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Federal Communications Commission regulators are investigating Google's Street View cars and their capture of users' personal information, from complete email addresses to passwords, an FCC official said Wednesday.

Verizon was today fined a record $25 million by the Federal Communications Commission and agreed to refund an additional $52.8 million to customers to settle allegations that the largest U.S. mobile-phone company overcharged customers for data fees.

News Corp. rejected Cablevision's retransmission price offer for Fox's New York and Philadelphia television stations, prompting Cablevision to solicit regulators to restore Fox TV signals to 3 million Cablevision subscribers in the Northeast.

Despite the carrier's admission of overbilling, the FCC says it plans to investigate why it took Verizon two years to notify customers of the problem, reimburse them and take corrective action. Additional penalties are a possibility.

Drivers distracted by talking or texting on cell phones killed an estimated 16,000 people from 2001 to 2007, according to a report released yesterday in the American Journal of Public Health. "Our results suggested that recent and rapid increases in texting volumes have resulted in thousands of...

Lobbyists from some of the largest U.S. technology companies are meeting behind closed doors in Washington with telecom giants to discuss net neutrality, following the failed FCC talks and Google's bilateral deal with Verizon. No surprise, public interest groups weren't invited.

Despite the search giant's defense of its joint plan with Verizon on tiered Internet service, the proposal has stirred up a storm of criticism, with protesters swarming the search giant's Silicon Valley campus Friday to voice their displeasure.

Google and Verizon drew lots of criticism last week with a Web-traffic pact rumored to favor higher-paying providers. Now, the companies have unveiled a proposal that pays homage to the concept of net neutrality, at least in the short term.

Federal Communications Commission officials reportedly slammed the door Thursday on further private talks with Google and Verizon to develop a loosely regulated level playing field for how Internet content gets delivered by telecom and cable operators.

Google and Verizon denied reports of a proposed tiered-services deal that would allow websites to pay broadband providers for the privilege of getting content in front of users more quickly. The alleged deal had proponents of net neutrality up in arms Thursday.