In the Friday incident, an Ampro Systems employee was in the company parking lot with nine boxes of computer memory cards he was about to unload. Two men accosted him, and stashed the boxes in a getaway car driven by a third man.

The car was identified as a light-blue or gray Chrysler Town and Country minivan with no license plates.

Two days earlier, at an unidentified high-tech business in Milpitas, two men were seen near the freight dock of the company. The men were apparently scared off by employees, police said. That indicident took place about 2:35 p.m. The car was described as a light-blue or gray van, which had the skull and crossbones on the back license plate area.

TAIPEI -- Foxconn Electronics will produce more than one million notebook computers for Sony this year,  the majority share on the Japan consumer electronics outsourced PCs.

Asian media source DigiTimes reported sources at Taiwan notebook makers as saying that the electronics manufacturing services provider will produce more than half of Sony's outsourced orders in 2006.

LONDON – The UK Department of Trade and Industry yesterday issued a timetable for implementing the WEEE Directive and “takeback” of electronics products by producers and distributors.

In a so-called Consultation Document, the DTI proposed a national distributor takeback program under which network of designated collection facilities would be established.