Japan, China look to trade talks, debt buys (Reuters)

BEIJING (Reuters) ? Japan and China agreed to start formal talks early next year on a free trade pact that would also include South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Sunday after talks that showed the deepening bonds between Asia's two biggest economies.

Japan also said it was looking to buy Chinese treasury debt, and the two governments agreed to enhance financial cooperation.

"On a free trade agreement among Japan, China and South Korea, we've made a substantial progress for an early start of negotiations," Noda told reporters after his meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao.

China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, said on its website (www.pbc.gov.cn) that the two leaders agreed to strengthen bilateral financial market cooperation and "encourage the use of the renminbi and Japanese yen in international trade transactions between the two countries."

The renminbi is another name for China's yuan currency.

The trade talks announcement builds on an agreement between the three countries last month also to seek a trilateral investment treaty and finish studies on the proposed free trade agreement by the end of December so that they could start formal negotiations on the trade pact.

"China is willing to closely coordinate with Japan to promote our two countries' monetary and financial development, and to accelerate progress of the China-Japan-Republic of Korea free-trade zone and East Asian financial cooperation," Wen told Noda at the meeting, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry's official website (www.mfa.gov.cn).

But the regional trade negotiations could also compete for attention with Washington's push for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after Japan said last month it wants to join in the talks over the U.S. proposal.

CLOSER ECONOMIC TIES

Despite sometimes rancorous political ties between the two neighbors, Japan's economic fortunes are increasingly tied to China's economic growth and consumer demand.

China and Japan are also the world's first and second-biggest holders of foreign reserves. Wen told Noda that closer economic ties were in both countries' interests.

"The deep-seated consequences of the current international financial crisis continue to spread, and the complexity and severity of global and world developments have exceeded our expectations," Wen said.

"China and Japan both have the need and conditions to join hands more closely to respond to challenges and deepen mutually beneficial strategic relations."

China has been Japan's biggest trading partner since 2009.

In 2010, trade between the two nations grew by 22.3 percent compared to levels in 2009, reaching 26.5 trillion yen ($339.3 billion), according to the Japan External Trade Organization.

In a statement issued after the two leaders' meeting, the Japanese government said it would seek to buy Chinese government bonds -- a tentative step toward diversification of Tokyo's large foreign exchange reserves that are believed to be mostly held in dollars.

China central bank said the two governments agreed to support Japanese businesses issuing yuan bonds in Tokyo and other markets outside of China, and Japan Bank for International Cooperation would begin a pilot scheme for issuing yuan-denominated bonds in mainland China.

The People's Bank of China also said it will support Japan in using the yuan for direct investment in China.

But Japanese officials have stressed that Japan's trust in dollar assets remains unshaken, and the scale of the planned purchase of Chinese government bonds will be small.

Wen and Noda also agreed to set up a framework to discuss maritime issues after diplomatic ties deteriorated sharply last year following Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain near disputed isles in the East China Sea.

Bilateral meetings attended by vice ministers and senior officials from relevant ministries will be held periodically to exchange views, in an effort to prevent a similar row from happening.

"On maritime matters, we have successfully set up a channel to solve problems through multi-layered dialogue," Noda told reporters.

(Additional reporting by Koh Gui Qing; Writing by Chris Buckley; Editing by Yoko Nishikawa)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111225/bs_nm/us_china_japan_korea

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U.S. says China not currency manipulator

Some U.S. politicians have argued that China has gained an unfair competitive edge in global markets by keeping the yuan artificially low to boost exports.

But the Treasury again shied away from taking the more serious step of labeling China a currency manipulator, saying the statutes covering such a designation "have not been met with respect to China."

The value of the yuan, which Beijing manages closely, has risen by 4 percent against the dollar this year and 7.7 percent since China dropped a firm peg against the greenback in June 2010. The appreciation, however, has been too slow in the eyes of the United States.

"The movement of the (yuan) to date is insufficient," the Treasury said in a statement following the release of its semi-annual report to Congress on international economic and exchange rate policies.

"Treasury will closely monitor the pace of appreciation and press for policy changes that yield greater exchange rate flexibility, a level playing field, and a sustained shift to domestic demand-led growth."

The Peterson Institute for International Economics recently estimated the yuan was undervalued by 24 percent against the dollar, down from 28 percent earlier in the year. It attributed the change to both Beijing's policy of gradual currency appreciation and higher Chinese inflation.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said the law that requires the administration to determine whether U.S. trade partners are deliberately undervaluing their currencies is a poor tool to push Beijing on the yuan.

Instead, the United States has tried to use international economic fora, such as the Group of 20 leading nations and the International Monetary Fund, to ramp up pressure on Beijing to move more quickly to a more-flexible currency.

The Treasury Department has not labeled country a currency manipulator since July 1994, when it cited China. A designation would require the United States to step up negotiations with Beijing on the yuan's value.

(Editing by Neil Stempleman and Leslie Adler)

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20111227/usays-china-not-currency-manipulator.htm

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Unbale to configure exchange server mails on to my Galaxy S2

Hi!

I am using a new Galaxy S2 but unable to configure my exchange server mails on to it. Gmail though works perfectly. I have also updated the firmware to the latest version which is available.

I entered my configuration, consisting of

?email address - abc@xyz.com
?Domain: user name - jkl\qwerts. The "username" is the same which i use to log onto my office laptop.
?password - *********
?Exchange server - mail.xyz.com - this is the same that i type on the web browser to access my mails on the internet
?and a tick in the 2 SSL boxes

but kept getting error messages like:

Setup could not finish
Unable to connect Server

Would really appreciate if somebody can kindly please help.

I was earlier using Blackberry and had no issue accessing my mails through the OWA route.

Regards,

Saugata

Source: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f145/unbale-to-configure-exchange-server-mails-on-to-my-galaxy-s2-83638-new/

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5 Simple (But Hidden!) Tricks All The New iPhone/iPad Owners Should Know

Posted by admin in Gadgets on Dec 27th, 2011 | no responses

Once upon a time, the iPhone was a simple thing. You flipped it on, slid the unlock switch, and what you saw was what you got. Since then, things have gotten a bit more? layered. That?s not to say they?ve gotten any harder to use; iOS just has a ridiculous number of hidden bonus features now that are in no way immediately obvious to the untrained eye. Given that yesterday was Christmas, I?d wager that the number of untrained eyes out there is at an all-time high. If you consider yourself something of an iOS expert, this list isn?t for you. If the terms ?jailbreak? and ?rooting? have any sort of secondary, technical connotation to you, you can almost certainly skip right over this. This one?s for the curious newbie; the moms, pops, and younger siblings of the world; the Android converts who may be feeling a bit out of place. It?s a collection of things I?m regularly surprised to find that other iOS device owners don?t know. If it?s not for you, you almost certainly know someone who it is for. The App Switcher: You?re blasting around in Jetpack Joyride when your better half asks you to find a proper eggnog recipe. What?s the quickest way to get to Safari? You could head back to the homescreen like a chump ? but if you?ve had Safari open recently, there?s a waaaay speedier route: Double tap the home button. Tada! Meet the App Switcher. The first page of the app switcher shows your most recently opened apps. Scrolling to the right will take you back even further in your app history. As one of the most requested features leading up to its introduction in iOS 4, it blows my mind how often I meet long-time iOS owners who have absolutely no idea the App Switcher exists. Closing Broken Apps: Apps break. It happens. Alas, due to the way iOS freezes/unfreezes apps rather than actually closing them (thus allowing quick-switching between running apps), you?ll occasionally find yourself with an app that you just can?t seem to un-break. What should you do? You?ll need to reset your device, right? Naaaah. Go to the homescreen. Double tap the home button (to bring up the App Switcher). Find the icon for the app you need to close and hold your finger on it for a second or two. Tap the ? that shows up next to it. Relaunch the app from the homescreen, and it?ll be just like opening it up on a freshly reset device. ( Note: With very few exceptions (and unlike what you may be used to with your ol? laptop) you never need to manually close iOS apps to make your device ?run better?. Thanks to the aforementioned freezing/unfreezing process, any app that you?re not actively using has very little effect on your device?s performance.) The Hidden App Switcher Buttons: The App Switcher is something of a swiss army knife. It switches! It closes! It slices! It dices! Beyond the aforementioned, the App Switcher has one more neat trick: a sort-of-hidden bonus page with myriad one-click shortcuts. On the iPhone, it?ll let you lock your screen orientation, pause/play/go back/skip

tracks in whatever app is currently playing music (or immediately jump right into that application, instead.) On the iPad, it?ll do all of the aforementioned as well as let you adjust the volume and display brightness. To find it: double tap the home button to bring up the App Switcher ? but rather than swiping to the left to see more apps, swipe to the right from the first page. The Notifications Center: This is another one that Apple doesn?t seem to be explaining well enough, as I?ve met more than my fair share of long-time iPhone owners who go wide-eyed when they first see it used. For anyone coming from Android, the mechanism is pretty much second nature (Apple essentially cloned the feature wholesale.) Beginning with iOS 5, iOS keeps a running list of your recent notifications so that you can easily jump to any app that needs your attention. To bring down the notifications drawer, simply swipe down from the very top of the display. Waiting there will be all of your recent (unread) texts, any messages that your applications have queued up, and a few configurable widgets (weather, stocks, etc.) You can adjust what shows up in this drawer in Settings > Notifications. The Camera Shortcut: We?ve all been there: that once in a lifetime moment is happening right before your eyes, and your only means of capturing it is with your phone?s camera. By the time you get it out of your pocket, unlock it, get to the homescreen, launch the camera app, and wait for the camera to boot up, the moment is gone. Opportunity lost, and now everyone is mad at you. As of iOS 5, you can access the camera right from the lockscreen (you don?t even have to unlock it! Don?t worry, though: you can?t access your older photos this way. Your booty pics are safe.) To quick-jump to the camera: from the lock screen (the screen with the ?Slide to unlock? bar), double tap the home button. You?ll see music controls pop up on top, while a camera icon appears directly beside the unlock bar. Tap that, and you?re immediately inside the camera. (Note: this only seems to work on the iPhone and camera-enabled iPod Touches. It?s a no go on iPad.) Got any more easy, kinda-hidden tricks that new iOS device owners should know? Drop it in a comment below. Bonus Tricks: To take a screenshot in any app, press the home and power button simultaneously for just a second. The photo will be stored in your camera roll. Holding the buttons too long will reset your device, so stop once the display flashes. In nearly all applications, you can scroll to the top of long pages (such as long websites, or long emails) by tapping the status bar (read: the bar with the clock.) Use iCloud. Seriously. It takes a second or two to set up (2/3 people I?ve watched setup iPhones recently skipped it), but it?s absolutely worth it if only for the photo/contact backup.

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5 Simple (But Hidden!) Tricks All The New iPhone/iPad Owners Should Know

Posted by admin in Gadgets on Dec 27th, 2011 | no responses

Once upon a time, the iPhone was a simple thing. You flipped it on, slid the unlock switch, and what you saw was what you got. Since then, things have gotten a bit more? layered. That?s not to say they?ve gotten any harder to use; iOS just has a ridiculous number of hidden bonus features now that are in no way immediately obvious to the untrained eye. Given that yesterday was Christmas, I?d wager that the number of untrained eyes out there is at an all-time high. If you consider yourself something of an iOS expert, this list isn?t for you. If the terms ?jailbreak? and ?rooting? have any sort of secondary, technical connotation to you, you can almost certainly skip right over this. This one?s for the curious newbie; the moms, pops, and younger siblings of the world; the Android converts who may be feeling a bit out of place. It?s a collection of things I?m regularly surprised to find that other iOS device owners don?t know. If it?s not for you, you almost certainly know someone who it is for. The App Switcher: You?re blasting around in Jetpack Joyride when your better half asks you to find a proper eggnog recipe. What?s the quickest way to get to Safari? You could head back to the homescreen like a chump ? but if you?ve had Safari open recently, there?s a waaaay speedier route: Double tap the home button. Tada! Meet the App Switcher. The first page of the app switcher shows your most recently opened apps. Scrolling to the right will take you back even further in your app history. As one of the most requested features leading up to its introduction in iOS 4, it blows my mind how often I meet long-time iOS owners who have absolutely no idea the App Switcher exists. Closing Broken Apps: Apps break. It happens. Alas, due to the way iOS freezes/unfreezes apps rather than actually closing them (thus allowing quick-switching between running apps), you?ll occasionally find yourself with an app that you just can?t seem to un-break. What should you do? You?ll need to reset your device, right? Naaaah. Go to the homescreen. Double tap the home button (to bring up the App Switcher). Find the icon for the app you need to close and hold your finger on it for a second or two. Tap the ? that shows up next to it. Relaunch the app from the homescreen, and it?ll be just like opening it up on a freshly reset device. ( Note: With very few exceptions (and unlike what you may be used to with your ol? laptop) you never need to manually close iOS apps to make your device ?run better?. Thanks to the aforementioned freezing/unfreezing process, any app that you?re not actively using has very little effect on your device?s performance.) The Hidden App Switcher Buttons: The App Switcher is something of a swiss army knife. It switches! It closes! It slices! It dices! Beyond the aforementioned, the App Switcher has one more neat trick: a sort-of-hidden bonus page with myriad one-click shortcuts. On the iPhone, it?ll let you lock your screen orientation, pause/play/go back/skip

tracks in whatever app is currently playing music (or immediately jump right into that application, instead.) On the iPad, it?ll do all of the aforementioned as well as let you adjust the volume and display brightness. To find it: double tap the home button to bring up the App Switcher ? but rather than swiping to the left to see more apps, swipe to the right from the first page. The Notifications Center: This is another one that Apple doesn?t seem to be explaining well enough, as I?ve met more than my fair share of long-time iPhone owners who go wide-eyed when they first see it used. For anyone coming from Android, the mechanism is pretty much second nature (Apple essentially cloned the feature wholesale.) Beginning with iOS 5, iOS keeps a running list of your recent notifications so that you can easily jump to any app that needs your attention. To bring down the notifications drawer, simply swipe down from the very top of the display. Waiting there will be all of your recent (unread) texts, any messages that your applications have queued up, and a few configurable widgets (weather, stocks, etc.) You can adjust what shows up in this drawer in Settings > Notifications. The Camera Shortcut: We?ve all been there: that once in a lifetime moment is happening right before your eyes, and your only means of capturing it is with your phone?s camera. By the time you get it out of your pocket, unlock it, get to the homescreen, launch the camera app, and wait for the camera to boot up, the moment is gone. Opportunity lost, and now everyone is mad at you. As of iOS 5, you can access the camera right from the lockscreen (you don?t even have to unlock it! Don?t worry, though: you can?t access your older photos this way. Your booty pics are safe.) To quick-jump to the camera: from the lock screen (the screen with the ?Slide to unlock? bar), double tap the home button. You?ll see music controls pop up on top, while a camera icon appears directly beside the unlock bar. Tap that, and you?re immediately inside the camera. (Note: this only seems to work on the iPhone and camera-enabled iPod Touches. It?s a no go on iPad.) Got any more easy, kinda-hidden tricks that new iOS device owners should know? Drop it in a comment below. Bonus Tricks: To take a screenshot in any app, press the home and power button simultaneously for just a second. The photo will be stored in your camera roll. Holding the buttons too long will reset your device, so stop once the display flashes. In nearly all applications, you can scroll to the top of long pages (such as long websites, or long emails) by tapping the status bar (read: the bar with the clock.) Use iCloud. Seriously. It takes a second or two to set up (2/3 people I?ve watched setup iPhones recently skipped it), but it?s absolutely worth it if only for the photo/contact backup.

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Sony getting out of flat-panel TV venture with Samsung

TOKYO ? In a bid to streamline its money-losing television business, Sony said Monday it would sell its stake in its flat-panel joint venture with Samsung Electronics, letting go of more of its production capacity at a time when outsourcing has become the norm in the world of manufacturing.

Sony, the Tokyo-based technology and entertainment giant, which makes the Bravia liquid-crystal display televisions, said in a statement that it would sell its nearly 50 percent stake in the jointly owned manufacturer, S-LCD, to Samsung of South Korea for 1.08 trillion won, or $939 million.

Sony's exit from the joint venture, set up in Tanjeong, South Korea, in April 2004, would allow it to switch to less expensive outsourcing options that might allow it to resuscitate its struggling TV business. The only other LCD panels Sony manufactures are at its joint venture with Sharp, in which Sony owns a 7 percent stake.

Cutthroat competition in a peaking market is squeezing margins for TV manufacturers, especially Sony, which analysts have long criticized for high production costs.

Source: http://postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1480194

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Five Predictions For Online Video In 2012

In 2011, the long-promised ubiquity of video?on-demand anytime, anywhere?started to become a reality, driven by mobile (smart phones, tablets).? While this may seem obvious, remember, it was not so long ago (a couple years, really) that most doubted that consumers would ever watch anything other than short-form YouTube-like video clips on the small screen.? Consumers are now beginning to watch premium long-form video (TV, motion picture content) on their most important screen on a massive scale, despite the frequent paucity of compelling content offered by service providers.? Yet, we are still in the early innings of this video revolution?so, we truly haven?t seen anything yet.? With this in mind, here are my predicted ?big stories? for video in the coming year:

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National Audubon Society Engages With Birders on Facebook

Think of web engagement and birds, and you're usually talking about firing them at shaky towers of pigs. But the National Audubon Society looked at two factors ? the immense popularity of ?Angry Birds? and the launch of the bird-watching-themed movie ?The Big Year? from 20th Century Fox ? and saw recruitment potential.

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That potential took concrete form in October as ?Birding the Net,? a Facebook-based game that challenged players to spot dozens of different bird species that appeared at various sites around the Internet.

Players were asked to like Audubon's Facebook page and then head out to the Internet to ?spot? some 30 varieties of birds as they flitted across or perched inside some 100 sites, including those for AOL, Slate and The Discovery Channel. Clicking on those birds took users back to the Audubon Facebook page, where they could view the card for that species, including video and sound clips of its songs, and add the card to their collection. The game's rules were also explained on NAS's YouTube channel, which also featured bird-related interviews with the stars of ?The Big Year,? Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black.

The game's birds were released to the Web on a rolling schedule so that no one would collect all 30 species until Nov. 7, a few weeks after the movie's release. The first player to collect all 30 cards would win a trip for two to the Galapagos Islands; another 200 would win prizes ranging from Canon cameras and Nikon binoculars to Woolrich gift cards and free downloads of the Society's ?North American Field Guide? smartphone app.

?We figured this was an opportunity to get people interested in our organization who are substantially younger than our current demographic,? says Jessica Green, vice president of engagement for the NAS.

All winners also won a year's membership in the society, and a link on the game's Facebook page allowed players to learn more about Audubon's preservation activities.

For deeper integration, the game allowed players to pick up hints about which websites to visit when by following two ?spokesbird? Twitter accounts, @FloridaScrubJay and @RufHummingbird. They could also invite their Facebook social graph to join the game and trade cards with them, speeding the process of collecting all 30 cards.

And true to the Society's protective mission, participants could also sign up for code that would automatically place a virtual birdhouse on their own website or blog page.

Now that's a lot more feather-friendly than firing them from a slingshot.

Got a Web tip to share? Contact Brian Quinton at brian.quinton@penton.com

Source: http://chiefmarketer.com/social/national-audubon-engages-facebook-1212bq7/?imw=Y

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