, líder del pueblo cubano desde la revolución de 1959 anunció su retiro de la vida política en Granma, versión electrónica del periódico oficial del Gobierno Cubano y también el la versión escrita. Castro, de 81 años de edad, había cedido el poder a su hermano Raúl Castro cuando fue sometido a una cirugía intestinal de emergencia hace 19 meses. Cabe preguntarse, ¿cual será el futuro político de la Isla? Según algunas fuentes, se dice que el parlamento cubano, o sea, La Asamblea Nacional, se reunirá el domingo para elegir un presidente, donde se menciona como candidato el actual vicepresidente Carlos Lage Dávila y el actual presidente interino Raúl Castro.

Muerte al HD-DVD!!!

Por si no se dieron cuenta, el HD-DVD format esta oficialmente muerto. Representantes de Toshiba, creadores del formato anunciaron que han cesado further development del format.

Según dicen en su comunicado de prensa: "Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD-DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD-DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand."

Este es el último clavo que le faltaba para enviarlo al purgatorio electrónico junto al betamax, minidisc y el laserdisc. Para lo que preferían ese formato (como yo...), Toshiba anuncio que seguirán vendiendo lo que les queda, pero que se retiraron de la carrera con el rabo entre las piernas (sadly). Bueno, lo que queda por decir es: Felicidades Sony por tener más chavos para comprar la opinión de Hollywood y de la mayoría de los hardware makers! Vida al Blu-ray Disc! Sony fan boys rejoice!

Güajiro!

Güajiro! Esto fue lo que se escucho en la pasada noche de sábado 16 de febrero at Bunkers the Club. La punk/rock/alt. de Hialeah, Florida tomó el stage by storm y demostró su calibre! Con canciones como Guajiro Soy part. 2 y Santa Fé demostraron que tienen un sonido individual y muy afinado. Además de ellos, también estuvieron en escena The Woundz, Nothing Else, Sin Oficio y Los Inoxentes. Chequense las fotos porque los que no fueron, se perdieron de un tremendo show!!!

ps. Al mismo tiempo había un show emo en los frekys pero por lo que puede averiguar, no estuvo muy bueno...

Güajiro en PR at Bunkers the Club

Yo quiero iPhone!

Imagínense mi sorpresa (yeah right...) al enterarme de que en china existen alrededor de 400,000 unlocked iPhones conectados con la compañía China Mobile. Al parecer esta es una explicación de las discrepancia entre AT&T y Apple sobre los números de iPhones vendidos. Todo parece indicar que mas o menos y 25% de las unidades vendidas por Apple son unlocked (liberadas(?)) por los clientes para poderlas utilizar con otros proveedores; y un 10% de estas han ido a parar al mercado chino donde son todo un éxito. Déjenme recordarles que iPhone solo esta disponible oficialmente en Estados Unidos y en Gran Bretaña, luck of the irish?

Hello Kitty!

For all the boys and girls who are fans of Hello Kitty, the company behind all this cuteness, Sanrio, is already in beta of what is suppose to be the Hello Kitty MMORPG. In addition to the regular features of a MMO, Hello Kitty Online will have "...a beautiful designed world where millions of players and NPC (non-playable characters) will live, explore and adventure in a magical world filled with imaginary places and recreations of real ones like Flower Kingdom, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow and many others". World of Warcraft you better watch your back!!!

Death to HD-DVD?

According to the latest news, Netflix, the movie renting giant, will stop renting movies in the HD-DVD format in favor of Sony's Blu-ray Disc. It's not surprising giving the fact that most Hollywood studios have leaned toward Blu-ray lately. Is this the last shovel of dirt of the HD-DVD grave, alongside Betamax? (By the way, I still think that HD-DVD is better...).

Microsoft zune-phone is coming.

Microsoft doesn't like to be number 2; in fact almost no body likes it. In the wake of the truly innovative Apple iPhone, this Monday, a announcement came out of Seattle. Microsoft have acquired Danger, the makers of the T-Mobile Sidekick platform. This makes us wonder if Microsoft is trying to make a comeback into the cellphone game. Is the market ready for the Zune-phone?

Newborns?

My Fake Baby: Living Doll is a TV show/documentary from the British Channel 4. What's interesting about it is that these women, some of then past their 50s, buy this doll so detailed that it looks like the real thing. creepy.

Google Android

In case you didn't know by now, Google is trying to enter the cellphone domain. It is old news that they made a bid for 700MHz spectrum in other to build a new network and also, that they have created a new smartphone platform called Android. Well, here you have the first prototypes from ARM Holdings as show at GSMA Mobile World Congress.

HD-DVD or Blu-ray Disc?

A lot of people have been asking me lately: What's the difference between Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD? Most of the time I try to explain how they work and how it affects people, etc. For the last time (...yeah, right): Both offer 1080p video and high-end audio quality (Dolby digital, THX, 7.1, etc). If you don't own a High Definition TV, forget about it, you're going to waste that money on that type of player. At least you'll need a screen that can support 720p video (1080p been ideal) and at least a component connection (again, HDMI is the ideal). If you only have a old CRT TV, not even with a composite connection you are asking the wrong question. You need to ask if you need to upgrade your TV.
Anyways; the mayor difference, my opinion of course, is the storage capacity. The Blu-ray disc can hold 25GB per layer and the HD-dvd 15GB. Let say that both disk are dual-layer; then, the Blu-ray disc will hold 50GB and the HD-DVD disc 30GB. After that, is also good to know that the less expensive Blu-ray player on the market is the Sony PS3 and the less expensive HD-DVD player is the Xbox360 HD-DVD player add-on. For more details check this link out, and if you're not satisfied check this other link. In the meantime, NO MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT PLEASE.

The Solid State of Things

I don't know if you guys are aware of what's new in the data storage space. Expensive still, but great; the new computer models sporting solid state hard drives had made their appearance in the market. The new "disks", differently to the ones that we are used to see on our machines, are more or less flash memory banks like a "pen or thumb-drive"; but with more capacity and a higher read & write speed. A good example of what can be achieved in term of design with these new hard drives is the MacBook Air. Check out Apple and Sony models with SSDs.