Last Friday, Wired.com released the Wired 40, a list of the top 40 most advanced companies in terms of techonology and innovation.  There aren’t too many surprises with a top 5 of Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), *Samsung, Amazon (AMZN) and Yahoo (YHOO), but it’s an interesting read nonetheless.  Two small, emerging companies that made the list are Infosys (INFY) at #9 and Salesforce.com (CRM) at #20.  see the article

* Samsung is not traded in US markets yet, so the only way to play this currently is by purchasing the Ishares South Korea ETF (EWY) (Samsung represents 23% of the fund).  The fund is currently carving out a base after running up nearly 50% from October ’04 to March of this year.