Fare Payments-as-a-Service Blog

Ben Whitaker

A Co-Founder of Masabi, Ben is the company’s Chief Evangelist, focussing primarily on innovation at the company, as well as helping agencies to understand how to bring new technologies into their transit operations without the expense and risk of multi-year large capital projects.
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Recent Posts

18-May-2023 13:23:13

Myth Busted: “Because We Want to Integrate CAD/AVL We Have to Buy Bespoke Fare Collection Systems”

Guest blog post by Ben Whitaker, Chief Evangelist and Co-Founder of Masabi. The transit industry ...
29-Nov-2022 11:30:00

Blockchain and Transit Tickets - Useful or Wasteful?

Blockchain can be used for more than just cryptocurrency, the underlying technologies can be used ...
19-Sep-2022 08:30:00

Do Shared Fare Collection Platforms With Continuous Updates Herald The 'End of Obsolescence'?

Bespoke fare collection systems have a finite lifespan and are struggling to keep pace with the ...
04-Jul-2022 21:41:27

New report from CHYP says changing HOW you procure fare collection can save between 42% and 73% - but changing WHAT and WHEN can save even more.

With the backdrop of multi-year delays to some high-profile bespoke fare collection upgrade ...
26-Jun-2010 20:16:51

VACANCY: Java Server Developer - Develop something amazing and Useful

Masabi are currently on the lookout for a server developer to join our team working from our London ...
20-Jan-2010 02:00:57

Masabi and Access IS create mobile barcode scanner With Oyster-like speed and reliability

Mobile barcodes now suitable for mass-transit applications; technology streamlines rail ticketing ...
06-Jan-2010 13:29:46

Making Mobile Commerce Relevant for the Man on the Clapham Omnibus

This is a re-print of an article we wrote for the new Mobile Money Exchange community forum set up ...
17-Aug-2009 10:05:00

3 Job Vacancies: Mobile Tester, Server Dev and Mobile Dev

Firstly: NO AGENCIES OR RECRUITERS! (We are interested in pro-active candidates who are motivated ...
30-Jul-2009 10:38:00

StreetVendor - Mobile Financial Services platform

Today we put out a press release about StreetVendor, the product we've built together with ...
08-Jun-2009 14:53:00

Speaking at Train Communications 2009

Another chance to meet up with Masabi, when we speak on the Thursday afternoon of Train ...
04-Jun-2009 18:30:00

ITS Transport Standards Seminar - summary

Write up of the recent Intelligent Transport Systems' Seminar on Standards in UK Ticketing Wed 27th ...
13-May-2009 17:46:00

Masabi speaking at ITS UK Ticket Standards Seminar, and at European Telco Strategy event

For those of you on the conference circuit, you can see Ben Whitaker from Masabi speaking about new ...
25-Mar-2009 18:17:00

Digital Money Forum - London 31st March

This Tuesday I'll be at the Digital Money Forum, at the Guoman Hotel in Charing Cross, London. As ...
16-Dec-2008 10:50:00

New Mobile Barcode tickets for UK Rail

Finally, after a year of work, the new mobile and self-print barcode standard for UK rail tickets ...
21-Jul-2008 09:52:00

Masabi's mates "Hamfatter" on Dragon's Den

One of our recent clients, the band Hamfatter (who we built a mobile promo site for) are on UK TV's ...
03-Jul-2008 12:16:00

Job Vacancy: Mobile Tester

Masabi are looking for another London-based Mobile Software Tester to come and work at our offices ...
13-Apr-2008 15:06:00

Ideas for Interoperability of Secure Barcode Tickets

Barcode ticket security is a growing issue (we get asked about it all the time) and there aren't ...
08-Feb-2008 13:20:00

Masabi speaking at Mobile World Congress

Quick note that Ben Whitaker (me) will be speaking briefly at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona ...
17-Jan-2008 11:26:00

GSMA Barcelona - will it be the first time that we met?

Masabi will be at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday 11th to Tuesday 12th ...
19-Dec-2007 11:44:00

Did the NSA put a back door in our Mobile Security? (and more about bad random number generators)

After the recent discovery of a potential back-door in a NIST approved random number generator, I ...
03-Dec-2007 09:31:00

Job Vacancy: Java Developer

NO RECRUITING AGENTS! (I really mean this, I will be very rude to any recruiter that calls, you ...
16-Nov-2007 15:22:00

EncryptME Wins IET Security Award

We're delighted to announce that Masabi's EncryptME won the security category at the IET's annual ...
07-Nov-2007 16:29:00

event: Masabi at Cartes show in Paris

Masabi will be at Cartes, the International Identity and Credit Cards show in Paris next week on ...
20-Sep-2007 17:18:00

Two Factor Authentication (2FA) - Opportunity and Pitfalls

In this post I will describe the need for Two Factor Authentication (2FA), the problems with ...
03-Sep-2007 12:36:00

2FA demo in Cambridge on Wed 5th Sep

Two Factor Authentication systems have come under fire recently from hackers and researchers for a ...
13-Jul-2007 21:57:00

Problems with Mobile Security #1

Mobile ticketing, m-commerce, secure messaging, corporate applications, government communications, ...
12-Jul-2007 12:27:00

September 12th - Cambridge Wireless event: "Money Talks"

Money Talks! Have you ever sat at a mobile conference listening to a speaker and thinking 'Okay, ...