Nick Jones

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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Perhaps the most important skill for a politician is to understand society and the forces that mould it, one of which is technology. But politician’s understanding of the intersection of technology and society remains tragically poor as is illustrated by a couple of UK examples.
Disconnecting file sharers. The UK government has acted against the recommendations [...]

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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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Mobile devices know where you are, and in the future will have extra clues to your behaviour such as what you buy using mobile payment. Location is a key piece of this context jigsaw but location privacy is the elephant in the corner of the room that folks are trying to ignore. Contextual mobile business [...]

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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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I’ve been writing a new presentation on mobile work for our PCC conference in September and thinking a lot about user-owned mobile technology. Some IT professionals feel that allowing users to bring unapproved personal technology into the organisation is a bit like permitting crazed killers to roam the corridors, and is only a small step away [...]

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The UK government just released the final version of its “Digital Britain” report which is a wide-ranging 238 page tome that talks about the future of broadband, wireless networks, digital radio, TV, the BBC, copyright, digital piracy, IT skills, cyber security and digital public services. The report is strong on broad ideas and rather weaker [...]

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I’ve just been writing a research note on some of the emerging technologies which will define the future of mobile devices; if you’re a Gartner client it’s entitled “The Plastic, Flexible Gigabit Phone” and it’s on the web site. As the title suggests, one of the technologies which I see having a huge influence in [...]

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I thought I’d air a discussion that I’ve been having with one of my colleagues to see if anyone has any opinions to share. The subject about which we disagree is personal displays. By this I mean head up displays that look a bit like spectacles coming from companies such as MyVu, I-O Display Systems and [...]

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Regular readers will by now be used to my habit of getting tips on business strategy and prediction from the three cats who live in the Jones household. I like cats, but I don’t have many illusions about them. Cats flip from being predatory and selfish to cute and friendly, depending on who (or what) [...]

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