Carly spoke about an installed base of 130 million printers, and how HP was thinking about how to add a service component to make those printers, those appliances, more useful for businesses and families by connecting them to web in new ways. An example presented was one in which a printer becomes like a mailbox where, in the morning, only those newspaper articles of interest are automatically printed. Another technology described was JetSend that enables information exchange between digital imaging devices, avoiding the need for cables or printer drivers. HP is also expanding into e-publishing and the digitization of hard copy, where we move from print and distribute to distribute and print. These are examples Carly used to describe how the Internet will work for people.
Revenue comes from wrapping services around products.
Culture, more than technology is going to help the Net deliver what people want. Carly concluded her remarks with a brief description of how HP 's culture is being changed to meet these challenges. She described HP as having started in a garage 60 years ago by inventors with radical ideas. HP invented many firsts, from the hand held calculator to creating flexible working hours on the factory floor. HP is a company of inventors with great inventive capability and Carly talked about how HP will re-ignite this spirit and start talking about invention again.