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Ruger Security Six

The Ruger Security Six and its variants, the Service Six and Speed Six are a product line of double action revolvers introduced in 1972 and manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Company.


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3ware

In April 2004, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) acquired 3ware for $150 million in cash and became an AMCC product line brand (manufacturing RAID controllers for Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, and Parallel ATA devices).

Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband

In 2007 end-to-end AMR-WB TrFO capable 3G & VoIP product line was commercially released by NSN (M13.6 MSS, U3C MGW).

Adobe Engagement Platform

The Adobe Engagement Platform was the announced name of the product line resulting from the merger of Macromedia Flash with Adobe Acrobat.

ArsDigita Community System

In 2001, the ACS code tree forked, with the Tcl code base being maintained and refactored by one group of developers, while the product line was being re-written in Java EE.

Artronix

The company later developed another product line of brain-scanning or computed tomography equipment based on the Lockheed SUE 16-bit minicomputer (see also Pluribus); later designs included an optional vector processor using AMD Am2900 bipolar bit-slices to speed tomographic reconstruction calculations.

Balance bar

The company's speedy growth caught the attention of Kraft Foods, which purchased the company for $268 million ($19.40 per share) in January 2000 as part of a strategy to expand its product line to natural foods.

Beechcraft

In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.

Blackline GPS

Blackline GPS has gone on to partner with Escort, re-branding their GPS Snitch product line under the Entourage brand and have announced a relationship with the American Red Cross to provide tracking and emergency service management for vehicles and personnel.

Chebeague Island, Maine

In 1997, the people of Chebeague were a significant part of a movement that managed to overturn Nabisco's decision to discontinue the "Crown Pilot Crackers" from its product line.

Clearwire

Several companies throughout the world use this same product line from Motorola, including Inukshuk Wireless Partnership of Canada, Beamspeed and Commspeed of Arizona, AccessTEL of Bangladesh, and Unitel of Guatemala.

Crowley's

Crowley’s changed its product line to feature more upmarket with lines by Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren aimed at the Hudson's or Lord & Taylor shopper.

Dornier 328

The resulting firm, named Fairchild-Dornier, manufactured the 328 family in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, conducted sales from San Antonio, Texas, United States, and supported the product line from both locations.

Fairchild Dornier 328JET

The resulting corporation, named Fairchild Dornier, continued the production of the 328 family in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, conducted sales from San Antonio, Texas, and supported the product line from both locations.

Funky Skunk

Funky Skunk, a mix album released in late summer 2005, has been framed within the project Public Works billed as a DJ Shadow/Obey reconstruction and co-production between Josh Davis (DJ Shadow) and Shepard Fairey, in concordance with a product line of shirts, stickers and box set.

George Devol

Later in the war, he approached Auto-Ordnance Company regarding products that company could produce aside from their primary product line, which were Thompson submachine guns.

Globalscape

That same year, the company launched its CuteFTP product line, an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client application for Windows and Mac platforms.

History of CP/CMS

This product line was intended to replace IBM's diverse earlier offerings, including the IBM 7000 series, the canceled IBM 8000 series, the IBM 1130 series, and various other specialized machines used for scientific and other applications.

HyperCloud Memory

:At Interop Las Vegas Netlist introduced the low voltage HyperCloud product line and demonstrated 4GB low voltage HyperCloud module in an IBM x3550 M3 server running at 1067 MT/s.

ICU Medical

ICU Medical acquired the former Abbott Laboratories Critical Care business from Hospira in 2009 following a four year business arrangement in which ICU acted as the manufacturer of the Hospira critical care product line.

Integrated Device Technology

In October, 2008, IDT purchased the video processing technology and related assets from Silicon Optix, including the Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) brand and the Reon product line.

Intel Play

The QX3TM Computer Microscope was a product in the Intel Play product line and was continued in the Digital Blue product line.

James Billmaier

Later in 1999 Billmaier became the founding CEO of Digeo, another Allen-funded company which acquired the Moxi product line in 2002.

Kandy Kakes

Kandy Kake is a product produced by the Tasty Baking Company as part of the Tastykake product line.

La Bella Beauty, Inc.

In 1992, A.C. Green of the Los Angeles Lakers was spokesperson for La Bella's African-American product line called Rebound Hair Care.

LG Life Sciences

The company’s earlier product line consisted of pyrethroid insecticides, including Cypermethrin, Deltamethrin, and Lambdacyhalothrin.

LocoScript

When the PCW product line was discontinued in 1998, The Daily Telegraph said that the range of independently produced add-on software for LocoScript had contributed to the series' longevity.

Moraine, Ohio

The plant continued to manufacture SUVs from the General Motors product line (Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Buick) until 2008 when the plant closed.

Nemetschek

The Vectorworks product line offers professional design solutions for architecture, interior construction, the entertainment industry, landscaping, landscape architecture and mechanical engineering.

Noritsu

Although Noritsu has typically produced minilabs that utilize traditional silver halide papers and photographic exposure systems, since 2003, in partnership with Epson, inkjet printing systems have been added to the product line.

Option N.V.

Currently, the product line-up consists of connect cards (for example, the GlobeTrotter HSDPA "7.2 Ready" data card), embedded wireless modules (for laptops and/or smartphones), fixed mobile devices (for example, a USB stick providing wireless broadband access via HSPA and UMTS networks) and software.

Paintball equipment

They include, for example, the Tippmann X7 and the U.S. Army developed Alpha Black (which resemble an M16), RAP4's T68 Paintball Markers (Which resemble the M4 Carbine, has an internal Air or CO2 tank and is magazine fed), or Smart Parts SP8 (based upon the German Heckler and Koch Prototype XM8, and much of the Armotech product line).

Pop Market

This new product line features complete artist catalogs on CD in a single box from legendary artists including the Byrds, Return to Forever, Sam Cooke, and Stan Getz.

Procera Networks

The company changed its product line when it merged with Netintact, a company based in Varberg, Sweden, that offered bandwidth management products to Scandinavian network operators under the PacketLogic brand.

Quinito Henson

His wife Menchu was a commercial spokesperson featured in Philippine advertisements for Nestlé's Maggi product line.

Rinker Group

Rinker Materials Corporation of West Palm Beach produces a number of concrete, aggregate and other heavy building products similar to the Australian product line in a number of US states, notably including Florida and Arizona.

SBJ House of Luxury

SBJ house of Luxury’s product line includes Bespoke Suits designed and manufactured by the Only Savile Row Certified production unit in India, where the tailors are well trained.

ScriptLogic

August, 2007 Quest Software acquired ScriptLogic Corporation, keeping Scriptlogic as a wholly owned subsidiary allowing Scriptlogic to continue to develop and support its product line.

Spinnaker Software

The first new product line was a collaboration with toy manufacturer Fisher-Price.

ST6

ST6/ST7, an 8-bit microcontroller product line from STMicroelectronics

Stedman Machine Company

During the Civil War years, 1861 to 1865, the company’s product line changed to support the war effort.

Steve Siegel

He successfully negotiated, secured and managed licensing for brands such as Nickelodeon’s Blues Clues, Mattel’s Barbie, Pokémon and Betty Boop and expanded the company’s product line into national retailers including Sears, Target, JCPenney and Toys "R" Us.

Stradalli Cycle

After the doping scandal involving Lance Armstrong, Stradalli Cycle offered Armstrong the role of design and testing consultant for Stradalli's 2014 product line.

TeleType Co., Inc.

From the MicroSetter product line evolved the T-Script PostScript interpreter (also referred to in the industry as a Raster image processor) which converted output from popular PostScript based WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) programs such as PageMaker, Microsoft Word and MacWrite to non PostScript printers which were much more economical at the time.

ThinkFun

Thinkfun has relied on a network of the world’s premier inventors, including Yoshigahara and Scott Kim, among others, to continue to develop their product line.

VMAX

EMC Symmetrix VMAX Series, a data storage product line from EMC Corporation

Wahl Clipper

In 2006 Wahl licensed the For Dummies brand from John Wiley & Sons publishing company and launched the Home Haircutting for Dummies product line.