HP and RIM are now working together to pump out two products: CloudPrint and Operations Manager. The first lets you shoot your print jobs, be they documents or pictures, from your BlackBerry and have them shoot out of the nearest printer. The second is an addition in BES 5.0 which helps admins troubleshoot particular problems enterprise BlackBerry-users are having. HP had launched an iPhone app not too long ago which allowed you to print photos right from the device, so it’s easy to imagine something similar for BlackBerry that might focus a little closer on documents, but the BES-side product is a little hazier. I’ll be sure to get a closer look this afternoon at the press sessions. In the meantime, you can get more info from RIM here.
[via RIM]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement.
With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.