Nick Jones

A few impressions from Gartner’s Sydney Symposium which finished on Thursday. Firstly, APAC hasn’t suffered anything like the recession that Europe and the US have undergone, so our attendees here were on the whole cautiously optimistic. Technically speaking Australia didn’t actually have a recession, there was only one quarter of negative growth, and the central [...]

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European Symposium finished yesterday and I have a few days free before heading out to Sydney for APAC Symposium. So this seems a good moment to reflect on  some of the mobile themes from Cannes.
I noticed a real difference in sentiment between Cannes and Orlando. In the USA there was a lot of buzz and [...]

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I’m back in Cannes for Euro Symposium, and in a few ways it’s just like last year. It’s pouring with rain again, and the hotel Martinez still can’t make a decent cup of tea for my wife. However, some things are very different. This year Symposium is operating a  much higher level with far more [...]

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One of the interesting things I can do as a Gartner analyst is to mine some of the data that we collect from our web site. I just trawled through the anonymised search strings for the July to September quarter and in the mobile / communications domain the topic people were searching for information on [...]

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I’m rushing around to get all my outstanding jobs finished before I go on vacation next week. I’ve travelled around Europe a lot in the last few decades and while doing so I’ve driven alongside the Rhine or crossed the Rhine more times than I can remember. But I have never actually been on the [...]

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Today I’m working on some presentation material for our September portals and collaboration summit in London where I’ll be talking about the future of mobile working. One of the things I find disappointing about mobile collaboration and work is how primitive it still is, the killer mobile application is still the phone call. Most of the things [...]

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I’ll be in South Africa at the end of July and the start of August visiting clients and speaking at Gartner’s Africa symposium, and I’m looking forward to the trip on both a personal and professional level. South Africa is a great country, my wife and I have been on a couple of safaris there [...]

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One hot topic at our Chicago conference this week was mobile platforms. Sifting through all the platform discussions there seemed to be several underlying themes:
B2C applications. Enterprises developing mobile apps for consumers are in a no-win situation because they have to trade off quality / usability for audience size. E.g. SMS works on everything but [...]

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I’m finishing an exhausting three days here in cold and windy Chicago where Gartner’s mobile and wireless conference has just ended. It’s hard for many of our clients to get authorisation for travel and conference expenses in the current economy, so although the attendee numbers were down on last year there was one huge benefit. [...]

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I’m working on some new presentations for our February conferences, one of which is about emerging mobile trends and technologies. One of the trends I’m seeing is towards what we might call subtle interfaces. Now I’m not renowned as a subtle person, just ask my family. But even as a callous British guy I find [...]

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