Net Neutrality

By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (Reuters) - EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe began emailing millions of users of the company's online marketplace on Sunday in an unprecedented lobbying effort to change looming Federal sales tax legislation....

Gov. Rick Scott ran through a wide range of topics during an hour with the Sun Sentinel editorial board on Tuesday. The central point: Everything’s going well in Florida, from Scott’s vantage. “The state’s headed in the right...

President Barack Obama will soon appoint a new chairman of the FCC to replace outgoing chairman Julius Genachowski. The FCC has many important issues pending. One is a request from Congress that the FCC determine if there is "effective competition" among...

Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell, who was seen as a free-market advocate and friend to the media industry and a foil to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, announced he is leaving the regulatory agency in the next few weeks. A...

Hollywood's annual awards season kicks into high gear with the unfurling of the Golden Globes red carpet on Sunday. From afar, it will probably all seem the same as usual — cheering fans in the bleachers, photographers and TV crews by the yard,...

AT&T this week announced that all iPhone users with tiered or shared data plans can now make cellular FaceTime calls. That's good news for those customers, but AT&T's critics say it should stop withholding the feature from the last group still being...

Comcast on Thursday decided to get rid of its controversial 250 gigabyte-per-month cap for its broadband customers, replacing it with a usage-based billing system. The company put its current cap in place in 2008. The decision was aimed at a small number...

WASHINGTON (AP)— In letters from his last hideout, Osama bin Laden fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and crumbling trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West.  A selection of documents seized in...

Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Obama and Gen. David Petraeus. “The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the...

The reason job growth is stagnate Mr. President, is because of the regulations your administration is putting on America’s businesses.   It does not take an economist to figure this one out. You just have to look at what you have done over the past...

This past week, I received my committee assignments for the 112th session of Congress (2011-2012). In addition to remaining on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, I will also be...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have taken another step toward repealing new Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit phone and cable companies from interfering with Internet traffic on their broadband networks. The House Commerce...