The 2011 Readers' Choice Awards are over, the votes have been counted and the winners announced. Congratulations to the category winners for the Computing & Technology channel:

• Best Antivirus Software
• Browsers and Browser-Related Software
• Computer Hardware
• Desktop Publishing Software and Tools
• Email
• Family Computing
• Google
• IM
• Macs
• Personal Finance Software
• Presentation Software
• Web Design
• Web Search

Check out the awards website to find out about the other winners in the Readers' Choice Awards 2011.

Apple have released Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 4 (along with the corresponding Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 9). This is a security update release that includes the critical security fix dealt with in the Java 6 update 24 release from Oracle.

The update will come through the software updater or can be downloaded from the Apple downloads page.

If you've been playing with the JDK 7 Developer Preview release, you might want to follow the link posted on Joe Darcy's blog to the documentation covering Project Coin (small language changes to be included in JDK 7).

Note the documentation also contains discussions on design considerations and any known bugs with the current developer preview build.

There's less than a week to go before voting closes for the About.com Readers' Choice Awards 2011 - the polls close at the end of March 8th. The winners will be announced on March 15th.

The awards focusing on computing categories can be found under their overall site name: Antivirus Software, Desktop Publishing, Email, Financial Software, Google, Instant Messaging, Macs, PC Hardware, Web Browsers, Presentation Software, Web Design, Web Search.

Check out the awards website to find out more about the Readers' Choice Awards 2011.