First Biometric IBM Thinkpad Receives TECHXNY Best of Show Award

IBM today announced the ThinkPad T42 notebook with integrated fingerprint reader received the Best of Show award in the Best Security Solution category at New York's Technology Week -- TECHXNY. The Best of Show Awards Program recognizes the most innovative personal technology and corporate IT products, solutions and programs at the event, conducted October 5-7 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.

"This award recognizes IBM's focus on PC security," said Deepak Advani, vice president, Marketing and Strategy, IBM Personal Computing Division. "In today's on demand world, security has moved beyond the frequently annoying installation of software patches. It is now a universal issue requiring attention at all levels of business. ThinkPad T42 with the fingerprint reader, along with the embedded security chip, takes security to a whole new level."

Judges for the program included editors and leading journalists from leading information technology and business outlets, including: Rieva Lesonsky, Editor, Entrepreneur; Fred Paul, Editor in Chief, TechWeb; Mitch Wagner, Editor, Security Pipeline; Lucas Mearian, Computer Storage Reporter, Computerworld; Todd Spangler, Senior Editor, Baseline; Jeff O'Heir, Editor, Digital Connect Magazine; Grant Clauser, Editorial Director, Consumer Technology Publishing Group; Scot Finnie, Editor, TechWeb Network; Harry McCracken, Editor In Chief, PC World; Brian Bennett, Computer Hardware Staff Editor, Computer Shopper; Steve Fox, Editor In Chief, InfoWorld; Ron Anderson, Lab Director, Network Computing; Rusty Weston, Editor, Managing Offshore; Mike Vizard, Editor in Chief, CRN; and Bob DeMarzo, Editorial Director, VARBusiness.

Only exhibiting companies at New York's Technology Week were eligible to be considered for a Best of Show Award. In order to qualify, companies had to be announcing a new business IT product/solution or demonstrating it for the first time at the event. To decide the award winners, journalists from leading information technology and business outlets reviewed the best of show submissions.

About IBM ThinkPad

IBM ThinkPad continues to deliver enhancements, innovations and solutions that shape and define the mobile computing industry. Since the launch of the ThinkPad 700C in 1992, these acclaimed notebook computers have been recognized as design and engineering models, winning more than 1,000 industry awards worldwide. For more information, see http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/thinkpad/tseries/index.html.

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