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Hello Barbie's critics using Mattel doll to wage privacy fight
2015-03-29 01:19:45| Toys - Topix.net
Mattel's Hello Barbie, a new doll that can hold Siri-like conversations with kids, was meant to help spur a turnaround for the company. Instead, it's drawn the ire of one of the toy industry's most influential critics.
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Hello Barbie's interactive abilities and Web connection are just plain creepy, say critics
2015-03-26 23:52:38| Toys - Topix.net
Mattel's Hello Barbie, a new doll that can hold Siri-like conversations with kids, was meant to help spur a turnaround for the company. Instead, it's drawn the ire of one of the toy industry's most influential critics.
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Hello Barbie's Critics Say Talking Doll Is a Privacy Threat
2015-03-25 07:19:47| Toys - Topix.net
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Hello Barbie is displayed at the Mattel showroom at the North American International Toy Fair, on Saturday, Feb. 14, in New York.
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PUC critics cite concerns over 'revolving door'
2015-03-22 02:39:55| Energy - Topix.net
While California's powerful Public Utilities Commission has taken steps to address controversies over its oversight of the state's utilities, state lawmakers and critics of the agency urge it to adopt tougher rules on a huge obstacle to reform: the revolving door between the PUC and the power industry. Over the past 20 years, a number of high-ranking officials at the state Public Utilities Commission -- including its top boss for 12 years, Michael Peevey -- joined the agency after working for utilities that the PUC regulates, or landed jobs in the power industry after stints at the PUC.
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Using steam to extract oil is bad for water, plus a worker boiled to death, critics say
2015-03-10 18:45:10| Energy - Topix.net
A hearing by state lawmakers Tuesday on problems in California's protection of drinking-water aquifers from the state oil and gas industry also is slated to focus attention on the way oil companies in the state use high-pressure steam to force up petroleum. State oil and gas regulators have acknowledged “routinely” allowing oil and gas producers to inject steam underground at pressure so high that it cracks open underground rock formations, in violation of state and federal regulation, according to a state Senate report prepared for Tuesday's joint hearing by the Senate's environmental quality and natural resources and water committees.
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