USER NEWS.Byline: Daily News ELECTRONIC ENDORSEMENT: Thousand Oaks-based YearDisc Systems, which makes a do-it-yourself yearbook-on-CD software package for high schools and colleges, said its product has been endorsed by the Business Professionals of America Business Professionals of America (Also known as BPA) is both a student and professional organization that aims to develop leadership, academic, and technological skills in the workplace among students and leaders within the community. , an association that helps students prepare for careers in the business world. The 2,700-school organization will recommend that its members adopt the YearDisc system in their yearbook plans. NAME CHANGE: Van Nuys-based Audio Navigation Systems A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. , a maker of voice-activated mobile navigation systems, said it has changed its name to Pronounced Technologies to ``better reflect the potential'' of the company's technology. The firm said it is planning to release a navigation system this spring that lets users speak to the combination global positioning system-map database. NEW SITE: Woodland Hills-based Perceptronics Inc. said it has launched a new Web site at www.ic3d.perceptronics.com to provide developers and the public with more information on its Internet-based 3D graphics environment. The company is in the process of commercializing 3D technology developed by the military for battle simulations. The company and some analysts believe the technology has potential for online gaming See gaming. applications. OH, SAND-E!: Westlake Village-based Sandpiper sandpiper, common name for some members of the large family Scolopacidae, small shore birds, including the snipe and the curlew. Sandpipers are wading birds with relatively long legs and long, slender bills for probing in the sand or mud for their prey—all Networks Inc. said it has signed a deal to provide Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the support to E! Online, the cable television channel's Web site. Sandpiper provides a network of computer servers that make multiple mirror copies of a Web site, preventing slowdowns during periods of high traffic. When one site becomes congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. , Sandpiper's system redirects users to a less busy site. |
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