Nick Jones

It’s the responsibility of analysts not only to analyse, but to explain the notations we use and how our clients can use them to make decisions. Some time back I attempted to explain hype cycles in a verse which I resurrected it when one of my colleagues recently asked for a simple description of how [...]

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I was briefly pleased to see the EU politicians have capped data roaming fees starting at 1 euro a megabyte in 2009 dropping to 0.5 euros per megabyte in 2011. But then I realised that as usual the politicians are lagging technology trends. We get the first LTE rollouts in Europe in 2010 which might [...]

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I mentioned in a previous blog that cats provide useful pointers to anyone in the prediction business. They can also help corporate strategists too. Cats have been successfully exploiting human beings for at least 4000 years, maybe more. They obviously have a very successful business strategy, show me a corporation that’s been living off the [...]

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It’s Ada Lovelace day and so time to blog about some successful past and present women in technology. Rather than focus on just one individual I thought I’d mention a few of my personal favourites.
Wendy Hall professor of Computer Science at Southampton university who was elected last year as President of the ACM. Not only [...]

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People seem to be doing strange things with video this week. Yesterday Cisco announced they were buying Pure Digital, the makers of Flip - fashionable consumer video cameras. This leaves me totally puzzled. $590 million is loose change for Cisco. But why spend even loose change on a brand no-one has heard of outside the US and [...]

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I just had an interesting IT support experience. I’d been working from home for several days so had been firmly tied to laptops and desktops and been playing with an email-free handset. So when I was out and about visiting clients yesterday I reverted to my trusty E71 and was very annoyed to find that mobile email didn’t [...]

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You can be sure that something is valuable when people pay a lot for it. A few days ago Inmarsat who provide satellite voice and data reported their 2008 numbers and one fact struck me as interesting. They reported revenue growth driven by significantly increased data usage: in the last year land based data was [...]

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UWB has been dropped from Bluetooth 3.0, so this means that the only high speed Bluetooth bearer in the next release will be Wifi. Now Wifi is good, but I suspect most mobile devices in the next year or two are going to use 802.11 abg with a transfer rate of a few 10s of [...]

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I’ve seen some comments in the press that recessions breed nostalgia as people look back to the good times. Not me. One of the joys of information technology is that however painful it gets, you can always look forward to a future where the company or product that caused you aggravation has died a deserving [...]

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Optimists in a recession are like buses, you get none for ages and then a bunch come along at the same time. Here are some of the courageous (or maybe just misguided) statements I saw in the last couple of days:
Fierce Wireless reports an analyst who thinks Motorola has finally hit the bottom and might [...]

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