PC World has released its list of winners for the 25 Most Innovative Product Awards.

PC World’s editor-in-chief and VP, Harry McCracken said in a press release, “PC World’s 25 Most Innovative Product Awards honor the technology that has reshaped our expectations for the products we use to work, connect, and play with.

“Our team sorted through hundreds of products to find the 25 most impressive devices and services that stood out among the competition in terms of design, functionality, and originality. We’ve seen some major breakthroughs this year, from cutting edge Web apps that simplify daily tasks, to computers that provide fresh takes on what a PC can be,” McCracken said.

The companies which have been short listed by PC World are those which have used advanced technology to provide an innovative product, ranking high in usefulness and overall capabilities. The product categories which were considered varied from a touch-screen laptop and power-saving hard drives to a money management web site.

The inclusion of a music group which innovated and offered a new way to purchase its albums online also finds mention in the list of ground breaking industry standards selected by PC World.

For an overview of the winners of the 2008 PC World 25 Most Innovative Product Awards, visit www.pcworld.com/article/id,140663/article.html.

PC World will felicitate the winning products at the ShowStoppers Media Reception to be held during CES (News - Alert) on January 7, 2008 at Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.

The PC World awardees includes the product Google Gears from Google at top slot followed by Apple’s (News - Alert) iPhone, One Laptop per Child (OLPC XO Notebook), Amazon Kindle, AT&T Tilt, Toshiba Portege R500, Microsoft’s Popfly.com, Ask.com and Kodak’s Easy Share All-in-one Printers to name a few.

PC World is read by about 4 million people who are regular users of technology products whether at home or at work. PC World is the winner of the 2007 Maggie Award for Best Computer Magazine. It is published by PC World Communictaions, Inc. a subsidiary of International DATA Group (IDG) a technology, media, events and research company.

PCWorld.com also published by PC World Communications, Inc is the winner of the 2007 ASBPE (American Society of Business Publication Editors) award for Best B2B Web Publication of the year and is the associated web site which is visited by 6.8 million people on an average every month.

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Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

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