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"Big Problems, Big Solutions" is the first quarterly live conference call series with Mark Anderson we have ever offered. We are making it available to members at a slight discount. Please go to www.stratnews.com/snsconferencecalls to see subjects, get dates, and learn more.

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Registration is now open for the 7th annual SNS Predictions Dinner, December 8, 2011, at the historic Waldorf=Astoria Hotel: www.stratnews.com/newyork

and:

The SNS Future in Review conference, now in its 10th year:

 www.futureinreview.com

See "Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links" for program and registration details.

» Five Things About Q4

Every year, around this time, I publish an estimate of what Q4, the "Christmas Quarter," will look like, particularly from the perspective of technology markets. For almost all vendors, it represents the busiest quarter of the year, often by large percentages, and so it plays a unique role in technology firm planning, and even in questions as esoteric as that of platform war winners.

This Q4 is considerably more complex than in all of the past years we've been writing (since 1995), and that may be one more good reason for SNS members to be interested.