Wed Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 8, 2006 at 2:49:42 PM
Hubble disproves cosmic string.
More Windows flaws.
Cisco's TV plans for Scientific-Atlanta.
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Unfortunately for the proponents of cosmic strings, observations with Hubble on 12 January have revealed that CSL-1 is actually two different galaxies. "We have to conclude that CSL-1 is not the lensing of an elliptical galaxy by a cosmic string," Sazhin says.
More Windows flaws.
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Though the WMF vulnerability may appear similar to previous flaws related to WMF that plagued Windows, the issue is different, Microsoft said. Last month the software maker rushed out a fix for a WMF rendering flaw that was being exploited to install spyware on the computers of unwitting Windows users. To remedy this new WMF problem, Microsoft recommends users upgrade to IE6 with Service Pack 1 and said it may issue a security patch.
Cisco's TV plans for Scientific-Atlanta.
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For now, Cisco's consumer market is miniscule compared with its overall business. The company still generates the bulk of its revenue from sales of networking equipment to large companies. The rest of its revenue is split among sales to small and medium-size businesses, which account for 25 percent of sales. Its service-providers business brings in another 25 percent of revenue, while its consumer products generate only 5 percent of total revenue.