Konsumsi Gas untuk Industri Manufaktur akan Dipangkas 20%

Pasokan gas untuk industri manufaktur akan dipangkas hingga 20% untuk menyiasati kekurangan pasokan gas yang dialami PT Perusahaan Gas Negara Tbk (PGN). Bagi industri yang tetap menggunakan gas diatas dari batas maksimal pemotongan maka akan dikenakan biaya surcharge harga gas.

Menteri Perindustrian MS Hidayat menjelaskan skema pengurangan pasokan gas dan surcharge ini merupakan salah satu cara untuk menekan penggunaan gas bagi industri ditengah pasokan gas yang terbatas. Hal ini bertujuan untuk tetap menjamin pasokan gas ke industri tetap ada.

"Pokoknya harus win-win solution, pokoknya tidak boleh ada industri yang tutup karena supply gas," kata Menteri Perindustrian MS Hidayat saat ditemui disela-sela pertemuan antara direksi PGN dengan Asosiasi Keramik Indonesia (Asaki) di kantornya, Jakarta, Kamis (25/2/2010)

Hidayat menjelaskan mekanisme surcharge diberikan bagi industri yang tetap menggunakan kebutuhan maksimalnya sesuai kontrak sebelumnya. Selain itu, dengan adanya surcharge akan berimbas pada harga gas yang sedikit lebih tinggi. Ia berharap kebijakan ini bisa dilakukan selama setahun kedepan.

"Ini yang mau saya bicarakan dengan BP migas," kata Hidayat.

Sementara itu Ketua Umum Asosiasi Aneka Keramik Indonesia (Asaki) Achmad Widjaya selaku industri manufaktur mengatakan rencana pemangkasan pasokan gas ke Industri ini sungguh menusuk industri manufaktur terutama sektor keramik.

Ia menjelaskan pemangkasan ini disebabkan karena PGN akan mengalihkan pasokan gasnya ke pengeboran minyak Chevron di Riau untuk mengejar lifting minyak hingga 20.000 barel per hari.

"Karena kebijakan pemerintah mengekspor gas dan mementingkan pengeboran di Chevron Riau. Ini bisa menjadi ancaman bagi industri," katanya.

Ia menjelaskan pemangkasan pasokan gas ini akan terjadi mulai bulan April 2010 sejalan berakhirnya kontrak-kontrak gas pabrik keramik dengan PGN.

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Google Adsense Tips to make more money using AdSense

Google AdSense is the best way to make money online or working from home. You can star Google AdSense as a part-time job initially. You should have a blog site or website to start with.

There are many websites and blogs which offer Google Adsense tips and tricks to make more money using Google AdSense.

In fact Google itself gives you more optimization tricks that can helps you to make more money using Google AdSense.

Also Google conducts more Webinars in order to make publishers aware how to make their website optimized for Google AdSense.

Google advises to put wider ad formats such as 336x280, 300x250, 160x600 etc. Also you can put link units to get more revenue from little space.

Also try to use the colors of the website, so that the ads looks great.

Here you can see some steps to increase your AdSense revenues.

01. First and foremost tip is to have unique content for your website / blog. Also try to make sure that your content is trustworthy by adding relevant information or links.

02. Try to include 300x250, 160x600 ad formats in your webpage / blog

03. Also you can show your channels to the advertisers. Read it here Inside AdSense: Maximizing revenue by exposing your channels to the right advertisers

04. Try to include at least two link units Inside AdSense: Six AdSense optimization tips for forums

05. Google has improved its search box. Please include at least one of them in to your website / blog.

07. Also try YouTube video units. Inside AdSense: Introducing video units

Optimize your site and analyse the adsense

After you got your AdSense account approved from Google and once you have started earning from your AdSense, here are some tips and tricks, which may help improving your AdSense earnings.

01. Create Custom Channels for your website sections or different blogs. You can create more than one blog using Blogger. Be make sure that it is of unique content.

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For more info about Tricks and tips read AdSense - Tips and Tricks for the future

Beware about invalid click and click fraud

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Why we don't trust Devil Mountain Software (and neither should you)

Devil Mountain Software has been a thorn in the side of Microsoft for years and is adept at garnering headlines. The latest effort is a report claiming that 86 percent of Windows 7 PCs were gobbling up too much memory. Can you trust these findings and the company overall? The short answer: No. Here’s why.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes recapped the technical issues with Devil Mountain Software, but frankly the concerns go well beyond mere code. Kingsley-Hughes noted that Devil Mountain Software (DMS) and its Exo Performance Network (XPNet) aren’t on his “trusted list.” After a discussion with many of our ZDNet experts led by Ed Bott and Jason Perlow in recent days, it’s clear none of us trusted Devil Mountain Software.

Here’s what we’ve found from our investigation of the company:

• Devil Mountain CTO Craig Barth is InfoWorld columnist Randall C. Kennedy.
• Devil Mountain’s software has potential privacy issues and the company isn’t afraid to show off that it can peek into your systems.
• A high-profile customer that “Barth” uses to legitimize Devil Mountain’s software says there is no implementation of the application at the company.
• Numerous disclosure issues about the relationship between Devil Mountain, Kennedy and IDG, essentially the only outlet that has quoted Barth. Note: Between Saturday and Sunday, InfoWorld pulled references to Kennedy in its blog roll and said that it no longer offers the Windows Sentinel software, which is a clone of the DMS Clarity Suite.

Indeed, InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr just confirmed the first point and IDG has severed ties with Kennedy. In a blog post, Knorr outlined Kennedy’s fate. Knorr referred our questions to Kennedy, who isn’t picking up the phone. ComputerWorld also said that it didn’t know Barth was really Kennedy.

We saved for posterity a stray screenshot that InfoWorld forgot — a Windows Sentinel plug :

Smartphone wars: Apple fires back at Nokia; Court skirmishes heat up

Apple has responded to Nokia’s patent suit and argued in court documents that the mobile phone giant is violating antitrust laws with its “unreasonable” royalty requests for standard technology.

The latest skirmish between Apple and Nokia comes as mobile phone players are increasingly duking it out in court and via the International Trade Commission (ITC).

To wit:

• The ITC has launched an investigation into Eastman Kodak’s complaint that Research in Motion and Apple are infringing on its patents.
• The ITC is investigating a complaint by Motorola against RIM.
• And the ITC is investigating a complaint by Apple against Nokia.

That’s a full plate for sure.

What are most of these skirmishes about? Patents and licensing terms mostly. Those with patents want more money out of those licensing technology. And if parties don’t agree it quickly turns into a court skirmish. Nokia and Apple are exhibit A of this trend.

In October, Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging infringement on 10 patents. Nokia wanted royalties on 42 million iPhones sold so far. Apple countersued in December and prepared its initial response. Nokia then fired back.

On Friday, Apple returned fire and delivered its complete response to the Nokia complaint. The big difference this go round: Apple is playing the antitrust card.

Apple argues that Nokia didn’t disclose its intellectual property rights in a timely manner and now Nokia has monopoly power over five areas that essentially make a wireless phone work. Apple alleges that Nokia misled standard setting groups so it could ensure its inventions were included in Wi-Fi, wireless transmissions and similar technologies. Apple adds that Nokia’s patent claims on devices that use GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and WLAN standards will raise prices for all.

Apple also adds that Nokia’s rates are too high.

Here are a few choice excerpts from the filing (download complaint PDF):

These charges and countercharges are going to sound familiar in the not-too-distant future. There are plenty of patent squabbles in the wireless phone pipeline.