He has washed and kissed the feet of women and Muslims, inscribed his autograph on plaster casts of injured pilgrims and has even telephoned his old Buenos Aires news vendor to cancel his newspaper order.
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%.
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.
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.
The good news for CIOs is that a growing amount of vendor investment has been drawn to this market, which Gartner has named Data Center Infrastructure Management. nlyte software, for example, provides a modeling, monitoring, and management suite for understanding power and cooling in a data center and optimizing placement and configuration of racks and servers.
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.
Another company that could be dinged by a U.S. slump, paradoxically, is the German software vendor SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ).
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.
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.
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.
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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