Baseline articles from February 2004

Baseline archives from February 2004

The 100-Million-Mile Network.
February 6, 2004... Eighteen days after landing on Mars, the robotic explorer named Spirit squawked in distress and went silent for nearly 24 hours. Listening anxiously for any sign of life were navigators at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif....

Restoration Project.
February 9, 2004... Restoration Hardware's supply-chain and technology infrastructure is a real fixer-upper opportunity. "The problem with these guys is that they don't know how to make money," says Russell Hoss, an analyst with Roth Capital Partners. In...

RFID: Hit or Myth?
February 9, 2004... Procter & Gamble markets some of the biggest brands in store aisles across the country, from Crest toothpaste to Pantene shampoo to Charmin toilet paper. To date, the company hasn't begun to figure out the physics--or the business case--of...

February 2004 Online Extras.
February 12, 2004... 24/7 SERVICES Case Dissection Connecting Costs Calculating Costs of Radio-Frequency Identification in the Supply Chain Is your warehouse up to snuff? If you can't beat 'em...well, maybe it's time to tag along. RFID tag, of course....

Quiz: Do You Need To Automate?
February 12, 2004... ASM systems can keep your security systems up to date, probe your network for weaknesses. Setting them up is hard, though, because some of the pieces to standardize ASM are still missing. The answer will depend a lot on how reliable your Web...

MS Duck and Cover.
February 13, 2004... Just when you thought the Windows security picture couldn't get any worse, Microsoft confirmed Friday that source code from its well-worn Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems had been leaked on the Internet. On Feb. 10, the...

FreshDirect: Ready To Deliver.
February 17, 2004... IT'S 5:30 A.M. at FreshDirect's warehouse and headquarters in Long Island City, N.Y. It's 40 degrees outside and 38 degrees inside. Butchers are slicing, dicing and packaging fresh meats in what is essentially a 300,000-square-foot...

Requiem for a Dream.
February 19, 2004... Internet politics, release 1.0, still has some bugs in it. The beta version powered Howard Dean to an early lead in the Democratic primary race. Yet his campaign failed to win a single state. What went wrong? And how much of the problem was...

Sonic Boom.
February 26, 2004... CHICAGO--The Concorde is dead. Long live supersonic transport. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Aviation and Aerospace Administration are testing new aircraft designs that reduce the "overpressure" that cause...

Should the Government Regulate Internet Security?
February 26, 2004... Both the high-tech industry and the Bush administration have opposed government regulation of the Internet on the grounds that it would burden businesses and hinder technological innovation. But after 2003-- which all acknowledge was the...