Viigo Achieves Industry Acclaim, Winning both the CNET and PC Magazine Editors’ Choice Awards
Viigo recognized as being the best available choice for quality, performance, design, service and value by leading technology influencers
(May 7, 2009) – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, today announced that it has received Editors’ Choice Awards from both CNET and PC Magazine’s for its Viigo for BlackBerry product.
CNET Editors’ Choice winners are recognized as top software products in their respective technology categories, and contribute to the standard by which all future software products are judged. A key selection requirement is that it must also change the competitive landscape of its market, whether through innovative features, exceptional value for the price, remarkable ease of use, or a demonstrable boost to the lives of its users.
“Viigo has certainly matured since its early days. While it now grabs weather, financial news, flight status, and sports scores in addition to your news and blog feeds, it’s still at its core the fastest, most complete RSS reader for BlackBerry,” said Jessica Dolcourt, associate editor at CNET. “To users’ eternal benefit, Viigo makes finding, subscribing to, and adding your own newsfeeds extremely simple with a long list of presets, browsable categories, and a way to add favorite RSS URLs, even from aggregators.”
To view the CNET review, please visit http://tinyurl.com/d3z7sm.
Viigo also received the Editors’ Choice Award from PC Magazine, earning 4.5 stars, “Very Good” rating, in a 5 star rating system.
“RSS readers are nothing new, but Viigo has raised the category to an art form on mobile devices,” said Jamie Lendino, Contributing Editor of PC Magazine. “This app is good enough to make me a convert, especially on mobile devices—and that’s saying something.”
To view the PC Magazine review, please visit http://tinyurl.com/c76lpk.
“Viigo is incredibly proud to have been recognized as the premium application in our market,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “Positive evaluations from influential organizations such as CNET and PC Magazine are a result of the tremendous effort put forth by the amazing team we have here at Viigo. We continuously and rapidly innovate, driven by the feedback of our fast growing user community, in order to ensure that our application will always be at the leading edge.”