CMP's Dr. Dobb's Opens Nominations for the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence AwardsPrestigious Industry Awards will Honor the Best Software Development Products of 2007PRNewswire SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Dobb's today announced that nominations for the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards are now open. Each year, the Jolt Product Excellence Awards, sponsored by Dr. Dobb's, acknowledges those products, books and technologies that "jolt" the industry with their significance. Finalists will be announced in December 2007, and the Jolt Award winners will be announced on March 5, 2008 at SD West Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Last year more than 300 nominations for books, tools, and technologies were submitted for the coveted trophies, and this year's competition promises to be just as tough. "The Jolt judges look for the most innovative and useful products in each category," said Jolt Awards Manager Amber Ankerholz. "The winning Jolt products typically define a category or solve a problem in a new way." This year's categories are: Nominations may be submitted online at http://www.joltawards.com/ until December 3rd, 2007. More information on the Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards is available at http://www.joltawards.com/. About Dr. Dobb's: Dr. Dobb's (http://www.ddj.com/) is recognized worldwide as the leading resource for the professional software development community. With an award-winning monthly publication (Dr. Dobb's Journal), world-wide technical events and conferences (Dr. Dobb's Events) and one of the web's most comprehensive sites (Dr. Dobb's Portal), Dr. Dobb's attracts the industry's most authoritative audience of professional developers, architects and managers and provides marketing partners highly actionable integrated marketing solutions to reach the software development buying team. About CMP: CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developer Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to http://cmp.com/news. Contact: SOURCE: CMP CONTACT: Jenny Searles, Marketing Manager of Dr. Dobb's Group, Web site: http://www.cmp.com/ |