The department's antitrust unit is actively investigating "the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the credit derivatives clearing, trading and information services industries," according to a department spokeswoman.
The Justice Department has also been investigating this market and told The Times in December that its inquiry was focused on "the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the credit derivatives clearing, trading and information services industries".
On the commercial side, the information service industry has become one of the newer industries worldwide.
A modified version of the SERVQUAL instrument was evaluated to determine how effectively it measures service quality within the information service industry.
And while HP's bid has sparked talk of consolidation in the information technology services industry, if the name of the game is vertical integration getting a grip on the outlets selling your company's products–it's hard to see how any of the clutch of longtime EDS partners who compete with HP could respond.
Business travelers to Omaha, considered by many to be the hub of the Midwest's burgeoning information-technology services industry, are in for a messy ride this winter.
One of the most important is the rise of what India calls its ITES (or information technology enabled services) industry.
According to Auditor-Trak, a service of Strafford Publications, an Atlanta-based publisher of legal and business information services and accounting industry data, 348 accounting firms resigned from clients in 2002 through Monday, with firms indicating in 59 cases that the reasons were concerns about independence or a company's practices or concerns by a company about the auditor's standards.
It also entered the information services and entertainment industries with a wide range of products and services, most notably the Microsoft Network and MSNBC (a joint venture with the National Broadcasting Company, a major American television network).
The information technology service industry developed in India in large part because of the availability of inexpensive skilled labor, an advantage that is eroding as wages and other costs rise in the country.
