WIESBADEN, Germany, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- New research shows one in 44 internet users have lost money to internet fraud in the past 12 months.

Microsoft Corp, Yahoo! Inc, Western Union and the African Development Bank today announced the formation of a coalition to raise global awareness among consumers of the threat posed by lottery hoax e-mails. Through this collaborative effort, the coalition members will educate internet users so they are better able to protect themselves against fraudulent activities online.

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NEW YORK, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Analytics based on research by Dr. Andrew W. Lo, Chief Scientific Officer of AlphaSimplex Group and Harris Harris Group Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management

ROUSSET, France, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Portable Design China Readers Voted the AT91SAM9G20 Best in Class for Performance and Performance Functionality vs Cost

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that its 400 MHz AT91SAM9G20 ARM926EJ-S(TM)-based embedded microprocessor has been voted one of the five best microcontrollers by the 2008 Portable Design China Reader's Survey. The AT91SAM9G20 was the overall winner in two significant categories: performance, and performance functionality vs cost. The awards were the outcome of one month of on-line voting by Portable Design China's extensive readership base.

PRINCETON, New Jersey, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Laureate To Manufacture Tolera's Monoclonal Antibody Product Candidate -

Laureate Pharma, Inc., a full-service biopharmaceutical development and protein production company, today announced that it has entered into a cGMP contract manufacturing agreement with Tolera Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company that develops and offers targeted therapies and safer solutions for immune modulation and related medical needs. According to the agreement, Laureate will produce Tolera's TOL101 monoclonal antibody under cGMP conditions to be used in clinical trials. Terms of the manufacturing agreement were not disclosed.

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DROITWICH, England, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- As the Alternative to Citrix, Ericom's PowerTerm(R) WebConnect empowers Camberley Auto Factors with lower costs, ease of use and a simpler and faster deployment of enterprise-wide secure remote access

Ericom(R) Software is pleased to announce that Camberley Auto Factors, a leading independent motor component distributor has selected PowerTerm(R) WebConnect Enterprise -- The Alternative to Citrix - to provide secure remote access for all its 28 branches to their head office- based Terminal server infrastructure.

SAN RAMON, California, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Faronics is pleased to announce that the Windows version of its desktop computer energy management software, Power Save, has advanced to version 3.0. This latest release introduces several feature additions and improvements, including an Audit mode, increased control over the operating system's power settings, and support for phased deployments.

KIEL, Germany, October 28 /PRNewswire/ -- LaserSoft Imaging(R) presents a unique solution for fast and easy archiving of slides, negatives and reflective originals. With the new SilverFast(R) Archive Suite you get a bundle of two programs: SilverFast Ai IT8 Studio and SilverFast HDR(R) Studio. An integrated Color Management System meets professional standards.

Using the intelligent auto-frame-finding-function and the fast saving of originals into lossless HDR file formats (48Bit RAW data) enables you to digitize whole image-collections quickly. That's how you effectively prevent your pictures from being destroyed or getting lost.

SAN MATEO, California, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

eMeter, a global leader in clean energy technology, has announced that CPS Energy has chosen its meter data management (MDM) solution, EnergyIP, for their smart meter build out in support of more than one million electric and gas smart meters.

After an extensive evaluation, we found the right partner in eMeter with their EnergyIP solution. eMeter demonstrated their experience with large scale smart meter deployments and their commitment to integration with our SAP customer system, said Chris Baron, Chief Information Officer, CPS Energy.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Expanding Vertical Job Search Engines in the United Kingdom

Today, Simply Hired launches an international job search website for the United Kingdom (http://www.SimplyHired.co.uk). The site will include over one million job listings aggregated from the leading job boards, content websites, newspapers, organizations and company career pages throughout the country. Simply Hired continues to be a comprehensive job search engine with over seven million jobs worldwide and counting.

LONDON, October 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Commenting on the latest quarterly BP profits, with GBP6.4 billion returned, up 148% on the same quarter last year, Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of Unite, said: Struggling, worried families will have every right to feel angry that as the temperature plummets, BP's profits rocket. While the poor and vulnerable cannot make ends meet or heat their homes, the greedy oil companies are banking money faster than they can count it.