Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label digitial video player

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...

Roku Adds More channels

Digital video player now adds a bunch of new channels for you to choose from . Roku which launched about a year ago is a digital player that allows viewers to play Roku's digital player was the first to allow netflix costumers to watch tv shows and movies on their TV's. Was praised because of its simplicity an $100 price. The concept of bringing digital based media to the living room is not used and been around for years. With the new channels you can now view pics from both flickr and Facebook, internet radio from Pandora, Web videos and podcasts from Revision3 and blip.tv. In all customer will be able to access 10 new channels without having to pay anything extra. This keeps increasing the way social media gadgets grow in popularity and usability. An original post by Sociolatte