Zappos and others have set up camp nearby so they can hand off their goods to the shipping titan quickly and ensure they arrive at their destinations as soon as possible.

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That first-day total was double the number of iPhone 4S pre-orders the company took last year, and an initial Friday shipping date was quickly pushed back.

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With his wife, he went to Sri Lanka to see how he might help and considered--then quickly rejected--the conventional approach of shipping containers full of used bikes donated by Americans to the devastated areas.

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Montgomery quickly got results, including a full refund and shipping.

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Lastly, we announced NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight, that we started shipping in the first quarter of fiscal 2013, which has quickly become the highest rated eReader in the market.

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"A quickly moving vessel will pass through the area quickly, and exposure will be small, " the shipping council wrote in a document challenging the limits.

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These were 18 big names for software that was unproven, and which in demos at MWC still appeared unfinished and even slow (based on my own observations here at the show and those of another analyst.) Mozilla has said LG and ZTE will start shipping its Firefox phones this summer, so it will have to work quickly to fine tune those features.

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They are shipping early versions of their products on the belief that their products and the enabling technologies will get better quickly.

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