HP: C'mon Spin off the Print Piece..

Or at least give them an independent P&L and stop taking money earned their to fund the fight against IBM in computer facilites and against everyone in lap tops and netbooks.

Or at least give your Indigo owners a leg up in integrating Print with mobile phones through dynamic QR codes.

Alcatel, H-P Agree to Ally -
WSJ.com:
"Alcatel-Lucent and Hewlett-Packard Co. signed a 10-year partnership to develop and market communications and computing products, as both firms look for new areas of growth.

Alcatel-Lucent will also outsource the management of its computing systems to H-P, transferring about 1,000 workers to H-P as a result.

The Paris-based company declined to say how much it would save with this move, but Chief ExecutiveBen Verwaayen has made cutting costs a priority since taking over the unprofitable telecom-gear maker in September."