HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, April 21/PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft's lawsuit against Unicaresoft BV is scheduled to take place on 23 April. Unicaresoft is a joint initiative of Carola Eppink, developers and entrepreneurs. Carola, mother of three, designed a solution against excessive chatting and Internet use from her home and wanted to name the product MSNLOCK.

The name derived from the idea behind the software - regulating the use of various chat programmes. Carola thought MSNLOCK to be an appropriate name for a product that provides a solution for such a large-scale social problem.

Shortly after registering the brand and domain name, Microsoft Corporation demanded through their lawyers that the name was withdrawn and the domain name deregistered.

British Internet Software Developer Speed-Trap, featured in pod3.tv's Focus on Business show, is Queen's Award for Enterprise Innovation Category Winner

Web software developer, Speed-Trap, has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2008. This prestigious annual prize is awarded to businesses that display continuous innovation and development to levels that are outstanding for the size of the company's operations. Speed-Trap is a 25-person company based in Newbury, Berkshire.

Speed-Trap provides software that uses web 2.0 technology to capture and deliver complete, real-time data on every individual on-line customer and prospect - complete on-line customer insight.

Tonight in London, Veuve Clicquot Champagne announced the winner of the 35th Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award at a champagne reception held at The Berkeley Hotel, Knightsbridge.
The silver bottle trophy was presented by The Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP.

THE WINNER
Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group

McCall oversees a business which spans publishing, broadcasting and the internet. Guardian Media Group comprises the Guardian and Observer, the Guardian.co.uk website, GMG Radio, regional newspapers including the Manchester Evening News, Trader Media Group (publisher of Auto Trader) and a property services division.

LONDON, January 22/PRNewswire/ -- A new poll has revealed that 35% of Brits no longer want to receive printed business directories at home - preferring instead to look up information on the Internet or better still receive recommendations from friends. The results of the poll commissioned by local search website http://www.welovelocal.com and conducted by YouGov revealed that 67% trust word of mouth more than advertising.

Max Jennings, founder of local listings web-site http://www.welovelocal.com, commented: "more than 17.5 million(i) unwanted directories are produced every year, the waste is staggering, particularly when this survey demonstrates that 51% of all British adults are now using the Internet to find local businesses."

LONDON, January 23/PRNewswire/ -- Methods to combat cyber-threats and electronic crime will be discussed by experts and over 500 delegates from FTSE 100 companies, global business, government agencies, and international law enforcement at the 6th Annual e-Crime Congress on 5th and 6th March at Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London.

Electronic crime now ranks as one of the greatest risks facing business and government. While organised crime's activities such as identity theft and fraud continue to threaten online security and consumer confidence, this year has also seen an increasing number of targeted attacks on the IT infrastructure of companies and governments. Hundreds of CEO's have been warned about the risk of espionage, while cyber-warfare has emerged as a primary threat to critical national infrastructure.

LONDON, January 21/PRNewswire/ -- The search is on for the extraordinary business woman who will win the prestigious Veuve Clicquot Award.

Now in its 35th year, this unique award recognises the inspiring role played by successful business women. This prize will be awarded in April 2008.

The type of business in not important, but achievement, motivational ability, innovation, creativity, business acumen, entrepreneurship, dynamism, charisma and, most critically, a profound concern for the sustainable growth of her business and the development of her team, will certainly be amongst the qualities the judges will be looking for.

In theming this year's award Veuve Clicquot has acknowledged the increasing importance of social and environmental issues in the success of 21st century business, both as regards to operation of the business, and its impact on the broader community. Therefore, the judges will also be looking for a genuine commitment to responsible and sustainable growth.

Procession plc, the developer of original and innovative People & Task Driven and Goal Directed software in its Task Orientated Applications (TOA), has hit out at Microsoft for not playing fair in trying to copy and patent Procession’s innovative business software. Moreover, Procession criticises IT vendors whose systems do not have the best interests of their business users at heart.