VeriSign also announced that it will work with Open Media Network to make videos downloaded from omn.org viewable on consumers' television sets. Users of OMN's public broadcasting library will be among the first able to download high-quality programming from the Internet and watch it on intelligent TVs via set top boxes.

I'll sit down with VeriSign's vice president for broadband services, Todd Johnson, later today to talk about his ambitious plans for the year ahead. He's a Silicon Valley veteran and founder of P2P firm Kontiki, which VeriSign acquired last year.