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Sperry Marine,
a Northrop Grumman business unit headquartered
in Charlottesville, introduced its next-generation
integrated bridge system for ships. Vision FT
incorporates the latest advances in marine navigation
technology and combines navigation sensors and
systems into a single package. (01/15/04, Press
release)America Online,
a Dulles-based Internet services provider, announced
plans to begin supplying anti-spyware software
to subscribers as security against programs that
secretly track online habits of computer users.
Earthlink is the only other major Internet service
that does so. (01/06/04, The Washington Post)PICS,
a Reston research and development company that
uses technology to assess and improve health behaviors,
released an aid for smokers seeking to quit called
QuitKey ™. The handheld computer tracks
a smoker’s habit and tailors a plan to gradually
reduce tobacco consumption. (12/22/03, PRNewswire)
Language Analysis Systems,
a Herndon-based developer of name recognition
software, has released Name Variation Generator
™ 2.0, a software utility to generate
alternative spellings of names, to facilitate
translation of names from other cultures into
English. (12/16/03, Business Wire)
