Yet for all their tireless information-swapping, globocrats were caught napping by the financial crisis.
The established brands like Nike and Adidas were caught napping by the barefoot trend.
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But Iomega, not to be caught napping, offered its response Monday at Comdex.
Despite capacity upgrades, the exchange has been caught napping by the increase in trading volume that has accompanied a bull market.
Ballymena were in big trouble on 56 minutes when Garrett produced a clever finish with the home defence caught napping yet again.
And the visitors were caught napping straight from the kick off as they came close to going behind after just 12 seconds.
Walker was caught napping near the half-way line and dispossessed by Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, who played the ball into the path of Osman.
Ledley had a header saved by Esson early in the second half as Inverness were again caught napping from a Commons corner.
The handset market is split between companies with very aggressive new pricing plans (Samsung, Nokia, to some extent Motorola) and companies that were caught napping (HTC, RIM, LG).
The Dragons were caught napping midway through the half as Magnus Lund and Yachvili combined at the front of a line-out for the scrum-half to claim a soft, but well-worked try.
The Northern Ireland defence was caught napping as a cross from the right found the unmarked Dalovic at the backpost and the striker calmly slipped the ball into the bottom corner.
The Argentinian and O'Driscoll helped create Fitzgerald's third score and replacement hooker Fogarty secured the bonus point, crowning his home debut with a try after Edinburgh were caught napping at a lineout.
Chelsea were first to show when, after Everton right-back Tony Hibbert was caught napping in the fourth minute, Ashley Cole's vicious high volley forced Tim Howard to dive high and push round his post.
They were almost caught napping early on when Barry Bannan slid a ball inside right-back Wes Brown to find Stewart Downing and it needed centre-back Rio Ferdinand to come across and clear out the danger.
Andrew Trimble's break straight after the restart almost caught Munster napping before the danger was averted.
He did lose a surprise fall to local novice Kevin Hartley who caught him napping with a right side cross buttock.
King punted the penalty to touch, and Ibanez and Simon Shaw caught Leicester napping again for Wasps' second try from the line-out.
Murrell's pinpoint chip to the right corner caught Briscoe napping, allowing Fox to nip in and poach a 14th try of the season.
The move caught Ireland napping and the scrum-half streaked away down the left touchline to score in the corner, Hook converting for a 16-13 lead.
James Arlidge caught Leinster napping to run in a penalty, Wayne Evans swept in for a fine try and Richard Fussell secured the bonus point on 35 minutes.
Brown then drilled a powerful strike into the side-netting after skipping by a couple of challenges when a quick free-kick had caught the Macedonians napping.
Brown did add a consolation try after Quins caught the Blues napping with a quick penalty tap, although replacement kicker Adrian Jarvis's conversion went wide.
The home side had secured their own passage to the last four only 72 hours earlier, courtesy of a bruising 3-1 victory over Serbia and England caught the hosts napping after just a minute.
Despite playing on home ground, Ferguson's men conceded a goal in the sixth minute as Liverpool's fleet footed boy wonder Michael Owen caught United's defence napping.
Jeremy Lin caught the T-shirt prophets napping, though they've made up for it since.
The All Blacks took advantage of Australia's profligacy, crossing after 13 minutes from a quick tap that caught the home side's defence napping.
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