Researchers at IBM's India Research Laboratory have developed advanced data masking technology that helps call centers protect critical data without disrupting customer service or business operations. As IBM (NYSE: IBM) continuously seeks new methods to ensure privacy and security, the company intends to utilize this capability in its own call center operations to further protect information for its services clients around the world.

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Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. (NYSE: VM), a leading national provider of prepaid and hybrid wireless plans, today signed a services agreement for Information Technology (IT) operations and new applications development with IBM (NYSE: IBM). The agreement will allow Virgin Mobile USA to enhance its technology capabilities and improve its product portfolio for new and existing customers by affording the Company access to IBM's significant telecommunications industry experience and state-of-the-art IT resources.

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IBM today announced it has acquired Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), a privately held technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. PSI's technologies and employees will become part of the IBM System z business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures, providing doctors a 'high definition' view of the strength and fragility of bones they never had before. This achievement could lead to better clinical tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, a widespread disease that affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over the age of 50.(1)

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MADRID, Spain, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — World Petroleum Congress — Driven by the increasing demand and rising costs for energy worldwide, Repsol YPF and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) today
announced research results using IBM supercomputers powered by the Cell Broadband Engine(TM) as the standard for future hydrocarbon exploration. The preliminary findings show IBM(R) BladeCenter(R) QS22 supercomputers,
powered by the IBM PowerXCell(TM) 8i processor, enable searching for oil fields at greater depths up to six-times faster than conventional technology currently deployed by the oil and gas industry.

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Storebaelt Ltd., the company managing the toll bridge connecting central parts of Denmark, has signed a three year agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM) for IBM to manage Storebaelt's information technology (IT) infrastructure and services.

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IBM is announcing a collaboration with European Union partners at the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Summit to develop new software that will improve performance and drastically cut down time-to-market of mobile web applications. Specifically, partners of the Milepost project — (MachIne Learning for Embedded PrOgramS opTimization) — are developing advanced artificial intelligence technology that automatically learns how to best optimize newly developed programs for embedded processors in mobile devices.

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IBM today announced the deployment of a Canada's fastest research supercomputer at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. The new system will aid in the search for more effective cancer treatments.

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IBM today announced that Microsoft is among the first clients to implement IBM's iDataPlex system — a new category of server developed by IBM for Internet-scale computing. IBM also introduced today a new high performance computing (HPC) option for iDataPlex, to bring supercomputing power to Cloud environments.

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Storebaelt Ltd., the company managing the toll bridge connecting central parts of Denmark, has signed a three year agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM) for IBM to manage Storebaelt's information technology (IT) infrastructure and services.

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