Five Companies Take Home Prestigious Show Awards
NEW YORK, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- CNET Networks (Nasdaq: CNET) today
announced that Fujitsu; AppForge, Inc.; GoAmerica, Inc.; Panasonic; and QPS,
Inc. received CNET/PC Expo Best of Show awards for their innovative personal
technology and corporate IT products and solutions at the show. Winners were
announced at a special ceremony at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in
New York earlier today. More information on the CNET/PC Expo Best of Show
awards and winners can be found at http://pcexpo.cnet.com .
CNET is one of the world's most notable and trusted sources of information
on computers, the Internet, and technology, serving millions of users each
day. Its CNET/PC EXPO Best of Show awards were determined by CNET's editorial
staff, led by Steve Fox, Editor in Chief, and Bob Kane, Editor, after scouring
the show floor and reviewing all entries. To qualify, companies could only
submit new products that were being announced or showcased for the first time
at PC EXPO. The five winners were selected from the following categories:
best of show, enterprise technology, business solutions, emerging technology,
and personal technology.
Best of Show: Fujitsu Loox, Fujitsu
The latest example of Fujitsu's innovation, Fujitsu Loox is the smallest
full-featured PC with a built in DVD player, allowing the user to watch
wide-screen DVD movies as well as run all standard Windows applications.
http://www.fujitsu.com .
Best Enterprise Product: AppForge V2.0, AppForge, Inc.
AppForge 2.0 allows users to write Palm OS and Pocket PC applications
using Visual Basic or C++. Free evaluation and more information are available
at http://www.appforge.com .
Best Business Solution: GoAmerica's Mobile Office, GoAmerica, Inc.
GoAmerica's Mobile Office is a first-of-its-kind suite of wireless
products and services designed to give mobile professionals secure and
reliable wireless access to their vital data and business tools.
http://www.goamerica.net .
Best Emerging Technology: USB 2.0
This award does not go to any one company, but to all of the industry
pioneers that recognize the value of this new standard. The factors that make
USB 2.0 so promising are its speed, its backward compatibility with USB 1.1,
and its broad industry support.
Best Personal Technology: (2 winners)
Panasonic DVD Video Recorder DMR-E20, Panasonic
The DMR-E20 is Panasonic's second-generation DVD video recorder, incorporating
unique features such as Time Slip and simultaneous playback and recording,
allowing consumers to digitally record high quality MPEG2 video on DVD-RAM and
DVD-R discs. http://www.panasonic.com .
QPS SuperDrive, QPS, Inc.
SuperDrive is a multifunction DVD/CD storage device supporting FireWire
and USB 2.0 that can write to DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, and CD-RW media.
http://www.qps-inc.com .
Three CNET/PC Expo Best of Show award honorable mentions were also
announced: NEC Versa DayLite/UltraLite, Casio Cassiopeia Fiva MPC-206VL, and
Compaq Evo Notebook N200 Pentium III M (CQ).
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