Nick Jones

Now that Christmas is over the pre-3GSM PR war has started in earnest. Various pictures and videos have been surfacing on the internet showing what purports to be a chunky wristwatch shaped 3G handset from LG. This is interesting; but it hides an even more interesting question: why is it that none of these cool [...]

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I am a cloud sceptic. I will likely be ostracized by some nephophilic colleagues for saying this, but I don’t believe that I’m ever going to store all my data in the cloud and access it wherever I go. There are many reasons for this, but let’s focus on one – data transport.
Google can build [...]

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I’m working on presentations for our Chicago mobile and wireless conference in February. Chicago, in February is likely to be a bit chilly, but don’t worry because if you prefer warm rain to cold wind you can always come to our London conference in April.
As part of this work I’ve been looking at some of [...]

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One industry in the firing line at the moment is lighting. Incandescent light bulbs arrived around 1880 and are long overdue for retirement; new technologies such as energy efficient LED lighting seem likely to replace many of them in the next couple of decades.
LED lighting will succeed because it has both functional and social adoption [...]

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Reuters today reported that a Nokia showroom in India was attacked by Hindu nationalists unhappy with the labelling of Kashmir in the handset mapping system. This is an unfortunate incident which illustrates a wider business challenge.
Electronic devices such as handsets, and the applications which run on them are now highly complex, information-rich, and untestable. And [...]

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I’m in the majority. 300 million PCs sold a year and well over a billion handsets. So why am I treated like a second class citizen by the unthinking PC imperialists who don’t stop to consider that people might not be using a PC and high speed broadband?
A while back my colleague Lydia Leong pointed [...]

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My wife is a technophobic historian who prefers her technology to be over 50 years old and ideally a couple of hundred. I suspect she’d prefer a quill pen to Word for Windows, and she may have a valid point on grounds of usability, reliability and TCO. She’s not alone, I was told by friends [...]

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I was just on LinkedIn responding to a couple of invitations and started feeling inferior. It wasn’t because I want to be hyper-connected; I’m a sloppy and sporadic LinkedIn user so I don’t expect lots of invitations. No, it was because I looked at some of the photos posted by my contacts and colleagues and [...]

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Architecture is wonderful, everyone should have one. I spend a lot of time helping clients define mobile strategies and mobile architectures.
However I do worry that people sometimes have unrealistic expectations of architecture. So let’s get one thing straight. Architecture is a wager, a bet. It’s no different to a weekend in Vegas (except casino staff [...]

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I was shopping at the weekend and wanted a new set of lights for my Christmas tree. But I was amazed to find that several stores had sold out, or had very little choice remaining; people here in the UK aren’t buying expensive new plasma TVs this Christmas, but  for some reason they are buying [...]

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