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Samsung’s Android customers get their pick of a pretty broad selection of smartphone web browsers and soon, at least according to ETNews, Samsung is looking to follow up on its own Android UI additions with its own fully-fledged mobile browser. The company is reportedly seeking out WebKit engineers to work on the project at Samsung’s Silicon Valley R&D center — where work is already underway on the Chrome mobile rival. The open-source WebKit engine already underpins not only Google’s own browser, but also its pre-ICS Android web browser — and Apple’s Safari. We’ve got in touch with Samsung who politely told us that it “doesn’t comment on rumor or speculation.”

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U.S.-based human rights watchdog Freedom House released a report about internet freedom today, and its conclusions are chilling for everyone who considers the internet to be a transformational force worldwide. The report, which assesses the internet policies and laws of 47 countries between 2011 and 2012, concludes that several regimes are combining tried-and-true techniques of filtering with newer extra-governmental surveillance. In particular, Saudia Arabia, Ethiopia and China have increased internet filtering and monitoring in response to partially-social-media driven political uprisings in the Middle East.

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On its 14th birthday, Google has launched a new venture called ‘Google for Entrepreneurs.’ In the post announcing this, Google states that there are about 40 million entrepreneurs across 54 countries right now. The new venture has been launched to celebrate the creative spirit that goes into their efforts. (more…)

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If you have been around the internet long enough, you’ve probably stumbled across one or two questionable websites where girls (and presumably guys, but maybe not as common) will perform acts of the sexual nature via webcam in exchange for money. Given that these acts are done in the comfort and protection of their own home, we guess it’s a quick and easy way of making some extra bucks. However considering that perhaps not all these girls are willing participants and without a proper way to make sure that participants are of a legal age, the country of Philippines has decided to outlaw cybersex and online sex video chatting. Those found guilty will be fined $6,000 and a jail term of up to six months.

A cybercrime unit will also be set up which will exclusively handle cases that deal with the violation of this new law, and they are also looking into setting up cybercrime courts with specially trained judges. While that well and good, there are some who are worried that this law could be used to curb the freedom of the press, especially since it has listed internet libel as a cybercrime.

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When U.S. Congress was gearing up to pass SOPA, Silicon Valley was pulling at its hair, trying hard to lobby the congressmen to think otherwise. Those efforts pretty much failed and the lawmakers were persuaded only when the likes of Wikipedia went on a blanket black-out.

However, the tech giants took a good lesson from it – that they need to expand their influence in Washington and be in a better position to lobby on web-related issues such as online piracy, user privacy, digital security etc. (more…)

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