Award Background

ZD Net's Outstanding Product and Technology Award is an annual IT Product recognition chosen by integrating ZDnet's CIO readers' choices and careful consideration by chief edictors from each technical channel on product launches in all fiedls and specialties. The awarded products often represent the best performing products in their own fields or are innovative creations capturing latest product ideologies that have positive effects to their industry. This annual honor was started in 1997, the year that ZDnet entered the Chinese market. It has since become the most recognized and renowned meida award.