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Submission + - AppleCare tells users "you're on your own" (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Dominare on Thursday May 19, 2011 @02:01PM

Dominare writes: TFA: "A confidential internal Apple document tells the company's front-line support people how to handle customers who call about malware infections: Don't confirm or deny that an infection exists, and whatever you do, don't try to remove it."

So basically, now that Macs have their own equivalent of XP Antivirus the best you can hope for is to be pointed at the store where you can buy something that may or may not fix your problem.... nice.

Submission + - Enforced ad-watching coming to Flash video players

Submitted by Dominare on Monday April 16, 2007 @10:57AM

Dominare writes: The BBC is reporting that Adobe is releasing new player software which will allow websites that use their Flash video player (such as YouTube) e.g. to force viewers to watch ads before the video they selected will play. From TFA:

But the big seller for Adobe is the ability to include in Flash movies so-called digital rights management (DRM) — allowing copyright holders to require the viewing of adverts, or restrict copying. "Adobe has created the first way for media companies to release video content, secure in the knowledge that advertising goes with it," James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research said.

This seems to have been timed to coincide with Microsoft's release of their own competitor, Silverlight, to Adobe's dominance of online video.

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