The company had to cut its earnings after a court awarded extra payments in a lawsuit against EDS
Hewlett-Packard has been forced to reduce the amount of profit it reported last quarter to cover additional costs awarded against its EDS division in a lawsuit brought by British Sky Broadcasting in the U.K.
Union claims 2,500 threatened with compulsory redundancy
One thousand members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will go on a 48-hour strike at HP on Monday after the company refused to extend its job security guarantee beyond October.
CSC, Unisys, Lockheed Martin short listed with EDS and Kaz dropped
EDS will lose its $60 million Australian Taxation Office (ATO) End User Computing (EUC) services contract from June 2012 after the agency announced a short list of new providers.
Vendor giant to rebrand its IT services business holistically
HP Wednesday announced it would leave the EDS brand behind and rename its IT services provider business HP Enterprise Services.
Sales of printers, PCs and servers all declined sharply, but HP's services business was a bright spot
Hewlett-Packard reported a 2 percent drop in revenue for the July quarter, which was better than expected, and said its business is stabilizing.
It's also cutting data center power use by painting server racks white
Just off the North Sea coast in the United Kingdom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s EDS unit has built a data center that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and -- by doing so -- cut the center's cooling power needs in half.
It's also cutting data center power use by painting server racks white
Just off the North Sea coast in the United Kingdom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s
EDS unit has built a data center that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and -- by doing so -- cut the center's cooling power needs in half.
Help desk for 5000 staff included
The HP-owned EDS has chalked up a five-year, $96 million outsourcing contract to manage the IT infrastructure of the federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Microsoft officially launched its hosted services in 18 countries and lined up new partners to help sell them
On Monday, Microsoft began offering its hosted services to companies in 18 countries outside of the U.S. and said that EDS would help sell the services.
HP reported a revenue gain of 1 percent for the quarter ending in January compared to the same period last year.
Despite declines nearly across the board, Hewlett-Packard just barely managed an increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2009, which ended Jan. 31, the company announced Wednesday.
A report by UK Parliament complains a consortium lead by EDS underestimated the complexity of the software they had to deliver for the multi-billion dollar defence project
A powerful group of MPs has accused the Ministry of Defence of failing to properly plan a £7.1 billion IT project, leading to cost overruns and severe delays.
HP on Friday said it was integrating EDS into its Technology Solutions Group and that EDS unit chief Ron Rittenmeyer would retire.
Hewlett-Packard on Friday said it was further integrating EDS into its operations to boost its services and product offerings.
EDS will cut 75 local staff from its headcount of 6000.
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) will slash 75 staff from its local workforce as part of a global headcount reduction lead by parent company Hewlett-Packard (HP) which plans to axe 24,600 jobs over three years.
HP plans to shed 3,378 EDS jobs over two years.
HP plans to slash 3,378 jobs over two years following its acquisition of EDS, in a move that has angered the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS).
HP has to be able to prove it can deliver across multiple lines of services and be able to do that efficiently, analyst says.
HP's announcement this week that it would cut thousands of jobs as it digests EDS' IT services business didn't come as a total surprise to industry watchers, but the company's integration plan did raise eyebrows.
