Tag: 2016

Shall we meet at SXSW?

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Once more I’ll be jetting off to Austin in March for another week or so at South by Southwest and I’ll be attending the three main strands (Interactive, Film, and Web). As always I’m going out with a few aims. The first is to meet old friends (and make new ones) so if you want to grab a coffee over some gingerbread pancakes, let me know. The second is to see what’s new in the tech, media, and music world. Be it start-ups, bands, films, ideas in the seminars, products on the show floor, SXSW is a guide to many new ideas. Finally it’s about inspiration and getting

Let’s dream about a Nokia/Jolla collaboration in 2016

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I’ve done some speculation over on Forbes: It’s a long road for Jolla, but if they can make a success of their first handset during the first half of 2014, and work on a second handset for late 2015, then the boutique smartphone manufacturer will become a very attractive property either for an IPO or a buy-out by a larger company who wants to get into the smartphone game. Or a company that wants to return to the smartphone game. At this point this is nothing more than speculation, but it’s speculation that many people are quietly making. Nokia’s Board