31.   Not surprisingly, computer hardware companies also sense a big opportunity here.

32.   Palm joins other hardware companies such as Apple that have tried to spread the adoption of their operating systems with mixed success.

33.   Other local businesses report increased business -- including an aircraft hardware company that is sending extra inventory to Canada because the buyers are worried about shortages.

34.   Rebel.com, a Canadian hardware company that Corel partly owns, figures that computers operated by a free system like Linux are likely to sell well in poorer countries.

35.   Reports that sales of PCs slowed at the beginning of this year added to the downward pressure on stocks of personal computer and related hardware companies.

36.   Still, Apple depends on hardware companies to invest the money on programming that will let their products work with Macintosh machines.

37.   The growth will be in the form of higher sales at consumer electronics companies, software makers and computer hardware companies.

38.   The phenomenon has emerged over the last few years, employers say, as Internet start-up companies have proliferated and established software and hardware companies have grown.

39.   The software will be delivered to hardware companies -- including Casio Computer Co., Philips Electronics and Clarion Co. -- in the first quarter, he said.

40.   This one is by a small computer hardware company that says Microsoft stole the design for its mouse.