Posts Tagged ‘hp’

Printing comes to the iPhone

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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Those geniuses at Hewlett Packard unveiled today, in the run up to Christmas, a printing application for the iPhone.

Available from the Apple App store, this widget, and let’s call it by the name everyone else standardises on apart from Apple, is around for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Apparently it’s the first of its kind to allow printing of photos from their devices wirelessly, in a 4 x 5-inch format to the majority of HP’s inkjet printers.

It should also work seamlessly with Apples Bonjour technology, their zero configuration setup for local printers and their services.

We’ve been told it will be aired and shown off to its full extent and glory at CES in January, and also Macworld Conference and Expo too. Hurrah!

HP iPrint Photo is available gratis from AAS, Apple App Store now.

We must admit, it’s a nice touch. Although we really doubt it will sell more HP printers, but it could make the iPhone more useful and work well with existing technology in the home or in the office.

Either way, it’s a step in the right direction for them both.

Who knows, perhaps HP could make printers a bit more sexy instead of a grey, dull and boring piece of kit and design the ‘ iPrinter ‘ ?

You saw it here first folks, if it all comes true.

Motorola CEO hunt down to two?

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Motorola’s struggling handset business could soon have a new head. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal quoting people familiar with the matter, negotiations are underway with two candidates and are currently at a sensitive stage.

Of the two potential CEOs, the WSJ names one as a ‘telecoms exec’ but gives no more details, the other, according to the paper, is HP exec Todd Bradley. Bradley currently heads up HP’s personal systems group, which looks after “personal computers, mobile devices, technical workstations, digital televisions, personal storage solutions and Internet services”.

Bradley’s also got some fascinating mobile history: he used to be the CEO of palmOne, taking over after palmSource was spun off. Apparently, Bradley could be just the man for the job but he told the WSJ this week: “I’m happy where I am, and I’m not planning to make any changes.” Fingers crossed for Motorola he’s just being coy.


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