IT services

After years of complaints, BAE is settling charges of bribery and improper transfer of radar technology overseas.

The recession has helped convince companies to adapt IT processes to help cut costs and improve service delivery to internal users.

Staples Inc. is expanding its IT services capabilities in a move that will take it right inside the data center.

Xerox's bid for IT and business process service provider Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) comes on the heels of Dell's announcement that it will purchase Perot Systems, and outsourcing industry analysts predict even more consolidation in the IT services market.

The Dell-Perot deal accelerates Dell's push into the IT services market.

Both business unit managers and technology consumers are big fans of decentralizing IT. They want it carved up by geography, by lines of business, or some other scheme, with control passed to the local senior business manager. This mania for local control isn't just an affirmation of Tip O'Neill's legendary mantra: 'All politics is local.' It seems to be simple human nature.

Government; investigators now taking the view that funds may have been siphoned out of Satyam

IT outsourcing providers were largely unscathed by the economic downturn throughout much of 2008. But by the end of the year CIOs were too distracted by the economic destruction surround them to do any outsourcing deals. That's all poised to change in 2009. The only problem is, that may be bad news for both IT services providers and their IT leader customers.