STANFORD, Calif.--President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said. That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates, including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil-liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies. The announcement came at an event today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Schmidt spoke.
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Rumors of an impending Facebook shutdown had the site's millions of users in a panic Saturday as they wondered who would take their number one procrastination tool away. The Internet rumor was sparked by this report from the "Weekly World News," a website which also includes a story insisting "Alien spaceships to attack Earth in 2011" and another titled "Mike Tyson Pigeon Fetish." According to their Facebook "story," the super popular social media website would be shut down in March because Mark Zuckerberg was getting too stressed out. "Facebook has gotten out of control and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life," the newspaper quoted Zuckerberg as saying at an alleged press conference in California on Saturday. The questionable story apparently sent Facebook users into a panic. The phrase "is facebook shutting down" was the 14th most searched for on Google Saturday and the 10th most as of Sunday morning. The next launch opportunity for the space shuttle appears to be Feb. 27, but it may be possible to move that up by a few days. Discovery and its six-member crew were set for a Nov. 5 liftoff to the International Space Station. But a problem with plumbing on the liquid-hydrogen section of the tank prompted mission controllers to scrub the launch. A subsequent inspection of the tank led to the discovery of cracks in two 21-foot-long vertical ribs, or "stringers," that reinforce the orange-hued shell near the top of the tank. Since then technicians have discovered more cracked stringers and have been undertaking repairs on the orbiter, which was hauled off the pad and returned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Vehicle Assembly Building to allow teams to inspect all the vertical supports. So far, 32 stringers have been reinforced, according to a report in Florida Today. One issue that managers are trying to resolve is whether all 108 of the stringers should be strengthened. LAS VEGAS — This year’s Consumer Electronics Show is more about incremental upgrades than massive breakthroughs. And, of course, there are the tablets.
Check out this video for a quick, two-minute overview of the highlights. We expect literally dozens of tablet manufacturers to release iPad competitors this year, and many are on display at CES this week. Toshiba, Motorola, Panasonic, Vizio, Coby and others are all planning tablet or tablet-like offerings in a variety of sizes and with a range of capabilities. It’s too soon to tell which of these will be worth buying, but they’ll definitely be hitting store shelves in a big way in 2011. As for smartphones, geeking out is the name of the game. If bragging about your PC’s dual-core processor and high-speed L2 cache is your kind of thing, you’ll be happy to know that you can soon do the same with your smartphone. Phone makers are beefing up processing power in an effort to support increasingly demanding mobile operating systems and apps. That’s good news for those who live in and through their portable devices. Dylan F. Tweney, WIRED LAS VEGAS — Things are about to get even more confusing for smart phone shoppers. This year will be the year that 4G networks — the industry term for a next-generation network that provides broadband speeds or faster over a wireless connection — start landing in consumers' pockets in earnest. Unfortunately, cell-phone companies have blurred the lines when it comes to 4G. They all now are using the 4G moniker, but the networks are very different. "All 4G is not created equal," Lowell McAdam, Verizon president and chief operating officer, said Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The result: Users, who genuinely want a faster smartphone experience, are left awash in acronyms as they weigh a phone upgrade or carrier switch. |
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