Compaq Notebook wins BYTE Magazine's Best of PC EXPO Award.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 1996--Compaq Computer's Armada 4100, a notebook PC that satisfies the needs of a wide range of users, won BYTE Magazine's Best of Show award. The award is part of the PC EXPO '96 awards, co-sponsored with Blenheim Group. The Armada, which was also the winner in the extremely competitive Best Portable category winner, is a notebook that you can transform from a 1.5-inch thin, five-pound notebook up to a full multimedia notebook (Houston-based Compaq can be reached at 713-514,0484 or www.compaq.com). Finalists were Texas Instruments' high-end TravelMate 6030 (street price at $4999) that weighs six pounds (Temple, Texas, 817-774-6001 or www.ti.com) and Toshiba's Portege 650CT, which fits an 11.3-inch active-matrix screen and other features into a 4.8-pound package (Irvine, Calif., 800-999-4273 or http://computers.toshiba.com). Best Technology winner was Sony Electronic's AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape (storage) Advanced Intelligent Tape - (AIT) A form of magnetic tape and drive using AME developed by Sony for storing large amounts of data. An AIT can store over 50 gigabytes and transfer data at six megabytes/second (in February 1999). ), which features the Memory in Cassette (MIC) and drive interface system. With MIC, a 16Kbit memory chip that's built into the data cartridge holds system log and other information for better performance and reliability (Tape Streamer Products Division, San Jose, Calif., 800-352-7669). The Best New Application winner, Corel's WordPerfect Suite 7 for Windows 95, won in part for its excellent Internet connectivity (Orem, Utah, 801-765-4010 or www.corel.com). Finalists were two voice dictation products: IBM's Voice Type Dictation 3.0 for Win 95 (Boca Raton, Fla., 800-TALK-2-ME or www.ibm.com/products) and Dragon System's DragonDictate 2.5 for Windows (800-TALKTYP or www.dragonsys.com), as well as Macromedia's xRes 2 photo image editing program See image editor. for Windows (San Francisco, 415-252-2000 or www.macromedia.com). Sony Electronics (Park Ridge, N.J., 800-222-SONY or www.sony.com) won Best Multimedia Hardware for its Digital Video Still-Image PC Capture Board ($799), the DVBK-1000. It lets you transfer high quality images from a Sony Digital Handycam directly to a PC without the need for analog conversion. Finalists were the Color QuickCam, a $229 color digital video camera from Connectix (800-950-5880) and RealMagic Ultra, a $399 MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). playback board with optional TV connectivity, by Sigma Designs (Fremont, Calif., 510-770-0100 or www.realmagic.com). In the Multimedia Software category, Fractal Design's Expression natural media, vector-based drawing program with support for animation won. Expression ($449, Aptos, Calif., 800-297-COOL or www.fractal.com) is available in Windows and the Mac versions. Multimedia software www.delorme.com) and Corel Click and Create, a $695 multimedia authoring tool (613-728-0826 or www.corel.com). The award for Best Connectivity Hardware went to Apex Data, a division of SMART Modular Technologies, for its ClipperCom World 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. fax/modem that has a new technology to work with the phone systems in 31 countries (Fremont, Calif., 510-623-1231, e-mail, apexdata@smartm.com). Finalists were Zyxel's $1095 Prestige 28641 ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Router, bridge, terminal adapter, and analog modem (Anaheim, Calif., 714-693-0808 or www.zyxel.com) and Adtran's $449 Express XRT XRT A symbol used specifically upon the consolidated tape to indicate a security trading ex-rights. Notes: Typically, a stock will depreciate in price immediately after rights offering expires. ISDN modem (Huntsville, Ala., 205-971-8000 or www.adtran.com). Winner of the Best Connectivity Software award was White Pine Software's TCP/IP-based Enhanced CU-SeeMe person-to-person and group video conferencing program (Nashua, N.H., 603-886-9050 or www.cu-seeme.com). Finalists were Show n Tel, an application development kit for creating telephony applications from Brooktrout Technology (Needham, Mass., 617-449-4100) and Castelle's FaxPress Macintosh Software Option for the company's network fax solutions (Santa Clara, Calif., 408-496-0474 or www.castelle.com). Stratus's fault-tolerant RADIO PC Cluster server won Best System (Stratus also won Best System at COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Spring '96). Finalists were DeskStation Technology's 500-MHz Alpha CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. version of the Raptor ReFlex Windows NT workstation (Lenexa, Kan., 800-793-3375 or www.dti.com), and Sony's PC Video Audio Integrated Operation Pentium-based multimedia PC family (Park Ridge, N.J., 800-222-SONY or www.sony.com). Cheyenne Software's ARCserve 6 backup, restore, and disaster recovery for Windows NT that supports Win, Mac, Unix OS/2, and NetWare clients, won Best Utility (Lake Success, N.Y., 800-243-9462 or www.cheyenne.com). Norton Your Eyes Only, an on-the-fly file encryption utility from Symantec ($89.95, Cupertino, Calif., 800-441-7234 or www.symantec.com) and Adobe Systems' $49 ATM Deluxe 4.0 Type I and TrueType font management program (Mountain View, Calif., 800-682-3623 or www.adobe.com) were finalists. The NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Superscript Any letter, digit or symbol that appears above the line. For example, 10 to the 9th power is written with the 9 in superscript (109). Contrast with subscript. 860, an 8 ppm, 600 dpi laser printer, is the first to ship with Adobe PrintGear, which adds application independent features and intelligence at an affordable price (NEC Technologies, Boxborough, Mass., 800-632-4650 or www.nec.com). The finalists were IBM's new laser printers from its network printer group (White Plains, N.Y., 914-924-4675 or www.ibm.com) and Mannesman Tally's T7070 Color Ink Jet, which creates high quality printout on 17.5- by 22.5-inch paper (Kent, Wash., 800-843-1347 or www.tally.com). Best Peripheral winner was Viewsonic's P815, a 21-inch monitor (Walnut, Calif., 909-444-8800). Peripheral finalists were InFocus' SuperVGA LitePro 620 Projector (Wilsonville, Ore., 503-685-8888 or www.infs.com) and Epson's small footprint PhotoPlus Color Scanner (Torrance, Calif., 310-782-0770 or www.epson.com). The Best Internet Product winner, HAHT Software's HAHTSite, lets you create, develop, deploy and manage Web applications (Raleigh, N.C., 800-996-3222 or www.haht.com). Maximum Information's Intrachange Web Management software for managing multiple sites (San Francisco, 415-981-5800 or www.maxinfo.com) and Folio Web Retriever retriever: see sporting dog. retriever Any of several dog breeds, bred to retrieve game, that have a thick, water-resistant coat, keen sense of smell, and “soft” mouth that does not damage game. Retrievers are 22–24 in. 2.0, an offline 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. that indexes pages (Provo, Utah, 800-543-6546 or www.folio.com), were finalists. The Emissary EMISSARY. One who is sent from one power or government into another nation for the purpose of spreading false rumors and to cause alarm. He differs from a spy. (q.v.) Host Publishing System (EHPS EHPS Electro-Hydraulic Power Steering (automotive) EHPS European Health Psychology Society ), Bellevue, Washington-based Attachmate's Web deployment extension to its Extra Developer Series of products, won Best Development software (800-426-6283 or www.attachmate.com). Finalists were Blue Sky Software's Visual SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. development tool that turns Visual C++ into a full-blown, client/server development environment (La Jolla, Calif., 619-459-6365 or www.blue-sky.com) and StarBase's StarTeam Server 2.0, a software server that engenders distributed development among groups of software programmers (888-Star700 or www.starbasecorp.com). BYTE is the global authority for computing technology. 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 locally published editions in 18 of the world's key IT markets. BYTE is part of the Computers and Communications Information Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Other McGraw-Hill publications and information services which serve this market include LAN Times, Data Communications, tele.com, Datapro, NSTL (National Software Testing Lab, Blue Bell, PA, www.nstl.com) An independent organization established in 1983 that evaluates computer hardware and software in the PC, mobile and gaming markets. It adheres to controlled testing methods to ensure objective results. (National Software Testing Laboratories National Software Testing Laboratories, or NSTL, is an American company, established in 1983, which tests computer hardware and software. The company provides certification (such as WHQL and Microsoft Windows Mobile certification), quality assurance, and benchmarking ), Northern Business Information, and Business Week. PC EXPO is produced and managed by Blenheim Group USA Inc., based in Fort Lee, N.J., and is part of Blenheim Group PLC, the world's leading independent producer of conferences and exhibitions. Attendees can access available information about all of Blenheim's I.T. shows at the ShowNet site on the World Wide Web, at http://www.shownet.com. CONTACT: BYTE Magazine Mark Schlack, Editor in Chief 603/924-2604 (Phone) 603/924-2550 (Fax) mschlack@bix.com |
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