I’m just back from presenting at the excellent Global Messaging 2009 event in Westminster, on the subject of what makes a good mobile service in the context of mobile ticketing and payments: Global Messaging 2009 – Mobile Ticketing and Payments View more presentations from Tom Godber. It covers some of our standard reference points, like [...]
I’ll be giving a talk on Secure Payment and Ticketing Applications at day 2 of Global Messaging Congress 2009 on Wednesday at the Queen Elizabeth centre in Westminster, so if you’re at the conference please come along, and I look forward to meeting you afterwards! I’ll post the slides up here as well, for anyone [...]
Last night Ben presented at Mobile Monday London’s demo night round the corner at IPC’s office behind the Tate Modern. Ben was presenting our mobile train ticketing solution, and it seemed to go down pretty well. Also there was a great roof terrace and free beer – almost enough to make me code a TouchWiz [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists 177 over at A Consuming Experience included my last post on Sony-Ericsson, thanks! As always the Carnival covers a whole range of great articles, check it out for the best in mobile writing.Incidentally I met Improbulus, who runs A Consuming Experience, whilst screening entries for the Vodafone Clicks competition last week [...]
Another chance to meet up with Masabi, when we speak on the Thursday afternoon of Train Communications 2009, held at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, near Charing Cross in London on 11th June 2009. http://www.traincomms2009.com/ (This conference used to be known as the Wifi on Trains conference.) Among the presenters will be train companies from India, [...]
Write up of the recent Intelligent Transport Systems‘ Seminar on Standards in UK Ticketing Wed 27th May 2009: [ WARNING: The top third is mobile ticketing, the rest is more general transport stuff ] Chair: Chris Queree, ATOC (Association of Train Operating Companies) Speakers: Ben Whitaker, Masabi Andy Donelan, Virgin Trains Grant Klein, Detica Mark [...]
There are a few interesting points raised in the technical details accompanying Sony-Ericsson’s recent announcement of the Aino and Yari handsets – app usability should improve, whilst Sony-Ericsson’s smartphone platform strategy is tending towards the Samsung “try ‘em all” approach… Concessions to Usability Most importantly for developers, the new handsets aim to reduce the permission [...]