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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...
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Ford CEO weighs in on SYNC technology in their cars

We did a post yesterday regarding Ford's SYNC technology that is bringing the internet to the car. All mobile phones applications available to day can be brought into the car. All voice free activated. You can Sync your home computer with the car and let's say your going out to dinner. You Sync your laptop and download the directions via MapQuest get directions and drive. So no input when your sitting inside and driving. Ford CEO Alan Mulally weighs in on December sales and SYNC technology in Ford vehicles.    An original post by Sociolatte
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Ford's social vehicels with Twitter and Apps

Ford Motor Co. plans to bring social networking to most of it's cars by 2015. They are going to unveil the My Ford Touch System at the CES show in las Vegas. Which will feature thumb-wheel controls on the steering wheel, an 8 inch touchscreen on the dashboard for audio, navigation and climate-control functions. It sync in-car function will have a Twitter application. Ford wants to bring the internet into the car. Wow talk about added distractions. Maybe worth the fun though. Pandora and Stitched are also available Sync is a system that was co-created with Microsoft and what it does is let's drives operate their Bluetooth-enabled Smartphones and music players with voice commands and also reads text messages to them apart from an array of other functions. Since it's unveiling 3 years ago Form has sold 1 million vehicles with it. The System will also encourage outside developers to create Apps that can be downloaded free or a small fee. The goal being to get in on the Apps rev...
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