15 Years Providing Weekly Foresight

 

The most accurate predictive letter in computing and telecommunications,
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In This Issue     Feature: The Internet Assistant Arrives   From the SNS Glossary, 1997: Personal Net Assistant From the SNS Archives [19972009]   Quote of the Week   Ethermail   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News   New Members' Welcome How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where's Mark?

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"Mark is the best prognosticator in the technology business." Peter Petre, Author and Co-Founder, Compass Conference; this week in L.A.

 

To hear Mark's most recent NPR interview, "A Merry Christmas for technology?" please go to:

www.kplu.org/post/merry-christmas-technology

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Happening this Friday: "Big Problems, Big Solutions" is the first quarterly live conference call series with Mark Anderson that we have offered. Call participants will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding their own concerns and companies. We are pricing this series and first call at a discount for members. Please go to www.stratnews.com/snsconferencecalls to see subjects, get dates, and sign on.

 

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Annual SNS Predictions Dinner for the coming year, at the Waldorf=Astoria, NY

 

Our participant list is now as interesting as our speaker list, including, but not limited to: Kevin Campbell, CEO - Tech Division and many others of the Accenture management team; Paul Ricci, CEO, Nuance Communications (SNS' new Global Platinum Partner), with his team; Bill Janeway, Sr. Advisor, Warburg Pincus, just in from London; and many more. Don't miss the networking event of the season register now for the 7th annual SNS Predictions Dinner, December 8, 2011, at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel: www.stratnews.com/newyork ;

 

 

and:

 

Sign up now, until month's end, for $1400 below retail for the Future in Review conference, now in its 10th year:

 

 

 www.futureinreview.com

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

» The Internet Assistant Arrives

 

This week, the new iPhone began shipping in earnest, with stores first on the East Coast, then on the West Coast, getting their allotments, quickly followed by Europe. Carriers and stores sold out quickly, which is what you'd expect of a device likely to become the best-selling product of all time.