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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 ...
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 ...
23-Mar-2009 19:10:17

Red Herring Reveals Companies Selected as Finalists for the Red Herring 100 Europe 2009

Berlin, March 23, 2009 - Red Herring today announced that Masabi, the secure mobile applications ...
02-Mar-2009 14:37:14

Masabi Built SMS Tool Underscores Importance of Mobile Technology to Global Development Agenda

CAMBRIDGE, England, March 2, 2009 - kiwanja.net, developer of mobile technologies for social ...
26-Feb-2009 16:02:00

MWC 2009 talk: Challenges Building Secure Mobile Applications

Ben Whitaker and myself gave a presentation in the App Garage of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona ...
18-Feb-2009 11:57:00

Carnival of the Mobilists #161

Carnival of the Mobilists 161 over at Mobify Me has nominated my last transcoder post as Post of ...
13-Feb-2009 10:55:00

Transcoders round 2

It has been incredibly busy pre-MWC and so I have not yet pulled together our research into mobile ...
05-Feb-2009 16:15:00

Masabi Talking at MWC 2009

Ben and I will be talking about mobile security and demonstrating various things you can do to ...
26-Jan-2009 12:09:00

Carnival of the Mobilists #158

Carnival of the Mobilists 158 over at RadVision has included my post on HTTPS and transcoders ...
23-Jan-2009 11:44:00

How Do Transcoders Affect HTTPS?

After reading the interesting discussion about mobile transcoders and HTTPS security on the MoMo ...
05-Jan-2009 12:08:00

Carnival of the Mobilists #155

Thanks to Helen for including Ben's last post on this week's Carnival of the Mobilists - check it ...
16-Dec-2008 18:55:31

UK Rail Agrees Mobile Ticketing Standard

London, UK, 16th December 2008 - Masabi, the secure mobile applications company, today announced ...
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 ...
20-Oct-2008 11:15:00

Carnival of the Mobilists 146

Carnival of the Mobilists 146 over at London Calling has included Tom's post on NFC alongside a ...
15-Oct-2008 19:24:00

NFC - One Day, It'll Be Great

Currently there are two potential candidate technologies for scanning an electronic ticket held on ...
10-Oct-2008 17:48:00

FrontlineSMS (part 1) - the SMS Hub for NGOs

Recently we've been working with kiwanja.net, a mobile-focused specialist in anthropology, ...
06-Oct-2008 13:47:00

Job Vacancy: Server Programmer

Masabi are looking for a London-based Server Programmer to come and work at our offices on the ...
01-Oct-2008 10:33:00

Carnival of the Mobilists #143

Thanks to this week's host of Carnival of the Mobilists, The Phones Show, for voting my last post ...
24-Sep-2008 12:09:00

The Mobile Web and Fragmentation

Last week I read some interesting comments that came out of the last MoMo London event on whether ...
17-Sep-2008 19:59:00

Masabi Increases Mobile Application Usage by 50% with Encrypted SMS for Mobile Commerce

London, UK, 17th September 2008 - Masabi, the secure mobile applications developer, today announced ...
11-Sep-2008 19:43:13

Masabi Appoints Fred Metzgen Chief Executive Officer

London, UK, 11th September 2008 - Masabi, the secure mobile applications developer, today announced ...
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 ...
27-May-2008 09:21:00

MoMo Global Summit 2008 Talks

Last week I gave two presentations (linked below) at the Mobile Monday Global Summit 2008 in Kuala ...
24-Apr-2008 13:39:00

Judging When An mPayment Makes Sense

The clip starting at 10:00 in this video (courtesy Ketai) starkly represents why many mPayment ...
22-Apr-2008 14:26:00

Masabi at Infosecurity Europe 2008

This week Masabi are at the Infosec show at London's Olympia demonstrating our mobile solution for ...
15-Apr-2008 11:56:00

Masabi to Present at Mobile Monday Estonia

If you happen to be in Tartu, Estonia on April 28th then drop in to the next MoMo Estonia meeting ...
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 ...