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KAOHSIUNG, CHINA -- Hon Hai Group plans to hire some 500 software engineers by May for jobs at its new site in the Kaohsiung Software Technology Park.

Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou has reportedly pledged a minimum NT$1 billion in investments to create 3,000 jobs for software engineers in five years.

Permission was recently been granted to 79 companies to locate in the park.

SALEM, NH -- A Synchronized Manufacturing Technologies technician was airlifted to an intensive care unit after a wave soldering machine caught fire and burned him from the chest up on Monday.

NEENAH, WI -- The outlook for Plexus in fiscal 2009 is stabilizing, the EMS company told analysts Wednesday. The company reiterated its long-term target of 15 to 18% growth, saying it could reach $3.4 billion in sales by fiscal 2013.

WASHINGTON – The Secretary of the Navy has been confirmed as the Department of Defense Executive Agent for printed circuit board technology, according to a memorandum issued this week by the Deputy Secretary of Defense.

CHICAGO -- A federal judge has tossed out the Sherman Act claims in a dispute between Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) and Molex Inc. over a patent licensing contract between the two companies for a connector used with audiovisual equipment, but has let the other claims stand.

Judge Harry D. Leinenweber of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled this week that Hon Hai had not alleged sufficient facts to state a plausible claim.