HOLMDEL, New Jersey, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- North America and Europe Events Honor Customer Innovation and Expertise Leveraging TrackWise Platform

LONDON, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Planalytics Inc., the global leader in Business Weather Intelligence(R), explained in its November WeatherCall(SM) report how warm temperatures proved to be a large obstacle to retail sales at the start of the month. Some relief did come in the last half of the month when a cold spell sparked shopping and items such as outerwear, knitwear and heaters began to move from high street shelves. The cold pattern remained in place until the close of the month with many parts of the UK experiencing snow showers, frosts and freezing fog. Although these can often be traffic limiting events, footfall into stores did not appear to suffer as a result.

RESTON, Virginia, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Releases Third White Paper in Modular Application Development Series

CorasWorks Corporation, a leading provider of modular application development software for Microsoft's SharePoint platform, has announced the release of the third white paper in its modular application development series. The white paper titled Building Composite Applications on SharePoint focuses on composite applications, specifically building composite applications on the Microsoft SharePoint platform.

LONDON, December 3 /PRNewswire/ -- A survey of veterinary practices conducted by the UK's leading cat welfare charity indicates fireworks pose almost as big a danger to cats during Christmas and New Year as they do on Fireworks Night.

Cats Protection's Effects of Fireworks on Cats survey, conducted during October this year and involving 800 veterinary practices, shows that more than half of vets (56 per cent) say there is another specific time of the year, other than 5th November, when they see cats injured or affected by fireworks, with 85 per cent of this sample naming Christmas and New Year.

ZURICH, Switzerland, December 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Prionics, a world leader in farm animal diagnostics, has launched a highly effective and reliable ELISA for the early detection of antibodies specific to the Bluetongue Virus (BTV) in cattle, sheep and goats. BTV causes disease outbreaks which can spread quickly among animal herds causing substantial economic losses in affected countries. At one time the virus was limited to countries located near the equator, but in recent years increasingly more serotypes of the virus have spread to Northern Europe. To combat the disease Prionics now offers the PrioCHECK(R) BTV DR, a diagnostic test that detects all 24 BTV serotypes known.

COLLEGEVILLE, Pennsylvania, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Approval sought for investigational vaccine for protection against the 13 most prevalent serotypes associated with serious pneumococcal disease

ZURICH, December 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Prionics, a world leader in farm animal diagnostics, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Spanish company Ingenasa to make their innovative farm animal diagnostic solutions available to global markets. The collaboration will include distribution, product development and production. Through this partnership, Prionics' and Ingenasa's customers will profit from an expanded portfolio of proven products.

DUBLIN, Ireland, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- FINEOS Delivering Automated Claims Management for General/PC Insurance

FINEOS Corporation, a global provider of innovative enterprise software solutions for insurance, bancassurance, and government, announced today that QUINN-Insurance, the second largest property casualty insurer in Ireland, has gone live with its FINEOS Claims solution. FINEOS is now providing comprehensive enterprise claims management for QUINN's private motor lines and will be used by 600 employees at QUINN's insurance operations in Ireland. The second phase of the project will see the expansion of FINEOS Claims to cover commercial lines and home insurance.

LONDON, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Footbo - the Fastest-Growing Online Community for Worldwide Football Fans with 200,000 Members Since its June Launch - Announces Section Devoted to Amateur Football Players Teams

Footbo.com, (http://footbo.com) the fastest-growing online community for football (soccer) fans around the world, now has a user-generated section devoted to amateur football players. This new section of the social network enables amateur teams and players to create and manage their own player and team profiles.

This new feature will allow users to make their own mark on football history, providing them with the tools to manage their own amateur teams while connecting with other fans and community members, said Mani Honigstein, CEO of Footbo.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts and LONDON, December 3 /PRNewswire/ -- MetraTech Corp., the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider announced that its MetraNet product has been deployed by Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as the billing and partner settlement solution for Microsoft Online Services, Microsoft's new cloud computing services. Microsoft Online Services remove the burden of managing and maintaining business systems and frees IT departments to focus on initiatives that can help deliver true competitive advantage. With MetraNet, Microsoft is able to reliably bill subscribers and automatically compensate partners for their customers' subscriptions to Microsoft Online Services.