EDI TIMES

Cisco announced this afternoon that in 2011 it will be launching an
Android-based tablet, named the Cius, aimed squarely at the business market.

Cisco has always been an enterprise-focused company, and the Cius is its shot at bringing businesses on board the tablet bandwagon. Video conferencing, the product which Cisco is perhaps best known for, is front and center both literally and figuratively – there’s a 720p-capable cameras on the front of the Cius, in addition to the 5 megapixel camera on the back.

In an effort to get the Cius into briefcases and suitcases all over the world, the 7-inch device weighs only 1.15 pounds. The Cius will ship with 3G capability, WiFi, eight-hour battery life, HD audio and video out, and tight integration with all of Cisco’s other business applications as well as the huge Android market.

There’s no word yet on what the device will cost, but it promises to make Android a little more business-friendly and to make getting things done on the road a little easier . Even if it won’t have all the great entertainment of the iPad, maybe that’s a good thing for business users.
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 Aqui la columna de Miguel Ramirez, sobre su sentir con respecto al mundial y en especial al tri.

Miguel Ramírez: Como cada cuatro años – mediotiempo.com

(By: Edgar Estrada)

Llevo ya unos cuantos días que no puedo escribir, no literalmente si no a lo que me refiero es que no tengo la capacidad de expresar lo que vengo pensando en los últimos días de mi vida. (penal a favor de E.U.A.)

Exactamente eso, expresar lo que tantas ganas de tengo de decir y la incapacidad de expresarlo, porque cuando no tienes nada que expresar simplemente no lo haces, pero no sientes en el pecho esa necesidad imperiosa de hablar, de escribir, de gritar.

Entonces, me encuentro aquí, con todas la posibilidades tecnológicas, millones de conceptos agolpados en mi cerebro, una profunda crítica al mundo que vivo, a mi abstracta realidad, tan ajena a todo lo que busco en la vida y en silencio.

Finalmente espero que este momento de pseudo expresión me permita comenzar a elucubrar algunas líneas sobre otras y finalmente abrir la llave a la expresión escrita.

Although, this is a very hard story to tell and to read, I want to make a special mention on the talent of Deborah Sontag from the New York Times for her wrtting and human skills. Is well known The Times has the greatest writers along US but I just wanted to shared this story which writting elements I found delicious.

(By:Deborah Sontag, New York Times)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery voice.
Perhaps the worst part of the whole ordeal, she said, was the place where her kidnappers had chosen to imprison her. That they abducted her was terrifying. That they raped her, repeatedly, was too horrendous to absorb just yet.
But stashing her in the ruins of a home? Making her crawl on her stomach beneath a collapsed slab into a destroyed house where they hid her in a pocket of rubble? That was torture, she said.
“Since I had not slept under any roof since the earthquake, I was so scared I could not breathe,” said the woman, Rose, who requested that her full name be withheld.
Rose’s kidnappers told her brother-in-law, who delivered the ransom of about $2,000, that they would kill her if she talked. She had no intention of doing so. But police investigators showed up at the family house in the Delmas 33 neighborhood shortly after her release, and a reporter from The New York Times happened upon the scene, later accompanying Rose to a women’s health clinic at the family’s request.
Being present when Rose and her family were grappling with the horror of her ordeal offered a firsthand glimpse inside the vulnerability that many Haitians, and particularly women, feel right now. Sleeping in camps, on the street and in yards, many feel themselves at the mercy not only of the elements but of those who prey on others’ misery.
So many cases of rape go unrecorded here that statistics tell only a piece of the story. But existing numbers, from the police or women’s groups, indicate that violence against women has escalated in the months after the Jan. 12 earthquake. Kidnappings are rare, but they, too, have increased, and “the threat is constant,” said Antoine Lerbours, a spokesman for the Haitian National Police.
Malya Villard, director of Kofaviv, a grass-roots organization that supports rape victims, said that the presence of thousands of prisoners who escaped during the earthquake aggravated an environment where insecurity and despair feed on each other.
“It’s an ideal climate for rape,” she said.
Ms. Villard said that Kofaviv’s two dozen case workers, in Port-au-Prince, had counseled 264 victims since the earthquake, triple the number in an equivalent period last year. Arrests for rape are fewer — 169 countrywide through May, but more arrests have been made in the last few months than during the same period last year.
Since the earthquake, international relief groups have expressed concerns about violence against women, especially in the camps under their watch. Poor or nonexistent lighting, unlockable latrines, adjacent men’s and women’s showers and inadequate police protection have all been problems.
Recently, security in eight big camps has improved, with joint Haitian-United Nations police posts or patrols; about 100 Bangladeshi policewomen arrived late last month to deal with gender-based violence at three of them. But there are about 1,200 encampments throughout Haiti, and this city’s battered neighborhoods are largely left to their own defenses, too.
Rose and her relatives recently moved back to their properties when the owner of the property where they were squatting threatened the tent city residents with eviction. Their homes have been marked with a yellow stamp by surveyors, meaning they are damaged but fixable. Rose and her relatives sleep outside them, fitfully. They were scared of the “young thugs in Mafia sunglasses,” Rose’s cousin said, even before Rose’s abduction.
On May 10, Rose, a statuesque woman who is learning to be a beautician, went out to buy some cookies. A police officer whom she knew beckoned her to sit in his unmarked car, she said. She did. Then two men ordered the officer out of the car, taking his gun and driving off with Rose.
The men shoved her into the back, and made her lie face down. She does not know what neighborhood they took her to; it was empty and rubble-filled, and had many destroyed houses. When she protested entering one, they slapped her, she said, and forced her to squeeze through the collapsed entrance. They pushed her into a crawl space beneath a fallen ceiling.
“I was scared mute,” she said. “Only when they raped me did I scream. It hurt.”
Clutching her pelvis as she talked, Rose said that the men had taken turns, raping her seven times. “Or maybe eight,” she said, shutting her eyes.

Read the full story on the following link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/world/americas/24haiti.html?pagewanted=2&ref=todayspaper

(By:ESPN Deportes)

A cuatro días de enfrentar a Argentina, el Guille Franco ya se da por derrotado pues asegura que es imposible detener a Lionel Messi, la única forma es: «Pegándole un tiro».

Y el periodista argentino parado a mi lado hace una cara de sorpresa. Queda en shock al escuchar al naturalizado mexicano.

–Pero Guille, vos sos hombre de Dios– le dice.
«Si. Vamos a pedir a Dios y a orar, pero cómo paras a un crack como él, es imposible es el mejor jugador del mundo. Tiene mil variantes, con diferencia de velocidad, frena, arranca es un grandísimo jugador», asegura.

–¿Te das por vencido antes de enfrentarlo?
Y responde molesto: «Quien te dijo que no podemos».

–Tú. Acabas de decir que no hay forma de pararlo.
«¿Cómo lo paras?» cuestiona entonces el jugador.
Y la respuesta del reportero de «yo no juego, yo escribo», lo deja más molesto. Porque el Guille no acepta críticas.
 
«Yo juego pero esa es la realidad. Eso se ve todos los fines de semana. Vamos a hacer nuestro trabajo y ya veremos cómo frenarlo pero en este caso Messi tiene mucha calidad y es difícil detenerlo. Es un gran jugador», dijo.

Aunque lo tacha del mejor jugador del mundo, tampoco se atreve a decir si es mejor de lo que fue en su momento Diego Armando Maradona.
«Nunca me gustaron las comparaciones. Diego fue lo que fue y Messi es un excelente jugador, el mejor del mundo, pero las comparaciones no me gustan», dijo.

Pese a todos los elogios para Messi, Franco recuerda por un momento que camiseta viste en Sudáfrica y dice que la selección mexicana tendrá oportunidad de revertir la historia de hace cuatro años cuando Argentina los eliminó en la misma instancia en el Mundial de Alemania 2006.
«El fútbol siempre te da revanchas y en este caso el Mundial también y ya nos prepararemos como debe ser», para enfrentar a Argentina.

«Esperemos que esta vez nos toque a nosotros y que Dios incline la balanza hacia nosotros y hagamos un gol como el de Maxi Rodríguez para dejarlos fuera», dijo.
Aunque recalca en que es difícil encontrar puntos débiles en la selección argentina. «Todos son figuras, es una selección muy fuerte y es candidata al título».

Pero no la pone como única favorita al título. «Está entre las mejores, junto con Alemania y por ahí también están Holanda y Brasil que siempre son candidatos a ser campeones».

El Guille no sabe cómo frenar a Messi, pero después de todo recuerda que el domingo vestirá la camiseta verde y remata: «Qué lindo sería lograr el objetivo de estar en cuartos de final».