PC World Reveals Winners of the "100 Best Products of 2007" Awards.Editors Select the Top Products of the Year in Hardware, Software, Web Sites, and Services 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 -- PC World, the most widely-read computer or business magazine among total purchase influencers, today announced the winners of its annual "100 Best Products of 2007" Awards. The "100 Best Products of 2007" features the finest products and services of the past 12 months, from notebooks and security software to MP3 players and smartphones. The selections were based on exemplary design, features, performance, and innovation. The honorees were chosen after editors reviewed hundreds of products, including those that have appeared in the magazine over the last year. The article is available now on PCWorld.com at http://find.pcworld.com/57409 and will be on newsstands June 12. The "100 Best Products of 2007" winners list contains a wide range of products and services for work, home, and everywhere in between. The editors' picks reflect the ever-changing world of technology, with revolutionary products in various categories including media streaming devices, virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. software, navigation systems, and ultra-portable convertible notebooks. Topping the list at number one is Google Apps A collection of Google applications and utilities that is offered as a package either free or paid. In 2007, Google combined its e-mail, instant messaging, calendar, word processing, spreadsheet and Web authoring applications along with administration utilities into Standard and Premier Premier Edition, a Web application from Google. PC World editors noted, "Google is much more than just a search engine, and with its invaluable Google Apps suite, the company is well on its way to challenging Microsoft for productivity-suite supremacy." Many companies have multiple winners on the list; Apple leads the pack with six winning products, followed by Google with five. PC World also asked its online community to be a part of the story by selecting their picks for the "100 Best Products of 2007." The nine products designated as "Reader Favorites" among the top 100 Products include: Nintendo Wii, Parallels Desktop, Apple TV, Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite, Sling Media Sling Media Inc. is an American private company, specializing in audio and video placeshifting technology. The company is based in San Mateo, California. Their flagship product, the Slingbox, debuted on the US market on July 1, 2005. Slingbox Pro, Mozilla Firefox See Firefox. 2, Apple iPod nano A flash-based digital music player from Apple, introduced in 2005. Like larger iPod models, the nano has a color screen. Although the nano name suggests ultra-small "nanotechnology," the iPod shuffle is actually smaller. See iPod. , Apple MacBook Pro, and Check Point ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite. In addition, the "Most-Anticipated Products" are items that missed the cutoff date for the "100 Best Products," but will be coming out soon, such as the Apple iPhone, (June 2007), AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Phenom (summer 2007), Intel Penryn (Q1 2008), Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (October 2007), and Rock Band (Q4 2007). Special online-only features for "100 Best Products of 2007" are available now at PCWorld.com, including: the Top 20 Products of the Year slideshow at http://find.pcworld.com/57393, Readers' Picks for the Best Products of the Year slideshow at http://find.pcworld.com/57394, the Most-Anticipated Products of the Year slideshow at http://find.pcworld.com/57395, and a Best Products of 2007 video at http://find.pcworld.com/57392 in which PC World editors review and discuss the top 5 products. The complete list of ranked winners follows; the list is also available in alphabetical order at: http://find.pcworld.com/57410 [TABLE OMITTED] About PC World: PC World Communications, Inc. is the publisher of PC World, PCWorld.com, and home of the PC World Test Center. 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