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...
Just 3% of iPhone customers account for 40% of data traffic on it's network, the company says. At&T plans to introduce a pricing systems that discourages users from using video and audio streaming. "In a presentation to investors Wednesday, AT&T's head of consumer services , Ralph de la Vega, said that just 3% of iPhone users generate 40% of the data traffic on AT&T's cellphone network." SmartPhone users pay a monthy fixed rental which allows then unlimited data usage. As such with the heavy amount of straming. The network has gotten a bit choked causing lackluster performance in high traffic areas like New York City, San Francisco and other major networks. Mr. de la Vega made several company announcements, including a network upgrade in three cities and that AT&T expects to sign its two millionth U-verse subscriber today. He also said AT&T will provide connectivity for the Interead Cooler , an e-reader that will compete with Amazon’s Kindle a...