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The Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to appeal a U.S. District Court order imposing a temporary injunction on a Defcon presentation that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has sued three students and their school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to stop them from disclosing flaws in the MBTA's electronic ticketing system.

IBM and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers are using an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer to build intricate simulations of human bones, which could lead to earlier diagnoses of osteoporosis.

Oracle may be signaling its intention to strong-arm customers over to its new virtualization platform, but Microsoft is doing just the opposite.

Now that companies have mastered the virtualization of server operations, vendors are increasingly selling the idea of virtualizing the entire data center. The idea of enabling the dynamic management of servers, storage and network devices through a single "fabric" places new virtualization offerings firmly in the realm of becoming a data center platform. That platform may spawn a new IT position for a person who would supervise the management of the virtual layer of server, network and storage infrastructures.

Component-based front office retail solutions provider, Finantix is ramping up operations in the region opening new headquarters in Sydney yesterday.

IBM has taken a large stride in its race with Intel to make faster, smaller chips by building silicon transistors from a rare combination of metals.