PC Magazine Announces the Winners of the 21st Annual Awards for Technical Excellence

PC Magazine Announces the Winners of the 21st Annual Awards for Technical Excellence

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- PC Magazine, a Ziff Davis Media publication, announced today the winners of its 21st Annual Awards for Technical Excellence. The awards recognize products and technologies that have advanced the state of the art and will have a significant impact on the future directions of technology. The winners are published in the January 2005 issue of PC Magazine and online at http://go.pcmag.com/techex2004

"At PC Magazine, we're always looking for cutting-edge technology to use and to test out in our exclusive PC Labs" said Michael J. Miller, Editor-in-Chief, PC Magazine. "Each year we test thousands of select products, and use that information when it comes time to choose our award winners. The Awards for Technical Excellence recognize the products and individuals who we think represented the most innovative and influential technologies we saw in the past year."

In order to be eligible for these awards, the products had to ship or be generally available between October 1, 2003 and October 31, 2004. PC Magazine's editorial staff and Lab analysts nominated 63 products and technologies and then settled on 31 finalists in 11 categories. The 2004 winners are as follows:

Personal Computers Multimedia Software
* OQO model 01 * Keyhole 2 Pro
PC Components Search Tools
* Intel 915/925 PCI Express * X1 Technologies' X1
Chipsets
Mass Storage Enterprise Software
* Sony DRU 700A * Netsuite 10.0
Digital Imaging Videogames
* Nucore's CleanCapture, * Crytek's Far Cry
InfiniteBurst
Mobile Devices Telecom Standards
* Apple iPod mini * Airgo Networks' MIMO
Technology
Mobile Components Lifetime Achievement
* Intel Bulverde XScale PXA 270 * Will Wright, Maxis (creator of
SimCity and The Sims)
People of the Year
* Evan Williams, Meg Hourihan
and Paul Bausch, Blogger.com;
Mena G. Trott and Ben Trott,
Six Apart Ltd.

About PC Magazine


PC Magazine, the independent guide to technology, delivers comprehensive labs-based reviews and the most trusted recommendations for buyers of technology products and services. Reaching more than 5.4 million highly engaged technology influencers, PC Magazine provides product reviews, first looks at emerging technologies and products, and opinionated columns from renowned technology pundits. To meet its readers' needs for buying information that is as current as it is comprehensive, PC Magazine publishes 22 times a year in print and continually on the Web.

About Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Ziff Davis Media is a leading integrated media company focusing on the technology, videogame and consumer lifestyle markets. The Company is an information services provider of technology media including publications, websites, conferences, events, eSeminars, eNewsletters, custom publishing, list rentals, research and market intelligence. In the United States, the Company publishes 10 market-leading magazines including PC Magazine, Sync, eWEEK, CIO Insight, Baseline, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer Gaming World, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Xbox Nation and GMR. The Company exports the power of its brands internationally, with publications in 41 countries and 20 languages. Ziff Davis leverages its content on the Internet with eight highly-targeted technology and gaming sites including PCMag.com, eWEEK.com, ExtremeTech.com and 1UP.com. The Company also produces highly-targeted b-to-b and consumer technology events including DigitalLife. With its main headquarters and PC Magazine Labs based in New York, Ziff Davis Media also has offices and lab facilities in the San Francisco and Boston markets. Additional information is available at http://www.ziffdavis.com/.


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