Archive for May 9th, 2007
Cisco posted solid earnings for its fiscal third quarter, but its shares are nonetheless taking a beating. Some analysts are blaming the Daylight Savings Time patch requirements for Cisco missing analyst estimates.Cisco reported net income for the quarter rose to $1.9 billion, or 30 cents a share, from $1.4 billion, or 22 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Excluding special items, net income rose to $2.1 billion, or 34 cents a share, from $1.8 billion, or 29 cents a share.
Quarterly sales rose 21 percent from a year ago to $8.9 billion, compared with an average analyst forecast of $8.8 billion. Cisco had estimated a 19 percent to 20 percent revenue growth for the third quarter in February.
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May 9th, 2007
Seven critical security bulletins. That’s the tally in Microsoft’s May edition of Patch Tuesday. The release fixes 19 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer. Seven of the patched vulnerabilities could lead to code execution attacks against Word, Office, and Excel, according to the Microsoft advisories.Three of the seven security bulletins address bugs in Microsoft Office, while others plug holes in Windows, Microsoft Exchange, and Internet Explorer.
The remaining two patches fix a vulnerability in an ActiveX control called the Cryptographic API Component Object Model (Capicom), and a bug in BizTalk, a Microsoft platform for application integration. Of the 19 vulnerabilities, two are found within Vista, six more in older versions of Internet Explorer, and five in the latest version of Redmond’s browser, Internet Explorer 7.
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May 9th, 2007
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers, Humorist
May 9th, 2007
