James Faucette, a wireless analyst at Pacific Crest Securities said Motorola's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) acquisition of mobile e-mail software vendor Good Technology could make Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) a good fit for Motorola.
He borrowed his way through Yale business school, then worked at Boston Consulting Group before landing in the corporate planning department at Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ), the electronic-appliance vendor.
Last week, Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) Time Warner Cable announced a deal with video communications vendor Viseon (otc: VSNI - news - people ) to sell that company's standalone videophones to its broadband customers.
Fund manager Rajiv Kaul has focused on a handful of relatively new companies, including high-speed router maker Juniper Net (nasdaq: JUNI) at 8.98% of holdings, semiconductor manufacturer JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) at 6.09% and optical networking vendor Sycamore Networks (nasdaq: SCMR - news - people) at 3.14%.
So is the biggest search outfit, Overture (nasdaq: OVER - news - people ), a little-known billion-dollar vendor that provides unbranded search services for other Web sites and has sued Google, alleging patent infringement.
Last week, THQ Wireless --the mobile subsidiary of software vendor THQ (nasdaq: THQI - news - people ) announced a deal with Lucasfilm to create phone content based on the Star Wars films.
DirecTV (nyse: DTV - news - people ), the biggest satellite vendor, boasts more than 13.5 million customers, more than all the cable vendors except Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ), the largest U.S. cable company with 21 million subscribers.
Another company that could be dinged by a U.S. slump, paradoxically, is the German software vendor SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ).
But photovoltaics vendor Evergreen Solar (nasdaq: ESLR - news - people ) is up fivefold since 2003.
To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
One vendor, Planar Systems (nasdaq: PLNR - news - people ), released two new models this week, one measuring 19 inches, the other 20.1 inches.
In 2004, software vendor The SCO Group (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) sued Linux user AutoZone (nyse: AZO - news - people ) for what it claims are violations of its intellectual property--a case that hasn't yet been resolved.
While some market trackers show AMD losing ground in the high-performance workstation market (translation: PCs for engineers and other geeks), AMD is keeping the heat on in the laptop market, announcing a deal this month that will put AMD chips in 20% of PC vendor Toshiba 's (other-otc: TOSBF - news - people ) laptops.
The PC vendor offers computers based on both Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and AMD chips in these stores.
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