Baseline articles from September 2007

Baseline archives from September 2007

Dreamliner Test Flight Delay Raises Stakes for PLM Software.
September 5, 2007... Boeing has delayed the test flight of its much-anticipated 787 Dreamliner jet, but the company still believes it can deliver the first aircraft as scheduled by May of 2008. In an update this week on the progress of the new jet, Boeing...

Americans Top List Of Most Productive Workers.
September 5, 2007... Americans are the most productive workers in the world, and technology is one of the reasons why, according to a just-released report by the United Nation's International Labor Organization. American workers add $63,885 each year to their...

A $50 Billion Windfall from the GSA.
September 7, 2007... For some time now, the U.S. General Services Administration, the procurement hub for many federal agencies and the Department of Defense, has been trying to streamline the process by which it awards information technology contracts while...

Mattel's Use of Web in Toy Crisis Garners Some Praise.
September 7, 2007... As Mattel fights a difficult public relations battle after announcing a third global recall of toys this week, it is increasingly relying upon its Internet site to lead the defense. Retail industry analysts say that while its troubles with...

Report: 9/11 Medical Researcher's Data-Gathering Efforts Flawed.
September 10, 2007... The data collection efforts of a New York clinic that conducted some of the leading research on the health of 9/11 recovery workers are in question on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. The...

Fast-Growing LinkedIn Taps Former Google Executive.
September 11, 2007... LinkedIn, which runs a Web site for professional networking, named former Google director of global operations Lloyd Taylor as its vice president of technical operations, a newly created position. Taylor, 49, will be responsible for...

Implementing VOIP on a Crazy Schedule: A Mini Case Study.(Case study)
September 11, 2007... For Molina Healthcare, the cost savings associated with Voice Over Internet Protocol technology proved less important than the flexibility it offered--flexibility for disaster response, as well as more routine administration and...

Travelport Taps Executives to Lead Airline Reservation System.
September 12, 2007... Travelport announced a new executive management team this week, following the merger last month of two of the biggest companies in the airline booking industry. The new management structure will allow the company to focus on rolling out...

I.T. Job Market in Q4: 'Healthy as It's Been in a While'.
September 13, 2007... The Help Wanted sign for information technology professionals will be out through the end of the year and the skills expected to be most in demand include Windows and network administration and database management. Fourteen percent of the...

Retailers Rushing to Meet New Standard for Data Security.
September 14, 2007... For retail industry CIOs, this month is almost like December 1999 all over again. That's because a major Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard deadline looms on September 30. "This is like Y2K for this industry," said Scott...

In Dow Chemical's Adoption of RFID, Many Lessons.
September 17, 2007... While many companies are still determining whether they want to make the leap into applying radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to their business practices, Dow Chemical is wrestling with the enviable challenge of having to whittle...

Bots, Smaller and Wilier, Deepen Their Threat to Networks.
September 17, 2007... IP network operators said bots--computers overtaken and controlled remotely to send out various attacks--have overtaken distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as the most harmful assaults on Internet backbones, according to a survey,...

An Application That's Buggy by Design.
September 17, 2007... There have been some pretty far-out proposals put forward for the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. But using RFID to track and exterminate termites? Dow Chemical isn't putting tiny RFID chips on the backs of...

IBM, Yahoo Join Google in Fight Against Microsoft.
September 19, 2007... Related story: Enterprise Showdown: Google vs. Microsoft IBM and Yahoo made headlines this week in the enterprise desktop area, adding two more contenders in the battle to wrest control from Microsoft. On Tuesday, IBM unveiled a free,...

10 Things Online Retailers Want: List Starts With Zoom-In Capability.
September 24, 2007... Embedding zoom-in capabilities, adding streaming video and providing live chat are among the tools and technologies online retailers view as their investment priorities for the next year, according to a report from research firm Forrester and...

The New York Times Ends Online Subscription Fees.(Brief article)
September 24, 2007... The New York Times has made all content on its Web site free. For the past two years the publication has been charging $7.95 a month--$49.95 a year--for access to TimesSelect, a walled-off area of its site that featured access to the Times'...

SOA Adopters, at Conference, Discuss Model's Benefits and Drawbacks.(Conference news)
September 24, 2007... Promising faster development and reusable code, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) model is sparking interest at many Fortune 500 companies that are looking for more efficient ways of offering new services to their customers. But the...

TJX Breach Could Have Been Avoided.
September 25, 2007... A massive security breach at TJX Companies that led to the loss of personal information on millions of customers is a direct result of inadequate security safeguards and poor security planning, an investigation by Canadian privacy commissioners...

The 10 Habits of Data-Savvy Managers.
September 26, 2007... Poor data quality is an ill that continues to plague organizations - with an estimated 25% of the data in the information stores of big businesses inaccurate, incomplete or duplicated. Tom Redman, president of Navesink, a data-quality...

Business Process Outsourcing: Out of the Back-Office.
September 26, 2007... Business process outsourcing (BPO) doesn't mean what it used to. For consultancies, outsourcing used to be a relatively straightforward proposition. The consultant would be paid to take over one of the client's back-office IT functions so...

Defense Dept. Will Spend $7B on Technology This Year.(Brief article)
September 30, 2007... A list of the top 10 federal information technology spenders includes the armed forces, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Treasury Department. The list, put together by research and consulting firm Input, is based on its...