BYTE Magazine picks best products at CeBIT '96; Editors give Best of Show award to Nokia 9000 Communicator at world's biggest computer fair.HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 1996--The editors of BYTE Magazine gave the Nokia 9000 Communicator The Nokia 9000 Communicator was the first in Nokia's Communicator series, introduced in 1996. The phone was huge and heavy (397 g) in comparison with its modern equivalent the Nokia 9500. The Communicator part is driven by an Intel 24 MHz 386 CPU. their Best of Show award at CeBIT '96 today. BYTE's Best of CeBIT awards recognize the most important and innovative products at CeBIT. The Nokia 9000, from Nokia Mobile Phones (Espoo, Finland), combines digital voice and data communications with personal organizer functions in a small, easy-to-use package. The winners and finalists in other categories are: Best Technology The Cyrix 6x86, from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Cyrix. Cyrix, with its manufacturing partner IBM, has created a superscalar A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. See pipeline processing. (architecture) superscalar - A superscalar architecture is a uniprocessor that can execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. , superpipelined, x86-compatible processor that outperforms the Intel Pentium on most applications. Although Cyrix's sixth-generation P166+ actually runs at 133 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. , it delivers equivalent or better application performance than a Pentium processor running at 166 MHz. Best System Compaq Computer's Deskpro M2100. A 166-MHz Pentium-based PC, the Deskpro M2100 includes the LS-120, a next generation, 120 MB floppy drive with an optional scanner keyboard. Finalists: -- UPKE 2626, from UPKE Systems, a Pentium-based multimedia PC for the home. -- G6-200, from Gateway 2000, a 200-MHz Pentium Pro-based PC. Best Portable The Pilot, from the Palm Computing Division of U.S. Robotics. This personal organizer easily fits into your pocket and features one-touch synchronization with your PC. Finalists: -- Toshiba's Tecra 720CDT CDT abbr. Central Daylight Time CDT Central Daylight Time CDT n abbr (US) (= Central Daylight Time) → hora de verano del centro; (BRIT , a high-end, 133-MHz Pentium-based notebook. -- Digital Equipment's HiNote Ultra II, a 133-MHz Pentium-based small notebook. Best Internet Product Visual Web, from Innovative Software. Available now for Win 95, Win NT, and OS/2 Warp (and soon, PowerMac, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , and Sun Solaris), this browser and offline reader provides a panoramic view of World Wide Web sites and lets you download pages for offline browsing. Finalists: -- MicroTouch's Prospector, a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. for use on public touchscreen kiosks. -- Iterated Systems' Fractal Imager, a fractal compression utility for the Web. Best Peripheral Tektronix' Phaser 550. A 1200-by-1200 dots-per-inch color laser printer A laser printer that prints in color using four toner cartridges (CMYK) of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The colors are applied one at a time to the drum and are then adhered to the paper. See printer. that prints at up to five pages per minute in color (14 ppm in monochrome), the Phaser 550 delivers excellent quality images and includes a Web-based management tool. Finalists: -- Vierte Art's X-Ist Facial Expression facial expression, n the use of the facial muscles to communicate or to convey mood. Tracker, a real-time animation software companion. -- The SwapSmart PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. smart card reader from SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. Microsystems. Best Communications Hardware The Nokia 9000 Communicator. This GSM phone incorporates Web browsing, personal organizer applications, fax/send receive, e-mail, an IrDA port, and other features in a device that weighs less than 400 grams. Finalists: -- AVM's Mobile ISDN-Controller M2, a PC card that provides ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. and GSM connectivity. -- Xylan's Pizza Switch, a 12-port, 10BaseT switch that supports multi-switch virtual LANs. Best Communications Software RVS-COM, a suite of programs for ISDN connectivity. From RVS RVS Reverse RvS Raven Shield (game) RVS Roestvrij Staal RVS Relative Value Scale RVS Remote Video Surveillance RVS Raytheon Vision Systems RVS Relative Value Schedule RVS Real Video Stream RVS Regular Valve, Steam Datentechnik. Finalists: -- Aries Australia's PhoneControl, an information tool for PBXes and keyphone systems. -- MediaPhonics' Easycom 1.5, an integrated communications program for small offices. Best Multimedia Hardware A four-way tie went to companies that released 2D/3D graphics accelerator cards based on S3's ViRGe chip, which accelerates three-dimensional DOS and Windows (including forthcoming Direct3D) applications. The four companies, Diamond Multimedia, Number Nine Visual Technologies, Orchid (a Micronics company), and STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box Systems expect to release these boards for about $200. Finalists: -- Fast Multimedia's AV Master, which develops broadcast quality video for under $1000. -- Virtuality's Elysium Ultrascaler, a hardware platform for creating virtual reality applications. Best Multimedia Software DataPath's Realimation. This Windows-based environment lets you create virtual worlds and interactive 3D multimedia presentations that can run on a variety of operating systems. Finalists: -- NetPresenter's NetPresenter 2.0, a tool for creating networked multimedia presentations. -- Perceptix' Perweb+, a Web browser that lets you graphically create dynamic animated Web pages. Best Application Star Division's StarOffice. This multiplatform office suite delivers a consistent interface across Windows, OS/2, Power Mac, and Unix, and also offers Internet integration. Finalists: -- NewLog's Open Backup 3.0, a distributed, multiplatform backup application. -- Siemens Nixdorf's SmartAssist, a personal task and workflow tool for Windows. Best Development Software The ComUnity Open Technology Framework from Siemens-Nixdorf. ComUnity, a development environment for Microsoft's Visual Basic 4.0, provides a framework for building large-scale client/server applications. Finalists: -- Oberon Microsystem's Direct-to-COM compiler introduces "Safer OLE" technologies. -- Aladdin's HOPE provides granular version control for a team of C, C++, or Java developers. -0- BYTE is the global technical authority for computing experts. BYTE serves the information needs of technically astute buyers and purchase agenda setters by providing award-winning, in-depth coverage of emerging technologies, leading-edge products, and interoperability for enterprise-wide computing. Founded in 1975, BYTE reaches more than half a million subscribers and newsstand readers in 151 countries through its monthly Worldwide Edition. And, BYTE reaches another 421,000 readers through its locally published editions in eighteen of the world's key IT markets. BYTE is part of the Computers and Communications Information Group of the McGraw-Hill Companies. 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