The Catalyst Code

Jeff Bezos is supposed to unveil the Kindle today–a WiFi-connected e-book that will supposedly download your daily WSJ and NYTimes, make blogs and other content available for a free, make it easy to download books, including the NYTimes bestseller list, onto the device, along with other cool things. Others are working on similar devices. 
As Karen Webster […]

“It’s the age of the media gadget” according to Michael Wolff’s provocative article in the December issue of Vanity Fair. His thesis is that specialized gadgets–from the iPhone to Google’s maps–are challenging the networks and the purveyors of “convergence” such as the XBox. Moreover, the popularity of gadgets that facilitate piracy and the […]

Google’s ambitious mobile strategy is further evidence of the power of the advertising-revenue driven business model. The search-engine giant can entice handset makers with free software and operators with a cut of the advertising revenue stream. That cuts through a lot of the fights in the mobile business about who gets what share of […]

John Gapper has an interesting oped in the Thursday’s Financial Times, “Mighty Google rings the changes,” that argues the two “catalysts for change” in mobile are Apple’s iPhone and the “impatience of regulators with the network operators.” What do you think?