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Storage sites unnerved by Megaupload action added on 23rd January 2012

The arrest of Megaupload's founders has led to other file storage sites taking action in an apparent attempt to protect themselves from legal action.

Filesonic has disabled its sharing functions, allowing users to access only their own files.

Uploaded.to has blocked US access to its site entirely, with a message saying "sorry about that".

Experts said that the sites were attempting to show that they were taking piracy seriously.

"If those websites are found to be communicating the works - ie facilitating sharing - then that's the key risk in terms of criminal liability," said Adam Rendle, a copyright lawyer from London-based law firm Taylor Wessing.

Filesonic, which is based in the UK and Hong Kong, has not released a statement about its move to block sharing.

Facebook unveils 60 apps under latest expansion plan added on 19th January 2012

Facebook is adding a series of new applications to let users share such things as photos, travel or fashion.

The online social network firm unveiled more than 60 new apps that users can share on their Facebook profiles, known as their Timeline.

Users can already share the music they are listening to or news articles they are reading.

But this latest development expands the number of apps significantly.

Tech watchers have described the activity as "frictionless sharing". Once users sign up for the apps, they will automatically share your activity through Facebook.

Bogus Computer Scam added on 25th October 2011

As a computer technician one of my customers called me saying that a company associated with Microsoft called them saying that there is a big problem with their computer.

I called them back on behalf of my customer pretending to not know too much about computers.

The foreign gentleman on the other end of the phone told me to navigate to an area on my computer which showed an error message.

He then said this error message will cause big problems and you have spyware and viruses and my hard drive would become corrupt.

THIS WAS A COMPLETE LIE, all he was referring to was a program which did not shut down properly and flag up an error symbol.

He then requested to gain access to my computer!!

DO NOT TRUST THESE TYPES OF CALLS.

How could anyone call your number and then know that the number they called you on the computer at that address "has problems"...