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Apple issuing refunds, credits from WGA strike

by Dave Caolo (Mar 18th, 2008)

Here's a nice bit of information. Many iTunes customers bought season passes to television shows in iTunes that never aired as a result of the recent writers' strike. As of this writing, Apple has begun addressing their concerns. In an email that has been delivered to some customers, Apple describes ...

Mac OS X 10.4.7 Phones Home

by Damien Barrett (Jul 4th, 2006)

Daniel Jalkut has discovered that the Mac OS X 10.4.7 update released last week is causing his computer to phone home to Apple. Every eight hours, a process called "dashboardadvisoryd" is contacting two different servers hosted by Apple, ostensibly to verify that the Dashboard plug-ins you have ...