Representatives of several companies, including MCI WorldCom and RoadRunner, expressed interest in the clearinghouse.
Their task was to choose the more appropriate name for the sixth generation: either RoadRunner 660 or StreetPilot.
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"Even in death, we are trying to learn from Roadrunner, " said Mr Grider.
When the list only included improvements on existing features, 61.3 percent of participants choose RoadRunner 660 as the preferred name.
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Disney has Infoseek and Time Warner has Roadrunner -- small potatoes.
The greater roadrunner has been shifting eastward into Arkansas from the west, and the white wing dove has been moving into Arkansas from the south-west.
Coyote, in his furious but half-witted attempts to take down Roadrunner.
Gone are such marques as the Speedwagon, the Bearcat, the Delta 88 and the Roadrunner, as well as more deserving-to-be-buried names like the Pinto, the Edsel and the Gremlin.
And if 6 billion people used calculators 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what Roadrunner covers in a day.
Participants learned that the firm Garmin had adopted a sequential naming approach for the first five generations of its in-car GPS receiver, from RoadRunner 610 to RoadRunner 650.
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Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.
It's presumed that most EarthLink subscribers are looking for simpler and cheaper online access as alternatives to the in-your-face consumerism proffered to Microsoft's 8 million MSN subscribers and AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) 33.2 million America Online and Roadrunner subscribers.
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