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...
bing: Connecting people, places and things. This is the Title of the new Bing blog with the latest announcements . Microsoft has announced that it has further tweaked its search engine Bing. The new features include maps that are located at street level as in Google Maps. You can also move about in different directions to get a better view of the locality. To Access the Bing Maps Beta click here . There will also be a Twitter feed available for you to find out the latest happenings on the are your searching. Bing could gain market share once they complete their search and advertising deal with Yahoo. Which will power back-end searches on Yahoo pages. Found on pcmag a cool new visual tour . Go there if you would like to see early visual of the new features. They would however need to tweak the photo and Twitter integration to make it more meaningful. Bing continues to take the fight to Google. One particularly clever app is Photosynth , a photo-management tool from Microsoft that stitc...