Its a interesting world indeed now that Service Live ( A division of Sears Holdings ) is now going to Partner with HP in providing support for HP TV’s and PC’s.
Service Live is a new competitor to Onforce.com, a clearing house so to speak ( they call it a market place, but we vastly disagree on that point ) of IT Professionals across the country.
Now All HP Installations and Repairs will be going through Service Live’s platform, which should be going 100% live around the middle of January.
The main part thats intriguing is how exactly Service Live got this very very large account from Onforce.com. Im sure that Onforce had at least tried to bid on this work, but maybe something else is going on in the background…
Maybe HP is alittle scared about sales with the closing of Compusa, and maybe they are partnering with Sears to make sure they have a good retailer to push their PC’s out of.
With Dell now entering the retail market with Wal-Mart, i know HP wants to retain their position in the PC sales world.
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