The eight products in the "Browsers and Web Utilities" category were:

• Egress, from GarishKernels
  
• EzWap, from Ezos
  
• MultiIE, from Southway
  
• NetFront, from Access
  
• PIEPlus, from ReenSoft
  
• PocketRSS from HJR Solutions
  
• Skweezer 2.0, from Greenlight Wireless
  
• ThunderHawk 2.0 Pocket PC Edition, from Bitstream

Pocket PC Magazine says its annual Best Software Awards are intended to help users select the software that best suits their Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, and Smartphone needs by recognizing vendors that produce outstanding software.

About NetFront

Access claims its NetFront browser is the most widely deployed and actively used browser in the "beyond-PC" market, supporting more OS platforms and devices than any competing browser in the market. According to Access, NetFront has been deployed in over 139 devices, including mobile phones, PDAs, digital TVs, gaming consoles, and automobile telematics systems from 90 major Internet device manufacturers. In addition to Windows Mobile, NetFront also supports Palm, Symbian, Linux, and BREW. Further information about NetFront is available here.

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