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SOURCE: PC WEEK
PC WEEK Announces the COMDEX/Spring 1998 Best of
COMDEX Awards Results
Awards Recognize Hottest New Products at COMDEX/Spring, WINDOWS
WORLD and EXPO COMM USA
Chicago, Ill., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, April 21st, PC WEEK hosted the
COMDEX/Spring 1998 Best of COMDEX awards ceremony. The awards program honors the
most innovative, influential and noteworthy IT products and technologies introduced at the event.
Only exhibitors in COMDEX/Spring '98, WINDOWS WORLD or EXPO COMM USA are
eligible to enter, and products may not enter the marketplace before March 20, 1998. Winners
were selected from a group of over 130 entries in 8 categories including ''Best of Show.'' The
judging teams were comprised of a highly trained PC WEEK Labs analyst and a PC WEEK
Corporate Partner to ensure that the winning products were exciting, innovative and able to perform
successfully in the real world.
''These awards are unique in that the judges are a combination of PC WEEK Labs technical
analysts and PC WEEK Corporate Partners whose livelihoods are made testing and evaluating
products in America's top corporations,'' said John Dodge, Editor of PC WEEK, Vice-President of
Ziff-Davis News.
The Best of COMDEX awards were also broadcast with live audio and video over COMDEX
Radio, produced by PC WEEK Radio, the official webcaster of COMDEX.
The winners of the COMDEX/Spring 1998 PC WEEK Best of COMDEX awards are:
Best of Show: Centrepoint Technologies Inc.--Concero Switchboard v3.08
The winner of the Spring 1998 Best of COMDEX Best of Show category was
Centrepoint Technologies Inc.--Concero Switchboard v3.08. Concero Switchboard
v3.08 gives remote users the same telephony features currently available only
to large corporate offices. For less than $500, Concero provides capabilities
that often exceed those available in traditional PBX systems costing tens of
thousands of dollars. The Best of COMDEX judges were impressed with the
product's potential to integrate all of a small business's telephony needs,
including a call-bridging feature that allows a remote user to make long-
distance telephone calls at local rates.
Using two POTS lines, Concero directs incoming calls to multiple extensions, including voice, fax,
answering machines, cell phones and pagers. Concero is a 2-line, 6 extension phone system with
four ringing extensions, a PC connection and a remote wireless extension for integrating as many as
three external numbers.
Finalists in this category included:
Hot Jobs Inc.-Softshoe v1.1
Centrepoint Technologies Inc.-Concero Switchboard v3.08
Positive Support Review Inc.-Zinnote v5.1
Best Desktop and Mobile Systems: Everex Systems Inc.-Everex FreeStyle
Executive Palm-size PC
Everex FreeStyle Executive Palm-size PC provides the best features for making Windows CE easy
to use as well as cost-effective for portable users looking for a PDA. It includes rechargeable
batteries and its docking station can be collapsed into a form factor that does not significantly
increase the size of the Executive, raising the bar for personal organizers by allowing users to work
more efficiently.
Finalists in this category included:
Cruise Technologies Inc.-"Wilke" Wireless Windows-based Terminal
Everex Systems Inc.-Everex FreeStyle Executive Palm-size PC
Gateway 2000 Inc.--Solo 9100 with DVD
Best Digital Media: LMSOFT Inc.-LMSOFT Presenter
LMSOFT Presenter gives corporate users the ability to create professional- looking audio and
video presentations without requiring advanced production skills. It also provides innovative
mechanisms for combining dynamically updated Internet-based content with multiple concurrent
video and audio streams.
Finalists in this category included:
Thinkstream--Scan-O-Matic v1.1
LMSOFT Inc.-LMSOFT Presenter
Jasc Software Inc.--Paint Shop Pro 5
Best Network/Internet Software: Hot Jobs Inc.-Softshoe v1.1
With Softshoe v1.1, Hot Jobs Inc. takes good advantage of the Internet to build a high-end HR
application that manages every aspect of the hiring process. From job posting, resume scanning and
auto-reply to high-level management capabilities that let administrators define company wide
policies and manage recruiters, Softshoe provides a complete, enterprise-wide solution for finding
and hiring the best job candidates.
Finalists in this category included:
Hot Jobs Inc.--Softshoe v1.1
ixla USA Inc.-ixla Web Easy
Microsoft Corporation--Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0
Best Networking Hardware: Peracom Networks Inc.--USB Ethernet Adapter
Peracom's USB Ethernet Adapter breaks new ground by allowing users with a USB port to make a
10Mbit connection without installing a NIC. Innovative use of technology and a $149 price make it
a good choice for corporate users who want to get telecommuters up and running with an ISDN
connection, or for home users with cable modems who don't want to open up their desktops
systems to install a NIC.
Finalists in this category included:
Cisco Systems Inc [Nasdaq:CSCO - news].--Cisco 2600 Series Modular Access Router
Globewave Inc.-Com.plete PC Card
Peracom Networks Inc.--USB Ethernet Adaptor
Best New Technology: Anchor Chips Inc.--EZ-Link
EZ-Link provides a higher level of plug-and-play network connectivity on PCs than was previously
available. By combining USB technology with automatic configuration and snap-in components, the
EZ-Link can connect PCs together in a true network quickly and easily without requiring the user to
install cards or software or do any configuration.
Finalists in this category included:
Anchor Chips Inc.--EZ-Link
Nikon Inc.--SuperCool Scan 2000
Lakeside Software Inc.--SysTrack 1.0
Best Peripheral: Centrepoint Technologies Inc.-- Concero Switchboard v3.08
Finalists in this category included:
Centrepoint Technologies Inc.--Concero Switchboard v3.08
American Biometric Company--BioMousePlus
Nikon Inc.--COOLPix 900
Best Productivity Software: Positive Support Review Inc. Zinnote 5.1
An authoring tool for data-rich documents, Zinnote gathers data from a wide array of sources and
fuses them into a presentation-quality report in a way that other report writers can't do without a lot
of custom programming.
Finalists in this category included:
Positive Support Review Inc. Zinnote 5.1
Ultimus Inc.--Ultimus Workflow Suite 3.1
Instinctive Technology Inc.--eRoom 2.0
About PC WEEK
PC WEEK is the national newspaper of corporate computing, reaching a controlled subscriber base
that includes more than 340,000 of the most powerful and influential IT professionals at 183,000
technology rich sites. These buyers represent the core of the technology buying public that look to
PC WEEK for breaking news, timely product reviews, and strategic analysis of the technologies,
platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing. Headquartered in Medford, MA, PC
WEEK is published by Ziff Davis, Inc.
About ZD COMDEX & FORUMS
ZD COMDEX & FORUMS is the world's leading producer of information technology events, with
products ranging from the IT industry's largest exhibitions to renowned educational programs,
custom seminars and specialized vendor marketing programs. It brings together the high-profile,
high-impact COMDEX and WINDOWS WORLD brands with the educational focus and depth of
NetWorld+Interop, Seybold Seminars and other leading industry events. ZD COMDEX &
FORUMS serves more than 6,000 exhibiting companies and two million attendees through 65
events in 20 countries. These events have revolutionized the way computers are bought, sold and
distributed. ZD COMDEX & FORUMS is a division of Ziff-Davis, Inc.
About Ziff-Davis:
Ziff-Davis, a SOFTBANK company, is high tech's preeminent integrated media and marketing
company. ZD content is the trusted source of information for the global audience of business buyers
and savvy consumers who believe in the benefits of adopting new technology. Ziff-Davis enables
marketers to identify, reach, and retain this audience through an integrated system of media products
and marketing services including research, events, print, Internet, television, and education.
SOURCE: PC WEEK
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