NetSupport School Announced as the 2010 Winner of Tech and Learning Magazine’s 28th Annual Awards of Excellence Winner Within the Best Upgraded Product Category

Atlanta, GA, November 06, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Tech & Learning, a magazine published by New Bay Media recognized tools that enhance education with their Awards of Excellence program. The products are divided into two categories: New Products and Best Upgraded Products. The products are then judged by EdTech experts from the New York City Department of Education and the University of Michigan.

NetSupport School was credited with winning for the 6th consecutive year in the Best Upgraded Products category, thus fortifying once again NetSupport’s market leading position.

CEO of NetSupport Inc, Marcus Kingsley, expressed his gratification with the award announcement commenting, “It is satisfying to be continually recognized for best upgraded product as NetSupport constantly strives to evolve the product to meet the ever changing needs of the education sector. Specifically over the past year, greater focus has been placed on providing unrivalled support for thin and zero client environments which are being increasingly adopted due to the associated cost saving benefits, evidenced by our ongoing involvement with the Microsoft Windows Multipoint Server initiative and growing relationships with Wyse Technology, NComputing and Intel (Classmate PC Ecosystem Alliance) . ”

NetSupport School v10.5 offers an effective classroom management “centralized” product; in other words one solution that monitors student activity, both visually and audibly, provides printer and application controls, presentation tools, whiteboard, device control, full wireless support and much more. Further enhancements include the introduction of its unique Technician console, allowing school and district support staff to discretely connect to and troubleshoot any PC without disrupting the class itself, ensuring equipment downtime is kept to an absolute minimum.

About NetSupport
Headquartered in the UK with subsidiaries in The USA, Canada and Germany, 2009 saw NetSupport celebrating its 20th year as a leading supplier of Desktop and Network Management software to both corporate and education customers.

Specializing in the development and promotion of commercial software packages to manage and support Local and Wide Area Computer Networks, its flagship products are the highly successful NetSupport Manager Remote Control & PC Management application and NetSupport School, an interactive classroom and training software solution, recently announced as the winner of the 2009 Tech and Learning awards of excellence, the 2009 “Best in Tech” winner by District Administrator magazine and for a third successive year winner of a BESSIE in the “Best Teacher Tools” category from ComputED learning.

NetSupport and its derivatives are sold worldwide and enjoy market-leading status in many countries, with a worldwide install base exceeding 8 million desktops. NetSupport is recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in The EU, consistently included within the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Awards (6 years running) and was recently voted the #1 UK Technology Exporter (European Technology Forum).

NetSupport are a member of BESA and were named ICT Exporter of the Year at the 2009 BETT (British Education and Training Technology) Awards.

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