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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 Use Google applications via SMS text message



This is one cool mobile app feature from Google. There are a number of Google services that you can now use on your phone via SMS text messages. The cool part of this whole thing is that you don't need a smartphone, neither do you need one of the new phones being sold these days. All of this works over on an old feature phone and you can now get your Grandma to use Google on her feature phone. The only condition is that your phone should be able to handle SMS and be able to receive and send texts.


Google SMS Applicaitons: How does it work
1. Google SMS search: to get updates on your favorite topics each time there is something newsworthy
2. Calendar SMS: to check your calendar while you're on the go
3. Blogger SMS: Update your blogger blog even when you're not in front of a PC. Update from your phone.
4. Gmail SMS: to sms or text to your Gmail contacts while you're on the move.
5. Google Voice SMS: send and receive SMS text messages through Google Voice.


How to get started using Google SMS applications on your phone
To signup for the service please click this link http://www.google.com/mobile/sms/ check for your country and then enter your cell phone number. Once registered you can then begin to use Google SMS text message service on your Mobile Phone. 




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