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BETHESDA, MD – A Consumer Product Safety Commission rule exempting several electronics devices from lead-content limits for children’s products goes into effect next week.

CHONGQING, CHINA -- Quanta Computer has signed an agreement with the municipal government here to set up a new plant, the company said today.

NORMAN, OK -- Hitachi Computer Products America is exiting the electronics manufacturing services business, CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY has learned.

NASHUA, NH -- Microscan yesterday dedicated its Northeast Technology Center, an engineering and technical research and development satellite site.

SAN FRANCISCO -- IT spending recovery is expected to continue in 2010 as signs show improving corporate capital spending, a leading analyst said today.

SMYRNA, GA – UP Media Group today announced the Surface Mount Technology Association has been named an exclusive sponsor of Virtual PCB, the industry's only virtual trade show and conference for the PCB design, fabrication and assembly markets.

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA – Heraeus Materials Technology has acquired Lord Corp.’s thick film cermet product line.

MINNEAPOLIS – SMTA requests abstracts for the 2010 International Conference on Soldering and Reliability being held this May in Toronto.

ESPOO, FINLAND – Finnish EMS giant Elcoteq plans to open a new facility in Tallinn, Estonia, say published reports.

BOONTON, NJ – Overall telecommunications services revenues are expected to grow at a compounded rate of nearly 13.8% during the next few years, reaching $3.7 trillion by 2015, says The Insight Research Corp.

The worldwide telecommunications industry is expected to continue expanding over the next five years, as growth of wireless services in emerging markets offsets the spending slowdown in the advanced economies, says the firm.

Wireless is expected to make the strongest showing, while wireline will follow a distant second.

Nearly all growth in both sectors is expected to occur in broadband services, with wireless broadband service revenues expected to grow at a compounded rate of more than 62% over the forecast period; wireline broadband services is expected to grow at a 6% rate.