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• HP/EDS meeting with troubled UK workforce

  HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.

• HP job cuts dangerous, warns UK union

  The UK Public and Commercial Services Union this week said the jobs of former civil servants employed by EDS could be axed, following the takeover of the company by HP.

• UK slams multi-billion dollar EDS project

  The UK's National Audit Office has branded an EDS IT system, which will cost the equivalent of AU$2.7 billion, as one of the "worst public administration scandals in modern times".

• UK government staff hit by ID theft scam

  Criminals have stolen the identities of 1,500 staff in the UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and used them to make fraudulent tax claims on a government Web site.

• Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs

  Staff at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were unable to use their PCs last week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the PC in the sprawling department, which numbers some 100,000 employees.

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• Top 10 worst IT disasters of all time

  From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years

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