After more than five years of austerity and painful reform, Ireland‘s prime minister, Enda Kenny, rightly painted the country’s graduation on Thursday from the IMF/EU bailout as a triumph.

Meanwhile, the ECB is about to start combing through the books of the eurozone’s banks – before any clear answer will emerge about who will fill any holes. And that is at the same time as the region’s economies slide towards deflation, which is toxic for heavily indebted countries. It is too soon to declare that permanent peace has broken out in eurozone financial markets.

Ireland may have a very creditable €20bn (£16.7bn) in the bank, but that’s the kind of sum that could quickly evaporate in the event of a renewed market crisis, which need not be of Ireland’s making for the country to still be hit by the fallout.

The decision on Thursday may come to be remembered as the beginning of the end of the crisis – but the Irish will need plenty of luck still.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sought Monday to reassure Asian business and political leaders that his country only aspires to peace and that he is confident its economic growth will remain robust despite a recent slowdown.

China’s growth and other indicators are within reasonable expectations, Xi told a business conference on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum.

“I want to emphasize that I am fully confident about the future of China,” Xi said in a keynote address at the CEO conference. “I am deeply convinced the Chinese economy will sustain its sound growth.”

Speaking with numerous poetic and rhetorical flourishes, Xi cut a relatively genial figure compared with his dour predecessor Hu Jintao, who he succeeded in March as the top leader of the world’s most populous country and second-largest economy.

（from： cbc.ca）

An auto analyst is warning that Canadian auto production could decrease by as much as 25 per cent by 2020.

Auto production in Canada is projected to fall from 2.454 million vehicles to 1.823 million, according to Joe MacCabe, president of auto consulting company Automotive Compass. That’s a loss of 600,000 units.

“A lot of the manufacturing in Canada has shared manufacturing in other places in NAFTA. As the exchange rate punishes labour costs in Canada … it’s more cost feasible for some manufactures to move their operations to build the same exact vehicle on the same exact platform in a less costly area,” McCabe told CBC News on Monday.

MacCabe said Canadian manufacturing still has a lot of benefits, including efficiency and productivity.

“But the exchange [rate] is overshadowing. The strong dollar is punishing the ability to produce there,” he said from his offices in Pennsylvania.

MacCabe said “we’ll see a lot of business south of the Ohio border.”

Six years after the first iPhone launched, Apple has finally made some major changes to  the look and feel of its mobile operating system. Most of these improvements — including  the new Notification Center, quick multitasking and WiFi direct transfers — have been available on Android devices for years. So, if you wanted to transfer files quickly between phones, you could have done that just by tapping them together as long ago as 2011 . If you wanted to move quickly and easily between open  apps, Android has provided a really great task-switching menu since version 4.0.

Perhaps sometime in 2014, Apple will get around to providing support for common Android features from 2012, such as NFC, floating windows and custom keyboards. Fortunately,  there’s no need to wait for Tim Cook and crew to play catch-up. Here are 10 ways Android beats iOS 7 today.

It seems android mock almost everything new in apple’s. As we can see, once apple  published the new product with its new ios system. After a few weeks, when we update   the android system, the similar operating way is found. I am very confused the patent in apple. Why apple can allow othersto operate the competitive system because they used  the ideas in apple.

As Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) and Sony Corp. (6758) stumble, the companies that supply their factories have suffered. Now, those suppliers are finding relief from a new quarter: Chinese brands with growing appeal to domestic buyers.

Now, turn our sight to the Nokia company.

The first one might be Nokia moved too slowly. What does it mean? Nokia was a pioneer in the smartphone market, literally introducing consumers to the smartphone with its initial Symbian Series 60 devices in 2002. But in 2007, Apple introduced its iPhone. With its full touchscreen and app-based operating systemNokia should take some actiions to improve but not insist its old and non-compartive os for a long time.

Then, Android paif off for samsung and windows phone has not. ‪Spektor said. Nokia, on the other hand, spent its time focusing on Symbian until the company’s recent partnership with Microsoft. But Nokia’s flagship Lumia Windows Phones haven’t paid off yet.

Third, Nokia didn’t have the panache anymore. Nokia didn’t market itself as an innovator, and frankly, it hasn’t been doing much innovating anyway. At least not until it entered the Windows Phone space.

Last, execution is the key. Unlike other manufacturers, Samsung has the built-in efficiency of being a vertical company, making their own display, processors. In the meantime, however, Nokia is going to go through some rough patches

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