Nick Jones

I’m off to South Africa this afternoon to visit Joburg & Cape Town meeting clients and speaking at Gartner’s Africa Symposium next week. I’ll be pretty busy, but will try to post a few blogs about the state of mobility there because it’s a fascinating market. For example a combination of weak internet infrastructure, excellent [...]

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The world is abuzz with rumours of a new Apple tablet. Despite (or probably because of) the fact no-one has seen it we have every shade of opinion out there from those claiming it will change the world to people who have already labelled it the iFlop. I have no inside information on what Apple [...]

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RIM wanted to make a bid on Nortel’s CDMA and LTE wireless networks division but were prevented from doing so for various procedural reasons. A shame, because I’d have imagined the Canadian government would have been delighted to keep jobs and technology in Canada. However, if we ignore the politics for a moment, this announcement [...]

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My wristwatch just expired, so I now have two decisions. Firstly, should I buy a new watch, and secondly, if I do opt to buy one, should I treat it as a tactical or strategic purchase?
I’m old enough to be from a watch-wearing generation, but many young people these days use a mobile instead. Partly [...]

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RIM gets a trojan. RIM sent around a customer notification on Friday admitting that Etisalat, one of their operators in the UAE had distributed an application that claimed to be a performance-enhancing software patch but was in fact a snooping trojan. In one sense there’s not a lot RIM can do about this as the [...]

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Do you want the good news or the bad news? We just had two sets of handset manufacturer financials today, many observers reported them both as terrible, but in reality they couldn’t be more different.
Nokia’s devices and services business is doing OK. Not great, but OK. Even in the current miserable economic climate they’re holding [...]

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I’m sure everyone has noticed by now that Apple announced that their app store now contains 65,000 applications and has achieved 1.5 billion downloads in the last year. Numbers with lots of zeroes are always impressive, but what’s not just impressive but rather scary is to ask what this implies for the future. A user [...]

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The latest organisation to be infected by the app store pandemic is LG who are reported to be opening their own store this week. I’m rather sceptical about app stores from handset vendors like LG and Samsung or even some of the network operator app stores, because I think they’re missing the point. App stores [...]

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We’re all fashion victims. Mobiles are basically fashion accessories with electronics inside. Technology itself has fashions, at the moment the pendulum has swung towards thin architectures and cloud services for example. But at some point thick clients will return to stride the techno-catwalk again, and we’ll all rediscover how nice it is to have a [...]

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We Brits may not play a large role on the world stage these days but we can still do some things well. One of them is high-profile scandals. A few weeks ago we discovered that half of our MPs were claiming all sorts of inappropriate expenses – one claimed £1600 on a floating duck house [...]

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