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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 Sept 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 ...
4 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 ...
6 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 ...
8 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 ...
4 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 ...
3 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 ...
8 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 ...
3 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 ...
7 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 Sept 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 ...
3 Sept 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, ...