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...
Skype has announced their all new App that allows users to make and receive calls over 3G in the US. In addition the calls made from Skype to Skype now come with new CD quality sound on your iPhone 3GS and 2nd generation iPod Touch and onwards. The service will remain free till the end of 2010 after which a small fee will be charged. Skype-to-Skpye over WIFI will remain free. And you can make calls to landlines and mobiles at Skype's incredibly free rates. The new version App features enhanced quality sound, which will help you choose the best moment to call. The App is speedier, giving you rapid access to the dial pad from the home screen. All of this making it easier for you to get from click to chatter. The updated app is available now in the App Store – download it now . An original post by Sociolatte