The International Trade Awards 2009, sponsored by HSBC are now open for entries and are looking for exceptional importers and exporters from across the UK to take part. Now in their third year these are the only national business awards in the UK that exclusively recognise the success achieved by the UK’s leading exporters and importers.

Despite the challenges posed by current global economic conditions, UK companies are still competing on the international stage and the International Trade Awards celebrate these ventures and successes. The awards recognise excellence among businesses of all sizes, and across all sectors, including awards for innovation, small-to-medium sized business and the overall ‘International Trade Company of the Year’.

54% London workers forced to travel into work, despite 47% saying they could be just as productive working from home

• 34% of London adults disrupted by the strike • 5% managed to maintain productivity by avoiding the commute and working from home • 2% said they had to take a day off due to disruption • 1% of Londoners even took a ‘sickie’

Amersham, UK - 12th June 2009: London workers spent an additional 1.3m hours getting to work on the morning of Wednesday 10th June alone due to travel disruptions caused by the Tube Strike, equivalent to 188,000 lost working days.

High performance Clavister Security Gateway 4300 Series will deliver security to medium and large enterprises   June 9, 2009 — IP-based security and unified threat management (UTM) specialist, Clavister has today announced the launch of the Clavister Security Gateway (SG)4300 Series, a best-in-class, high performance UTM security solution capable of handling a large number of connections with super fast throughput.   Based on the same award-winning technology found in all Clavister products, the Clavister Security Gateway 4300 Series has been designed to maximize high performance of plaintext and encrypted traffic. The Clavister SG4300 Series is a set of ready-to-use, hardware-based, security products designed for medium and large enterprises and data centers that require high performance and scalability coupled with first-class UTM services.  

Examines impact of online fraud on airlines worldwide   MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., U.S.A. and READING, U.K.—April 28, 2009—CyberSource Ltd today announced the general availability of its Airline Online Fraud Report, a comprehensive study of the impact of online fraud on the airline industry. CyberSource commissioned the study in association with Airline Information LLC. It can be downloaded at: http://forms.cybersource.com/forms/airlinefraudpr.   “eCommerce is one of the most important sources of airline revenues,” said Dr. Akif Khan, Head of Client and Technical Services at CyberSource Ltd, “with about a third of all bookings deriving from the online sales channel. So this form of crime is of paramount concern to our airline customers and to us.