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Masabi are currently on the lookout for a server developer to join our team working from our London South Bank office, and we’re also interested in engaging a part time sysadmin. NO AGENCIES OR RECRUITERS please!
After many trials, NFC has been on the cusp of launching in Europe for some time now. It is regularly brought up in conjunction with mobile ticketing, which has been one of the key use cases always quoted for the Felica NFC system available in Japan for some years now.
The potential is huge – but where do we stand, in late October 2009?
Giacomo’s talk a few weeks back at the Mobile Ticketing Workshop in Århus, Denmark went down extremely well, rounding out an interesting discussion on the ins and outs of mTicketing. You can see his slides here:
Mobile Ticketing Workshop 2009
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The ability to take payments from the customer and initiate the ticket [...]
My colleague Giacomo will be presenting and taking part in a panel today on Mobile Ticketing at the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. Drop by if you’re around, and check back here later in the week if not for the slides!
Carnival of the Mobilists 190 over at WipJam voted my last post on handset statistics as joint top post of the week, thanks! As always the Carnival covers a whole range of great articles, check it out for the best in mobile writing.
Ben Whitaker will be speaking alongside Nokia at the Mobile Content Conference & Awards 2009 in Seoul, Korea next week…
Handset statistics are notoriously hard to come by – only the operators know what handsets are actually being used by all customers on their network, and they won’t tell. This post explains how to hack more meaningful statistics out of AdMob’s handset reports.
We’re finally able to show off some of the work we’ve been doing recently on local mobile webapps – interactive web pages which can be saved and run even when you’re offline…
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
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It covers some of our standard reference points, like the need for [...]
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 [...]