us department of commerce articles, videos, photos and opinions

Sort by Relevance | Date | Popularity

White House pushes cybersecurity ID plan

...internet ID for Americans, and plans to hand the scheme to the US Department of Commerce, a White House official said on Friday. President Obama... Read more

10 January, 2011 by Declan McCullagh
Beckstrom: I came to change Icann

Beckstrom: I came to change Icann

...over historic changes to internet governance, including Icann distancing itself from direct US Department of Commerce control, and the signing of the DNSSec root. A... Read more

24 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

US rebuffs ICANN bid to manage key internet functions

...global community. With the IANA contract expiring, NTIA, an agency of the US Department of Commerce, consulted the public on what would be necessary in... Read more

12 March, 2012 by Michael Lee

Huawei plugs away in US despite cold shoulder

...be difficult for us to enter. – Ron Raffensperger, Huawei In October, the US Department of Commerce told the company it had been excluded from bidding... Read more

4 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Vaizey knocks EC privacy proposals

...and businesses alike on both sides of the Atlantic," Vaizey said. The US Department of Commerce has consulted on online privacy, and the Obama administration... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner
iMinaret 2.0

iMinaret 2.0

...algorithms used in this software are based on standards established by the US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Solar Calculations. Languages... Read more

25 August, 2010

IT shipments drop 10 percent

...and related products dropped 10.5 percent from July to August, the US Department of Commerce said on Thursday. New orders for computers and related... Read more

26 September, 2003 by Ed Frauenheim

Flak flies over ICANN contract renewal

The US Department of Commerce has come under fire for awarding, without a proper... Read more

10 February, 2003 by Matt Loney

Governments prepare for 'cyber cold war'

...source close to the situation, the chief information security officer of the US Department of Commerce learned this summer that his home computer was being... Read more

3 December, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Icann gains independence from the US

...granted independence from the United States government. On Wednesday, Icann and the US Department of Commerce announced that they had signed a new agreement that... Read more

30 September, 2009 by David Meyer

Crypto project to lock down net security

...longstanding political argument about who would have responsibility for such encryption. The US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration and National Institute... Read more

5 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

IT managers get clarification on recycling duties

...is not proving easy. One audience member at the seminar, representing the US Department of Commerce, said he was attending on behalf of American manufacturers... Read more

24 January, 2007 by Andrew Donoghue
EC: Web 2.0 means power and responsibility

EC: Web 2.0 means power and responsibility

...that meant it no longer had to report back regularly to the US Department of Commerce (DOC), although it will still have to liaise with... Read more

31 October, 2006 by David Meyer

UN proposes net governance changes

...for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, under an agreement with the US Department of Commerce. The US government has occasionally used that unique relationship... Read more

31 October, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

US Government renews domain-name contract

...Net addressing until to 2011. The new contract between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce covers technical functions related to the Internet domain-name... Read more

17 August, 2006 by Anne Broache

Get ZDNet UK's daily newsletter

Enter your email address to sign up

ZDNet UK Live

knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

5 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

6 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

7 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

10 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

11 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

11 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

14 hours ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

14 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

15 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

18 hours ago by NarayanaIyyappan on IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors
DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

20 hours ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

1 day ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

2 days ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

2 days ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

2 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

3 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything
Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

3 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

3 days ago by Philip Charles Cohen via Facebook on PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street
apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

3 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux