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...
Microsoft has announced an updated windows mobile application for its Bing search engine. The application provides voice recognition for processing voice commanded searches . "which now lets you search by voice, browse maps by subcategories such as distance, get directions with a single click, and save searches and favorites to your phone's home screen ." The new Windows Mobile Bing search client can be downloaded by visiting discoverbing.com/mobile on a PC or by browsing to m.bing.com on a Windows Mobile. The new feature allows Bing maps to zoom in and around. Rotate 360 degrees in one spot with street level view. "The difference is that the Google Mobile App can be downloaded onto phones running Android (obviously) and Windows Mobile, along with BlackBerrys, iPhones and Nokia S60 devices. The Bing application, however, can only be downloaded onto Windows Mobile-powered phones , as well as BlackBerrys and Sidekick devices. The launch is a result of years o...