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...
To keep it simple Sony plans to start a store what wouldent just sell, digital music, movies and books. They will try to connect users with each other as reported by an article in BusinessWeek . This service will be called Sony Online Service. So as soon as you buy a TV or a music player. Sony plans to register the user for this service. Which is aimed at creating brand loyalty and more communication within a large network of Sony fans. So once you register for the service it would be easy for you to share the videos you photos with your friends across the network. They might also be live streaming. These are the kinds of social features they plan to have across the network. Kind of like an iTunes store but with more social features bringing in a community feel. There will be a button to tell you what your friends are watching. With its huge network of 33 million registered users sony sells downloadable games, TV Shows and Movies. Future plans include allowing other websites also onto ...