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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Our demonstration with Roadrunner caused everyone to pay attention.
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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