Imagiworks Wins ``Best of Show'' Award At Macworld Expo For Innovative Palm Computer-Based Data Acquisition Product.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1999--Imagiworks(TM), LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , today announced it is the winner of one of the best of show awards given out by the NE Macintosh & Internet User Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f Group for innovative products at Macworld Expo. Imagiworks won the award for imagiLab(TM), Palm(R) computer-based science laboratories. The award was given out by the NE Macintosh & Internet User Group, formerly known as the Boston Computer Society's Macintosh User Group See MUG. . The group gave out its first award at Macworld Expo Boston in 1994. Conceived by Tom Carrolan, the award caught on after he wrote about it in The Active Window, the magazine of the Boston Computer Society's Macintosh User Group. The NE Macintosh & Internet User Group continues to honor innovative and "cool" products at Macworld Expo in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Boston. "To have our products placed among the best out of 450 exhibitors is truly an honor, " says Dr. Wayne Grant, managing partner of Imagiworks. "Imagiworks is dedicated to designing easy-to-use, mobile data acquisition products for K-12, higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. and industry. The NE Macintosh & Internet User Group has a long history as an 'innovator scout.' We couldn't be more pleased that it chose us to join the ranks of other 'cool' products at the show." The NE Macintosh & Internet User Group gives out a maximum of 20 Best of Show awards at each Macworld Expo. Last year's Best of Show winners included the Palm III The Palm III was the first PDA in the Palm III lineup and is also Palm Computing's first handheld to support infrared file transfer and a Flash ROM capable operating system. The first Palm IIIs went on sale in 1998. Computer from 3Com, the PowerBook G3 and QuickTime 3.0 from Apple Computer, CyberStudio from Go Live, and Blast Online from Disney. ImagiLabs are fun, practical and affordable mobile computer-based science labs that let students collect and visually analyze a variety of real-world data at home, school, at a nearby pond, or wherever scientific inquiry takes them (See Press Release 1/4/99: Imagiworks(TM) Brings Data Acquisition to Palm(R) Computers). Compatible with both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, imagiLabs run on Palm Pilot and Palm III Computers. A single imagiLab solution will be priced for less than $600, including a Palm III Computer. ImagiLabs are expected to ship in March, and can be ordered directly from Imagiworks via its web site (www.Imagiworks.com), or by calling 800/929-6767. The product is based on imagiProbe(TM), technology that brings exciting advances in data acquisition to mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings products. The company plans to license its technology to developers interested in creating other vertical market applications. Imagiworks is part of the Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ) Education District, and the Science and Technology section of Apple Developer Central at Macworld Expo, which runs through today at Moscone Convention Center. ImagiProbe and imagilab are trademarks of Imagiworks, LLC. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Palm is a registered trademark of 3Com. All other products and brand names are registered trademarks of their respective companies. Imagiworks, LLC Nevada City Highway, Suite 203 Grass Valley, CA 95945 650/938-7451 www.imagiworks.com. |
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