IBRAHIM AHMAD WORLD

Infineon Technologies (Kulim) Sdn Bhd plans to spend another RM1.7bil for its facility in Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP) once the economic crisis is over.

The investment would be for the expansion of high volume production and research and development (R&D) activities, vice-president and managing director Tan Soo Hee.

“The R&D work will be expanded to include improving production processes, enhancing our automation technology, developing new modes of analysis on the defects and weaknesses of our products, and creating new materials for use in the production processes,” he said. However, the company could not predict when the economic crisis will end.

About 30% of the floor space in the Kulim facility had installed equipment so there was still 70% for expansion, Tan said.

The group had so far spent RM2.1bil for the Kulim plant, he added.

“One aspect of our R&D work is to improve production processes to reduce wastage.

“The Kulim plant is one of the many Infineon Technologies facilities involved in a worldwide programme to help the group save 600 million euros through cost management and increased productivity.

“Another aspect of the R&D work is creating value with our existing equipment,” he said.

Tan said there were no plans to downsize the staff strength at the Kulim plant.

“We have spent RM110mil to train some 600 of our staff. If we were to retrench, our training efforts would go to waste,” he said.

Instead of downsizing or implementing pay cuts, Tan said 300 to 400 of Infineon Technologies Kulim’s senior management, executives and engineers were supporting the group’s unpaid leave programme by taking three to five days of unpaid leave a month for three months.

Infineon Technologies produces power and logic chips used in the security, industrial and automotive sectors.

Source: theStar Online

I have uploaded something on Youtube. Once in a while I would like to put something fun on this web page. Actually I have a passion for Kamen Riders since I was a Kid.

This Kamen Rider Decade is a Kamen Rider which can change to previous year Kamen Rider started with Kamen Rider Kuuga.

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/decade/

Anyway there is some techniques that you can deploy to get fast income from your youtube videos. Combination of Youtube, ClickBank and Pay per click programs. That will be another story for another day.

Does your business need a blog?

A blog is a Web log, an online journal. Blogs started out as online diaries, in which diarists shared their everyday lives with the world. From their beginnings in 1998, blogs have moved on, and are well on the way to becoming a standard business tool.

Why? Because in February 2003 Google.com bought Pyra Labs, the company which owns the Blogger weblogging tool. Blogger.com, one of the main sites providing blog software and hosting, boasted a million hosted web logs in early 2003. 

Google.com’s interest in blogs indicates that blogs are mainstream. A blog help your business in many ways, depending on whether you create a private or a public blog. Blogs are so useful that you’ll want to create both.

Your business’s private, internal blog

These days, no one works alone. Even if you’re a solo business
operator, you have colleagues, partners, contractors, and
suppliers with whom you communicate daily. A private blog makes
working with a group easier, because you can streamline your
interactions, saving time and energy.

A private blog can contain notes to yourself, or to colleagues. It’s a place to store information and tips that might not warrant a special email message. You can post information like meeting notes, project tasks and summaries, and updated price lists. You
can also post links to large files. No need to email, fax, or mail them to and fro.

Your blog is more useful than email, because blog postings are dated, and easily searchable. You can post a message you want everyone to read, and the message stays on the blog. With email, you read and delete, or read and forget.

If you’ve worked on a project with someone in another state or on the other side of the world, you’ve blessed email, because it makes sharing information so easy. Using a blog to share information is even easier than using email. 

Your business’s public blog

A business blog is a marketing tool. A blog can add value to your Web site, or it can take the place of a Web site. Look on it as a combination “What’s New” Web site page, and an online journal. Because of a blog’s freewheeling nature, it’s friendly and relaxed.

If you don’t have a site, your blog’s a place to put your online CV, portfolio and client list. You can, and should, use your blog to express your personality and expertise. 

If you have a Web site, your blog page builds loyalty, because if you provide interesting content, your visitors will return to your site. And because it’s a Web page, your blog will appear on search engines, attracting new clients.

Google has been treating blogs differently from other Web pages for a couple of years. Whereas it takes a standard Web page/ site a month to be indexed by Google, blogs are indexed daily. This means that your blog is mega-cheap advertising. You can post
something on your blog and have it indexed by Google within a day. 

Will creating a blog help your business? As I suggested in the article: “Get Googled And Build Credibility”, because Google.com is so popular and indexes so comprehensively, if you focus some of your marketing and promotion time on getting your name out on the Web, you’re building your credibility, both online and offline.

So go ahead, blog your business!