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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In retail matters I am a typical disorganised male. I have a low tolerance for shopping, I get despondent if I can’t find what I want in the store in five minutes, and I usually start my Christmas shopping two days before Christmas. So I really resent the fact that although we’re not yet half [...]

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An interesting working draft just emerged from W3C for something called EmotionML- Emotion Markup Language. The goal is to provide a framework for annotating information with human emotions. There is a clear need for some form of EmotionML, especially in the area of context where future mobile devices will provide lots of clues to our [...]

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It’s the end of the 2nd day here at Symposium and I’ve delivered three presentations and probably chatted with 50 clients about mobile and wireless issues; and I’ve noticed a real change from last year. I won’t call it optimism yet, because everyone is still suffering from budget cuts and uncertainty. But last year the [...]

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I managed to survive a whole week of vacation without a laptop or internet connection, probably for the first time in a decade. It wasn’t too bad, due mainly to regular glasses of German wine and beer which dulled the withdrawal symptoms a lot.  But I’m back online now and have toggled from withdrawal to [...]

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I’ve been chatting to a client about m-government today and while doing so I started to wonder whether m-government is a meaningful concept, or even whether it actually exists. Sure, there are lots of mobile applications developed by government, but in 90% of cases the technologies and drivers for G2C or G2E mobile apps seem [...]

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I was chatting today with some Intermec guys who were showing me their latest ruggedized handhelds. These are wonderful mobile devices, you can throw them across the room, pour coffee on them, and even drive a car over them and they can still make a phone call and read a barcode. This is a market [...]

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I was sitting listening to a presentation at Nokia World yesterday thinking that one of the most interesting aspects of the mobile universe at the moment is that it’s in a land-grab phase. Land-grabs occur when something new is emerging, which involves some degree of lock-in and critical mass. Land-grabs in a market are interesting [...]

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Some impressions from Nokia World today. Firstly what’s looking good? Location technology and the mashable map player are top of my list of announcements that will have a major long term impact. Location is a powerful foundation on which a lot of clever applications will be built. Nokia’s first demonstration of this is “lifecasting”  which [...]

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Microsoft just made a really interesting announcement about a new mobile technology / service called OneApp. OneApp comes from Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential (UP) group which looks at the needs of the billions of people who aren’t at the top of the social pyramid earning lots of money in mature markets.
OneApp is both a platform and a [...]

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