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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...

How to delete Dragon Wars Account from Facebook

There are two things people are worried about. If you simply want to delete notifications coming to your wall from these games you would need to hover over the upper right hand side of the notification when it arrives and the option "Hide" appears. Simply click hide and the notifications will then be stopped. This was you can continue your game and not get the notifications. If you want to delete the game from your application settings you would need to do the following 1. Account 2. Privacy Preferences 3. Click on 'edit your settings' under "Apps and Websites" 4. Beside Apps you use please click on 'edit Settings' 5. Click on 'edit' beside Apps you use 5. Click on Dragon Wars or the (X) mark beside the App 6. Click on Remove 7. Confirm Remove By removing the game completely you will now no more be able to play it. So you need to decide if you want to remove the game application completely or simply hide notifications.  An original post by S...

This week's top-grossing U.S. App Store Games are:

This list is provided by FingerGaming  based solely on sales of each App.  The list shows who is making the most money on the App Store on  as current that day on the iTunes App Store.  1.  Final Fantasy  ($8.99) 2.  Monopoly  ($4.99) 3.  Plants vs. Zombies  ($2.99) 4.  Call of Duty: World at War Zombies  ($9.99) 5.  Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front  ($7.99) 6.  All-in-1 Gamebox  ($0.99) 7.  Bejeweled 2  ($2.99) 8.  Words With Friends  ($2.99) 9.  Final Fantasy II  ($8.99) 10.  Rock Band  ($6.99) PopCap's  Plants vs. Zombies  ends its two-week run as the App Store's biggest-grossing game title this week. Square Enix's port of  Final Fantasy  rises to the top of the charts in its first week of release, as EA's  Monopoly  climbs up to second place after recently being featured in an iPhone television advertisement. Activision's  Call of Duty: World at War Zombies  overtakes Gameloft's recently released  Brothers in Arms 2  in today's sales rankings. Triniti...

Vidoe: ColorBind game for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Colorbind challenges players to join a series of spots in each level by dragging and folding paper strips. The process involves a fair amount of planning and strategy — horizontal strips will be placed under vertical strips, and folded portions may not stack on top of one another.  Colorbind is a relaxing but challenging puzzle game for the iPhone & iPod Touch. Move and fold colorful paper strips by dragging them with your finger.  An original post by Sociolatte

Toyota takes to Twitter to try and repair it's image

It's nice to see such a large and high-profile company taking to Twitter to try and help repair the damage after the negative backlash due to the recall of vehicles with safety issues. Toyota has decide to deal with it and using the services of TweetMeme and Federated Media have launched a channel to follow conversations and what's being said about them in real time. The site is called ToyataConversations . Most of the results being displayed on the site have a leaning towards the positive aspects of the company but the general feel is quiet negative. Shows that the results bing show are a little bit tweaked towards being more positive.  Check out what TweetFeel has to analyze and say about real-time user conversations. It leans towards the negative. Tweet Feel analyzes conversations from twitter and tells you whether it is negative or positive. The good thing though is that large companies are learning the importance of social networking sites and the power behind them. Enoug...

There's a Google Buzz App Directory

Google Buzz the social utility tool all though just out for people to use. Some have not yet received their Buzz invites has not stopped developers from creating Apps for the service. There are no official Apps as yet but a whole list of unofficial Apps that have been coming out. Enough for BuzzAware to start a Buzz Apps directory. There are already 19 Apps in their directory and growing on a daily basis. There is a Mini Buzz Search Engine, Google Buzz Feed a wordpress plugin, BUZZSTATS to generate Buzz charts on your activity and popularity. It goes on with so many developers now building Apps for Buzz. There is also Tw2Buzz to import all you Twitter contacts to Buzz. Not sure if your contacts will like it though. There are Apps for your Mobile, Browser, Web and Desktop An original post by Sociolatte

Google Chrome to get instant translation

Google announced via a blog post that their browser Chrome will get instant translation to facilitate the web's multilingual platform. So now people can watch their favorite Arabic gameshow or read tech blogs written in other languages. The feature works without the need for any plug-in's or extensions. This multilingual tool begins it's work when a users is browsing a webpage that is not on their preferred language settings. A prompt will be displayed by Google asking you if you would like to read this webpage using Google Translate. Here's a demo from Google on how the feature will work An original post by Sociolatte