<A HREF="http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1275534,00.html?track=sy185&asrc=RSS_RSS-16_185">According to a report</A> released by the nonprofit high-tech industry trade association AeA, 118,500 jobs were added to the U.S. high-tech industry between January and June of 2007, bringing the total to 5.94 million jobs.

Based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report splits the high-tech industry into four categories: high-tech manufacturing, communications services, software services, and engineering and tech services. Manufacturing showed the most modest gains, adding 1,800 jobs. Communications services were next, adding 12,900, followed by software services and engineering and tech services, which added 51,100 and 52,600 jobs, respectively.