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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...

Video: What is Google TV

Get more than just shows and movies on your television. Watch videos on the web, browse photos, play games, and more -- all in one seamless experience. Google TV is a software platform that hardware device makers can use. Initially it will be supported by Logitech, Sony and Dish. Right now, there are three places we'll see Google TV: a set top box by Logitech, Sony televisions (and one Blu-ray player) and an upcoming DISH box. It will be also be compatible with your cable or satellite box. Once it starts up it works like Google search with a simple search bar for you to start -  be that through a cable subscription channel, Netflix or somewhere on the web. With Google TV you can combine TV and the web. That is you can watch a streaming video on part of the screen while watching your favorite Soap on the other part. Combines your Phone with your TV.  Thanks to required Google TV hardware specs like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, you'll be able to load a webpage on your Android phone and b...

Google and partners said to be developing Google TV

It has been reported that Google and partners are developing Google TV. Google an Intel have teamed up with Sony to bring out a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. For Google and Intel it is a way of bringing their internet and computing dominance to an arena where they have had little say and for Sony it would be a big competitive and technological advantage. The three giants have also tapped Logitech which makes remote controls and speakers. The new set-top box will make it easy for TV users to navigate popular social networkings sites right from their TV. The software used will be the Android operating system created by Google. A person with knowledge of the Google TV project said that the set-top box technology was sufficiently advanced that Google had begun testing it with Dish Network, one of Google’s longstanding partners in the TV Ads program. This will also give Google the opportunity to further it's reach in TV advertising. Source [ NY Times ] An original po...