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Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and telecom industry executive, is running for the Senate as a candidate who supposedly knows a thing or two about technology. But she appears to be a lot less interested in realizing the promise of new technologies than in warping federal policies regulating those technologies in order to make it easier for big telecom companies to get a whole lot bigger.

West Virginia Public Broadcasting and its two nonprofit fundraising partners are still working to reformulate their respective organizational roles some two months after a legislative auditor criticized how they went about soliciting donations.

The FCC said it was seeking comment on two "under-developed issues" on Net Neutrality following the joint Google-Verizon policy proposal penned last month. One key issue is whether broadband providers can launch specialized services. The far bigger issue is whether wireless access should be excluded from Net Neutrality provisions for now.

The accolades for Elizabeth Warren keep rolling in on the BanksterUSA.org petition. If you have not had a chance to sign it or leave a comment, click here. While you are at it, check out the amusing video produced by the Main Street Brigade to promote her candidacy for the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Washington Post reports that Warren has been spotted meeting with bankers. No, I don't believe she has gone to the dark side, however I do believe that this indicates the administration is serious about her nomination and has asked her to build some bridges.

Wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall when she meets with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: "so Lloyd, are you still selling securities that are designed to fail?" Or with Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf: "have you stopped juggling customer late fees to maximize the pain for consumers?" These are just some of the big bank tricks featured in our last column.

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Earlier this week, a research note suggested that a group of private companies had reached "general agreement" on a private NetworkNeutrality agreement after FCC-brokered industry talks failed to reach consensus. The companies, including Verizon, Skype, AT&T, and the cable lobby, have been meeting at the offices of the ITI in Washington, but they have yet to reach a deal.

Latin America has never been more democratic: 33 nations in Central and South America and the Caribbean are constitutional democracies, with laws guaranteeing open elections, independent courts, legislatures, and freedom of expression. So why do so many governments still trample on citizens' rights, bully journalists, harass private business, and generally lord over hearth and home?

Verizon dropped a four-year campaign to escape price controls in selling competitors access to its residential phone lines in New York, Boston and four other markets, U.S. regulators said.

Clearwire, whose backers include Comcast and Time Warner Cable, recently rolled out a pay-as-you-go mobile broadband service called Rover that starts at $5 per day.

Greater Boston's airwaves have become a broadband battleground, as two wireless carriers launch new, high-speed data services designed to leave current 3G cellular services in the dust.

With old friends in Washington such as Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) in opposition, Google will have to decide how aggressively to lobby alongside Verizon before Congress and the FCC for adoption of the accord the companies proposed.

The Omaha World-Herald, under fire from gay rights advocates who led an Internet-based campaign to protest the paper's policy to not run same-sex paid wedding announcements, has changed its mind.

LightSquared, a high-speed wireless broadband startup backed by hedge fund Harbinger Capital, expects to expand its network into Minneapolis next year.

The Goorizon deal is an empty shell, designed to keep tougher consumer protections away from wireless networks, while leaving plenty of loopholes open for anti-competitive behavior over wired networks. Now a group of companies including Microsoft, NCTA, Verizon, AT&T and Skype may have "reached an agreement" on Net Neutrality behind closed doors, with no public, government, or objective expert input.

The board of directors of bankrupt Tribune Co. formed a special committee to oversee the media company's contentious reorganization process and to manage any legal claims arising from its 2007 leveraged buyout.

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When children and families spend time with nature, they shouldn't be forced to look at ads. That's one reason why a Florida proposal to plaster public parks with ads is a bad and sad idea. Read more about it in this Miami Herald article, featuring CCFC Director Dr. Susan Linn.

The St. Petersburg Times spotlights Lisa “The Corporate Babysitter” Ray’s family’s experiment to have a Disney-free year, an effort in part inspired by Disney's actions against CCFC in the wake of the Baby Einstein refunds.

Canada’s Financial Post gives an in-depth account of the global political struggle to limit junk food ads aimed at kids in an effort to curb childhood obesity.

In the CCFC Blog: Susan Linn says its time to Dethrone the Disney Princesses. What parents can do to resist Disney's relentless marketing of gender stereotypes, materialistic values, and commercialized play.

Study shows that 80% of adolescents don’t get enough sleep, even though 90% of parents think they do. The study finds that "digital diversions," like cell phones and computers, are major factors.