Analysis Mark Hurd must know what happens to HP bosses who strike a legacy-defining deal.

Perot Systems Corporation is buying an Irish application developer, Original Solutions Limited.

Barclays Capital is forcing its IT contractors to choose between a 10 per cent pay cut or a quick exit from the company.

IT services firm Capgemini today blamed the weak US dollar and British pound for a 1.4 per cent drop in its first quarter revenues.

The company, which pulls in nearly half (41 per cent) of its group revenues from North America and Blighty, saw sales for the quarter sink to €2.185bn compared to €2.214bn a year ago.

A Pittsburgh computer consultancy is paying $45,000 in civil penalties over claims it discriminated against legal US residents by advertising only for developers on H-1B visas.

IT outsourcing giant EDS will axe up to 90 UK-based jobs by the end of this month as part of its "ongoing restructuring and re-skilling programme".

Workers at the firm were told yesterday that EDS has pinpointed some 700 jobs, where staff can apply for voluntary redundancy. This includes 333 at its business management unit.

Logica will cut 1,300 jobs as part of a restructuring announced by chief executive Andy Green this morning.

Satyam hopes to kick its way into Europeans' affections through a services deal it struck with Fifa last year.

The India-based services provider signed up as Official IT Services Provider to the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups last November, ensuring its name will be plastered all over the tournaments alongside mega brands such as McDonalds and Coca Cola.

The US slowdown rolled into India this week with outsourcer Satyam forecasting that revenue growth in 2009 will be well down on the 40 per cent plus rates it has become accustomed to.

RM Plc has bagged a contract to supply computing and IT services to the London Borough of Newham.

The deal, estimated to be worth about £53m over an 11 year period, is RM’s third government contract win this year for the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

A potential Atos Origin candidate for the French IT services firm's supervisory board has labelled management pay-off talks as "scandalous".

Colette Neuville, who is chairman of shareholder rights' group Adam, was one of three candidates proposed by some angry members of private equity funds Centaurus Capital L.P. and Pardus Capital Management L.P, to take a seat on the board.

Rebel shareholders in Atos Origin have put forward three new members – including the company's founder – to the French services firm's board.

Rebel shareholders from private equity funds Centaurus Capital L.P. and Pardus Capital Management L.P, vowed last week to fight the company’s refusal to grant them representation on the supervisory board by proposing its own line-up of potential members.

IBM has been temporarily barred from bidding for new contracts with US Federal government agencies. The company blames the suspension on a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency - of which it had no knowledge, until it read about the ban on a government website.

Royal Dutch Shell today inked three outsourcing deals – worth $4.2bn over five years – to spin out IT and telecoms operations.

In January, a leaked memo to staff revealed the oil company was in outsourcing talks with EDS, AT&T and T-Systems.

A Best Buy store in New Jersey foiled one man's treasonous plot to subvert a troubled US economy by discouraging the purchase of an overpriced headset.

Atos Origin’s main shareholders have reacted angrily to the firm’s decision to block them from joining its supervisory board.

UK-based Centaurus Capital IP and US-based Pardus Capital Management IP, which together hold 21.67 per cent of the French IT services company, have written a letter criticising Atos bosses following the publication of board draft resolutions (pdf) for its AGM.

EDS has bought Reading-based firm Nexagent. Nexagent makes software for companies to design, manage, and provision virtual private networks, especially those for large companies which might include several regions.

Royal Dutch Shell left both staff and potential suppliers on tenterhooks yesterday when it dished out details of its outsourcing programme to UK-based IT workers.

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