Fare Payments-as-a-Service Blog

17-May-2011 14:50:08

Life of Android App of the Week: Trainline Tickets

Our app for thetrainline.com is App of the Week on Life of Android. Life of Android is a site ...
13-May-2011 14:47:22

Masabi Wins Nomination for Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona 2012

Last night, Masabi won a competition organised by App Circus London to find the best mobile app ...
11-May-2011 15:03:21

Chiltern Railways Press Release: Simple Ticketing in an Instant with New App

Chiltern Railways launched a pioneering new approach to ticketing today at Marylebone station, with ...
06-Apr-2011 14:43:50

Masabi Feature in Latest Rail Technology Magazine

Masabi’s article on the ‘quiet but essential’ revolution in mobile ticketing was recently published ...
08-Mar-2011 16:01:55

Masabi CEO to Deliver Speech at The Future of Air Rail

Ben Whitaker will deliver a speech on 'Ticketing and Travel Booking' at The Future of Air Rail ...
04-Mar-2011 16:45:31

Connecting the Dots: An Introduction to 2D Barcodes

As the growth of sophisticated mobile devices becomes ever more pronounced in modern society, ...
03-Mar-2011 10:50:28

Buy Train Tickets on Almost Any Mobile Phone with thetrainline.com App Developed by Masabi

Now supports everyday handsets and high-end smartphones including: Blackberry, Nokia, Android, Sony ...
28-Feb-2011 16:19:23

Masabi CEO to Speak at Digital Money Forum 2011

Our CEO Ben Whitaker will be talking on the transport panel at Digital Money Forum 2011 this week. ...
22-Feb-2011 16:30:37

Masabi @ Mobile World Congress 2011

Last week’s Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona proved to be a hugely valuable event for ...
02-Feb-2011 12:50:08

Chiltern Railways Press Release: The iPhone revolution reaches rail in an end to ticket office queues

The iPhone revolution has finally reached rail travel with the announcement of a pioneering new ...
15-Dec-2010 12:43:51

Experiences Rapidly Porting J2ME Apps to Android

Masabi has a fully integrated Android app launching early next year, with a UI carefully crafted to ...
06-Dec-2010 18:09:30

Masabi Wins Software Innovation Category at Digital Entrepreneur Awards

London, UK – 6th December 2010 – Masabi, the developer of mobile ticketing technology for the ...
06-Dec-2010 14:44:25

Excellent Reviews for thetrainline.com Mobile App on Nokias

Since its publication on the Nokia Ovi Store on Thursday, the timetabling and ticketing app ...
01-Dec-2010 15:36:02

Thetrainline App Now Available on Nokia Ovi Store

Our train ticket app for thetrainline.com is now available for download from Nokia's Ovi Store! To ...
15-Nov-2010 14:45:52

Illustrating Gartner's Q3 2010 Global Handset Shipment Report

I created a quick infographic this weekend to illustrate the trends shown in Gartner's recent Q3 ...
09-Nov-2010 17:30:03

NOW HIRING: Mobile Developer, iPhone Developer, Production Manager - Change the Face of UK Transport

Following our stratospheric growth, the Masabi team are now hiring! We are looking for: Mobile ...
08-Nov-2010 17:06:26

thetrainline Mobile App Wins Sunday Times Travel App of the Week

We are very pleased to announce that thetrainline app for Blackberry, Nokia, and Sony-Ericsson, ...
04-Nov-2010 11:48:42

New Trainline App Arrives

You can now buy train tickets over your mobile with the new thetrainline.com app for selected ...
03-Nov-2010 18:18:31

Ticket Sculptures at Waterloo

Ed spotted these railcard ticket sculptures at Waterloo station today - it's definitely one ...
22-Oct-2010 09:35:57

Masabi Wins a Top Place on UKTI Stand at Barcelona MWC

Masabi walked away from the recent Mobile Monday competition with one of the top prizes on offer – ...
01-Oct-2010 13:13:01

Funding Your Startup slides from Android Developer Evening @TechHub

Ben's slides from the Android Developer Evening given a few weeks back at Old St's TechHub: View ...
28-Sep-2010 10:02:02

Masabi Secures $2 Million Funding from M8 Capital

LONDON, UK – 28th September 2010 – Masabi, the developer of mobile ticketing technology for the ...
24-Sep-2010 14:29:23

Masabi Named a Winner for Inaugural 2010 Bully Award

CEO of Masabi. “It’s validating to be named a winner of this prestigious award, and we accept and ...
23-Jul-2010 14:22:34

Passenger Focus Research Into Ticket Purchase Problems

Earlier this week Passenger Focus, the UK's official rail watchdog, released their annual Spring ...
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 ...
18-May-2010 10:20:38

Masabi Signs M-Ticketing Deal with thetrainline.com

LONDON, UK – 18th May 2010 – Masabi, the developer of m-ticketing software for mass-market phones, ...
08-Mar-2010 14:39:18

Expansion time again: Calling All Server Developers and Sysadmins

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 ...
22-Oct-2009 15:19:11

NFC Roundup - 2009

After many trials, NFC has been on the cusp of launching in Europe for some time now. It is ...
08-Oct-2009 14:56:00

Århus Mobile Ticketing Workshop slides

Giacomo's talk a few weeks back at the Mobile Ticketing Workshop in Århus, Denmark went down ...
06-Oct-2009 16:56:00

Thoughts on ITSO part 1: Smartcard Ticket Usability

On 28th October, the consultation period ends for the Department for Transport's paper Developing a ...
23-Sep-2009 00:24:00

Masabi at Aarhus Mobile Ticketing Workshop

My colleague Giacomo will be presenting and taking part in a panel today on Mobile Ticketing at the ...
12-Sep-2009 20:34:00

Top Post on Carnival of the Mobilists

Carnival of the Mobilists 190 over at WipJam voted my last post on handset statistics as joint top ...
04-Sep-2009 12:00:00

Masabi speaking in Seoul next week

Ben Whitaker will be speaking alongside Nokia at the Mobile Content Conference & Awards 2009 in ...
03-Sep-2009 18:34:00

Hacking AdMob Handset Statistics

Handset statistics are notoriously hard to come by - only the operators know what handsets are ...
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 ...
31-Jul-2009 17:27:00

Ticketing via Local Webapps

We're finally able to show off some of the work we've been doing recently on local mobile webapps - ...
30-Jul-2009 20:16:38

Masabi and Mi-Pay Make Mass Adoption of Mobile Financial Services Viable for Africa & Middle East

LONDON, UK- July 30th 2009 - Masabi, the developer of secure applications for mass market mobile ...
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 ...
01-Jul-2009 16:50:00

London Technology Network - Intelligent Transport

I just got back from presenting at London Technology Network's Intelligent Transport event just ...
24-Jun-2009 17:39:00

Global Messaging 2009 - Mobile Ticketing and Payments

I'm just back from presenting at the excellent Global Messaging 2009 event in Westminster, on the ...
22-Jun-2009 17:20:00

Masabi at Global Messaging 2009

I'll be giving a talk on Secure Payment and Ticketing Applications at day 2 of Global Messaging ...
16-Jun-2009 14:15:00

MoMo London Demo Night summary

Last night Ben presented at Mobile Monday London's demo night round the corner at IPC’s office ...
08-Jun-2009 18:04:00

Carnival of the Mobilists 177

Carnival of the Mobilists 177 over at A Consuming Experience included my last post on ...
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 ...
01-Jun-2009 13:28:00

Sony-Ericsson Handset Announcements

There are a few interesting points raised in the technical details accompanying Sony-Ericsson's ...
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 ...
22-Apr-2009 17:40:00

Interesting Blackberry Factoids for Developers

We've just had a great chat with the extremely helpful RIM Developer Relations guys, and some ...