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...
What is Loopt and how does it work? Loopt was one of the first ever location-based services out there. Today we know that Foursquare gets all the hype but keep in mind that they have a little under 2 million members whereas loopt it as of today has over 4 million. Loopt has finally got a boost with the new iOS4 model and this is because, the model loopt was built on was continues location updates. This however was not possible on the iPhone as it did not allow third party Apps to run continuously. The iOS 4 has changed all that and now the loopt model works flawlessly. Loopt also comes preloaded on almost all MetroPCS phones. To get started you need to download the App onto your phone. You can check in to places you are visiting and even more if you stay signed in friends can see you on the move for the next 24 hours with the new iPhone. So you can check-in to places and share you location with your friends. You can add comments and share comments. Share you location across social ...