US computer giant Hewlett-Packard and Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) announced an alliance on May 4 to provide applications and services for the popular Blackberry smartphone. HP and RIM, in a joint statement, said the services being offered included giving the Blackberry the ability to wirelessly print emails, documents, photos and Web pages from anywhere.
HP CloudPrint for BlackBerry is "printer-agnostic and driverless and requires simple Internet access," they said.