The Catalyst Code

Our iPhone SDK post is included in this week’s Carnival of Mobilists, a round-up of some of the best entries on the mobile industry, hosted by Andrew Grill’s blog.

1. Deal Yenta: Should Verizon Buy Sprint? - WSJ Blogs
2. Is Amazon Rethinking Its Movie Download Service? - TechCrunch
3. News Via Old Fashioned Means Put on Dead Pool Watch - TechCrunch
4. Google Backs Harvard Scientist’s 100,000-Genome Quest - Bloomberg
5. Debit Cards in Use to Reach 5.2 Billion in 2012 - Global Industry Analysts
6. Widgets: The […]

1. Verizon’s New Rate Plans…Cruising for Bruising - GigaOm
2. Reasons to go contactless - Digital Money Forum
3. Slow penetration - Digital Money Forum

This week’s Carnival of Mobilists is up at WAP Review. The Carnival features the best blog posts on all things mobile-related from the past week.
Included is our Nokia as Mobile Catalyst post on what the term “open” means for all players in the mobile ecosystem.

This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up and hosted by C.E.H. Wiedel from One Man Band: DIY Online Business for One. The CoTC is a weekly roundup of quality business and economic posts from bloggers working outside of the mainstream media.
Our Apple’s Achilles Heel post is included as part of the […]

For a provocative view on Google, see:
When Google Grows Up: Author Nicholas Carr looks into the search giant’s future, and sees a very different company.

Now that the barrage of 2008 predictions are behind us, we thought we’d take the next couple of weeks to focus on the “realities” behind what some pundits have predicted. This week, we’ll tackle mobile, advertising, and publishing.
Advertising
Predictions: Online advertising will be resilient in 2008, with growth in online video ads, social networks and […]

By David Evans and Karen Webster
The following is an excerpt from an article originally published in ideas magazine. To download the full article, click here.
The newspaper business is being disrupted by the same phenomenon that gutted so many other businesses in recent years: the internet. It has given younger audiences a more familiar medium by […]

Is Sony going to flameout AGAIN with its Blu-Ray standard? Dreamworks and Paramount have just signed exclusives for HD-DVD (Dreamworks and Paramount Go HD DVD) and Gizmodo reports that the two new disc standards are neck to neck with the studios (Gizmodo on Blu Ray.) I still think it is too close to call but […]

A NYT article today claims “Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don’t.” But I still think the mobile phone is the advertisers dream. Most Americans carry one and an increasing number have ones with screens and broadband access that enable people to watch content.
Entertainment giants have begun producing things for the tiny screen like MTV’s […]