Nick Jones

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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One of my colleagues just commented that people are frequently telling him to act his age. Another Californian colleague once remarked that one of the great things about growing up was that you could roller blade around your kitchen without anyone complaining. This started me thinking about age; we do a lot of surveys looking [...]

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I’m in Orlando for Gartner’s US Symposium and ITxpo where I’ll be talking about mobile / wireless trends and mobile collaboration / social networking. Symposium is held at the Disney resort which means I’m staying in a Disney hotel where there’s no escape from the Disney Magic. Hash browns plus Goofy at 8AM on a [...]

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I’m sitting in an airport lounge on my way to the West Coast where I’ll be visiting clients before heading over to Orlando at the weekend for our annual US Symposium. This means that for once I’m reading a newspaper in the morning.
I’ve just read an article about a UK art show where volunteers were [...]

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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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One of the advantages of living in the South of England is that it’s easy to get to the Channel Tunnel. This means the collection of restaurants I can drive to within 2 or 3 hours isn’t limited to ones in the UK. I’m theoretically on vacation this week so yesterday we went to France [...]

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This is going to be a fortnight in which we write a lot about Nokia both in blogs and formal research. This week Nokia will announce several things in the run up to Nokia world. And I’m sure they will save a few surprises for Nokia World next week as well. Analysts have already had [...]

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It’s Monday so it must be Warsaw. I’m off on a business trip to Poland and Germany this week, so blogging may be a bit intermittent. I will be giving a couple of presentations on mobile and wireless trends tomorrow in Warsaw, so if you’re a Gartner client in Poland and haven’t signed up yet, [...]

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Firstly, sorry for not blogging last week, but I was very busy, rushing around on planes and visiting clients. As always I’m having a great time both professionally and socially in South Africa. The only downside is that I picked up a cold in Joburg so am a bit of a sniveling wretch, but my [...]

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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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