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...
Carrier IQ has caused quiet a stir on the web lately and this is after a researcher named Trevor Eckhart discovered that the program was able to track all that you do and transmit the same to mobile carriers. According to him the program is able to track keystrokes, battery life, Apps and a host of other things that SmartPhone users do. What is Carrier IQ: Carrier IQ is a software company located in Mountain View, California. It provides mobile analytics to the wireless industry. Why is has caused a stir: Carrier IQ has been recording users information like geo-location and transmitting the same without allowing users to opt-out. Recording detailed keystrokes of users and transmitting the same is actually against the law. With this is mind you might want to turn off or disable Carrier IQ on your iPhone and you can do this in four easy steps. This will take care of the problem and your data will not be transmitted to mobile carriers. To turn off or disable carrier IQ on the iPhone ...