These folks come in with their big tractor-trailers full of music gear and stage equipment and all that other stuff--this is some thing I didn't learn in the cable business.

FORBES: In My Own Words

It's been an awfully long time now to be out there with no life-saving gear, in big seas and in such temperatures.

BBC: Two missing in storms

Let's get this out the way right here and now: to the best of our knowledge, Apple doesn't really provide pre-release units to accessories partners -- even the big ones -- to help them get their products out the door faster when new gear drops.

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It guaranteed that telecom startups could "co-locate" their new high-speed gear at the facilities of big, old phone companies.

FORBES: LET'S TRY CAPITALISM

Hook-up the Razer Edge to the big screen with multiple gamepad controllers and Razer gear and tag team PC games with your friends for a complete home console experience.

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"I sleep on the sidewalk for the garage sale every year, " gushes gear- junkie Allison Birchwood, 32, referring to REI's big biannual sale.

FORBES: Backpackers meet bottom line

This would be bad for the big telecoms-equipment firms, such as Ericsson, Nokia-Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent, which sell the gear used in today's networks.

ECONOMIST: Mobile telecoms

The result is a compact unit with two Humvee-size primary wheels for one soldier or more and up to a 2, 000-pound pallet of gear, extending with today's technologies into also being a soldier's ready robot - big robot - to take on high risk tasks, scouting maneuvers, resupply or deception tactics.

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