New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - January 25, 2006 - The online information resource for Internet and IT professionals, SmallBusinessComputing.com, has announced the winners of the SmallBusinessComputing.com 2006 Excellence in Technology Award honors.

The winners were selected by the readers at SmallBusinessComputing.com.

According to Dan Muse, Executive Editor of Internet.com's Small Business Channel, ''When it comes to technology decisions, small businesses can't afford to get it wrong. So we weren't surprised to see that readers continue to gravitate toward proven brands. However, there was a notable change this year. While perennial winners such as Hewlett Packard and Dell again captured multiple awards, voters also recognized the impact Google has made on small businesses.

The awards by category are as follows:

E-COMMERCE

Storefront: Yahoo Small Business

Web Hosting: (tie) GoDaddy Web Hosting and Register.com Build-It-For-Me

Customer service: Register.com

Web Analytics: Webtrends 7.5

Search Engine Marketing: Google Adwords

Affiliate Program: Google AdSense

SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

Productivity: Corel WordPerfect Office 12 - Small Business Edition

Accounting: Intuit QuickBooks Premier 2006

Graphics: Adobe Creative Suite CS2e

Sales/CRM: Sage ACT! 2006

Collaboration: WebEx WebOffice Workgroup

Web-based tool: Google GMail

HARDWARE

Notebook: PC: Dell Latitude D610

Desktop PC: Dell Dimension 5100C

Black and White Printer: HP LaserJet 1020: 1165

Color Printer: HP Color LaserJet 2600n

Multifunction Device: HP Color LaserJet 2820 All-in-One series

Digital Camera: Canon PowerShot S80

Storage: Maxtor OneTouch III

Server: Dell PowerEdge 830 (dual-core option)

SECURITY

Wireless: Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster

System: McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006

Data Backup: Symantec Backup Exec 10d and Symantec LiveState Recovery

The complete list of winners and finalists is available on SmallBusinessComputing.com (www.smallbusinesscomputing.com).