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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
04-Mar-2008 20:08:00

RSS Feeds for the Community

As an RSS junkie, I get almost all of my mobile information through news feeds. Unfortunately, a ...
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 ...
28-Jan-2008 18:56:00

Carnival of the Mobilists 107/108

Carnival of the Mobilists 108 is up at Skydeck now, and among the usual great writing features a ...
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 ...
14-Jan-2008 20:42:00

The Truth About Mobile Fragmentation

My most recent task has been architecting the Playtech mobile product, which currently encompasses ...
09-Jan-2008 19:43:00

Carnival of the Mobilists

This week's Carnival is hosted over at Mobile Point View, and once again Ben is featured for his ...
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 ...
01-Dec-2007 12:40:00

Cell IDs and Location-Based Services

It was very interesting to read about the latest update to Google Maps, one of the nicest J2ME apps ...
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 ...
10-Aug-2007 13:33:00

Thick vs Thin Clients In Mobile Today

There are three ways to handle data services with the owner of a mobile phone – via SMS, with a wap ...
08-Aug-2007 10:50:00

Wanted: Testing Guru

Masabi are looking for a London-based Mobile Software Tester to come and work at our offices on the ...
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, ...
04-Jul-2007 19:53:00

A Mobile Software Primer

I originally started this post to talk about mobile statistics, and particularly the difficulties I ...
28-Jun-2007 22:33:00

Welcome

Welcome to the Masabi blog. We'll endeavour to bring interesting and pertinent insights into the ...