today launched its Smart Office initiative, a $750 million dollar program meant to empower small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) with technology from printing (HP’s specialty) on up. Part of that initiative is the Mobility Now program, which HP hopes it can use to bring wireless to small offices, particularly those lacking an IT staff of their own. Richard Stone, wireless & mobility solutions manager at HP, says Mobility Now consists of three solutions with the monikers of Mobilize Your Data, Mobilize Your Office, and Escape Your Office. “What we’re offering small and medium businesses is a complete end-to-end solution,” says Stone. “Many SMBs have what I call the Three C’s Problem: cost, complexity, and compromise. They think wireless is expensive, that it’s complex, and that it has been compromised in an attempt to make it simple enough for any users. We’re focused on saying it’s affordable, it’s not complex, and just as importantly, it’s the same solution a Fortune top ten company would use.”
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