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IBM Corp.'s supercomputers continue to be the fastest in the world, according to the latest Top500 list of the speediest machines released Wednesday. The company snagged six of the top 10 spots, including the coveted number one and two placings while widening the performance gap between its machines and those of its competitors.

IBM Corp. took the wraps off its latest supercomputer, the 16-way eServer p5 575 which the company expects to ship in the fourth quarter of this year. The company made the announcement at the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Standards body the Liberty Alliance Project believes it can contribute something currently missing from the ongoing debate on tackling identity theft -- a lexicon of terms defining exactly what constitutes ID theft. The alliance, which focuses on developing open standards for federated network identity, revealed its work on the lexicon Tuesday.