'Tis the season for awards...and our friends at Pure Networks copped a big one with Network Magic being named one of the Best 100 Products in 2006 by PC World magazine. Congratulations to them...you can learn more about it in their Network Garage blog. And if you're a great CEO looking for a new home, Pure Networks is looking for you, along with multiple marketing and program managers. Drop them a resume.

-posted by Rachel

Gig Harbor-based CipherLab (which happens to be a VOXUS client!) grabbed one of the top prizes at last month's Retail Systems trade show. Integrated Solutions for Retailers magazine picked the company's deployment of a point-of-sale and inventory management solution at Emerson's Furniture in Brattleboro, VT as this year's Best In-Store System in the Small to Midsize Retail Solutions Award competition. This is especially notable since the technology deployment at Emerson's Furniture, a retailer not well-known outside of Vermont, was judged against installations at companies such as Camping World, Brooks Brothers and Aerosoles.

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Congrats to Seattle-based Isilon Systems. The company was named a winner in eWEEK magazine's Sixth Annual Excellence Awards program for its Isilon IQ clustered storage product. Earlier this year, the company was also selected as one of Bio-IT WORLD's top 50 picks for companies that are changing the way pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies conduct their businesses.

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Proving that there really ARE new ideas out there, Seattle's Pacarc has partnered with Japan's Design Barcode to deliver barcode art to the U.S. market. Custom designed barcodes take advantage of one of the last pieces of packaging "real estate" and enable manufacturers to get one more message in front of the consumer. Pacarc has produced a website where you can see a gallery of designs already in use.

-posted by Rachel