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"Welcome to this morning\u2019s edition of \u201CFirst To Know,\u201D a series in which we keep you in the know on what\u2019s happening in the digital world. Today, we\u2019re looking at four particularly interesting stories.\n22 EU Countries Ratify ACTA\n22 member states of the European Union have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), joining the U.S., Australia, Canada and other countries who have signed it in October 2011. \nACTA is, some contend, a dangerous piece of legislation, shrouded in secrecy and ratified without a healthy and open public discussion. Its signing has sparked protests in Poland, and European rapporteur for ACTA  Kader Arif has resigned from his position, calling it a \"charade.\"\nTwitter Enables Content Censoring on a Country Basis\nGoing forward, Twitter will have the ability to censor content in a certain country, while keeping that content available for the rest of the world. While Twitter promises to go about censorship in a transparent manner, some worry that the move will be a blow to freedom of speech in certain countries. \nSamsung 2011 Q4 Earnings\nSamsung has reported a $4.7 billion operating profit on a $42 billion revenue in Q4 2011, a significant year-over-year increase (16 and 13 percent, respectively). Smartphone shipments increased 30 percent, says Samsung, leaving the exact number to our imagination; analysts' estimates put it at 36.5 million.  \nSuper Wi-Fi Deploys in New Hanover County\nSuper Wi-Fi, a new wireless networking standard operating in the \"white spaces\" between 50 - 700Mhz, has been deployed in New Hanover County, North Carolina. It has many advantages over the current Wi-Fi standards, and further down the line it might bring very fast wireless connections to very large areas. \nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, DNY59"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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