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Creative Zone's Entertainment Arcade awarded "G1 Award"

The GameMasters, a new awards based web site has picked Creative Zone’s Entertainment Arcade as the top 5% of all PC games related web sites on the Internet - the "G1 Award". The Entertainment Arcade was said to have "contributed greatly to the development of computer gaming and simulation". Check it out !

Creative Introduces Graphic Blaster Multimedia Accelerator Cards

Creative's new line of Graphic Blaster brings high performance graphics and high quality enhanced video playback at an unprecedented low price. The three models : MA302, MA202 and MA201 features high-performance 64-bit accelerator technology.

Click here to read the press release.

Creative Labs Products Rank #1 again

In Merisel's 3/18/96 Hot List, Creative Labs products rank #1 again!!!
  1. #1 among all Retail and VAR storage products - Value 4X
  2. #1 among all Retail and VAR add-in boards - SB 16 Value IDE
  3. #1 among all Consumer Product add-in boards - SB 16 Value IDE
  4. #2 among all Consumer Product add-in boards - MB 28.8 External

Creative Zone is Microsoft Pick of the Week

Barely one and a half months old and the newly revamped Creative Zone is Microsoft Network’s (MSN) Top Pick of the Week (13 - 19 Mar) in the Computers and Technology category.According to the MSN Webmaster, the Creative Zone is “ an exceptional World Wide Web site”, and the Zone’s “music pub and entertainment arcade are good places to chill”. So why’re you still here?

Creative Sets Up Headquarters in Canada

Creative’s Canadian headquarters located in Toronto began operations on 27th February 1996. The setting up of the headquarters is in response to the growing demand for Creative’s products in the region.

Canadian customers can look forward to localized software documentation and specialized customer support lines in English and French, the country’s two official languages. Creative will also design product packaging and localize marketing and advertising support programs in both languages.

Click here for full press release

Creative's Modem Blaster Tops Ingram Micro's Best Seller List

Yep it’s true. Modem Blaster 28.8 (internal) is a chart topper, outselling even U.S. Robotics Sportster 28.8 which ranked number 5 in Ingram Micro’s February ‘96 best seller list (communications hardware category).

For 2nd - 5th place holders check out the list below:

Rank - - -Weeks - - - - - - -Which Modem - - - - - - - - - - - - -Manufacturer
1 - - - - - - - 12 - - - - - - - - - -Modem Blaster 28.8 Int - - - - - - -Creative Labs
2 - - - - - - - - 4 - - - - - - - - - -Sportster 14.4 Ext - - - - - - - - - - U.S. Robotics
3 - - - - - - - - 4 - - - - - - - - - -28.8 Int 14.4S/R Fax V.34 - - - - -Megahertz
4 - - - - - - - 20 - - - - - - - - - -Sportster 14.4 Int - - - - - - - - - - -U.S. Robotics
5 - - - - - - - - 8 - - - - - - - - - -Sportster 28.8 V.34 - - - - - - - - - U.S. Robotics

Click hereto find out what makes Modem Blaster 28.8 (internal) such a hot product.

Ingram Micro Inc. is the world's largest wholesale distributor of microcomputerproducts with an inventory that includes 34,000 products from more than 1,000of the world's top hardware and software companies.
To visit the Ingram Micro Website

Creative Zone Awarded with Magellan 4-Star Rating

The Creative Zone is a 4-STAR site according to Magellan, a popular navigational and internetdirectory of more than 2 million sites on the World Wide Web.

According to the Magellan editorial team, the Creative Zone “has excelled in our rigorousreview process, in which we consider three primary factors : depth of content, ease ofexploration, and Net appeal.”

Here’s how the Zone scored on each of the 3 counts:

  1. Net Appeal 9/10
  2. Depth Coverage 10/10
  3. Ease of Exploration 9/10

Based on the Magellan rating system, sites are awarded from 1 to 4 Stars, with the highestscore being 4 Stars. So far about 40,000 sites have been reviewed and rated by Magellan’seditorial team.

For how some computer and related sites fared under the Magellan star rating system, readon.

Magellan is a navigational and internet directory of the McKinley Group. The Group wasfounded in 1993 by a team of international publishers, technologists, and informationspecialists committed to delivering the best navigational and informational directory for the net.Click here for more information on the McKinley Group.
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