MasabiThe ticket machine in your pocket
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 dialogue hassle [...]
For those of you on the conference circuit, you can see Ben Whitaker from Masabi speaking about new mobile ticketing approaches for public transport including mobile payments via credit card this month at the UK’s ITS Passenger Information Interest Group’s seminar on Options for Ticketing and Standards in Ticketing which is on the 27th May [...]
We’ve just had a great chat with the extremely helpful RIM Developer Relations guys, and some things came out of it which we were only slightly aware of. None are secret, just buried in spec documents and forums, so I thought it would be worth putting them up on the blog in case they [...]
This Tuesday I’ll be at the Digital Money Forum, at the Guoman Hotel in Charing Cross, London.
As well as being on one of the expert panels on the afternoon on the first day, I’ll be around all of Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon if anyone wants to chat.
The expert panel with the vague title “London Calling” [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists 161 over at Mobify Me has nominated my last transcoder post as 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 and I will be talking about mobile security and demonstrating various things you can do to increase it at Mobile World Congress on Monday 16th in Barcelona. Our talk should encompass everything from common mistakes which reduce security through to what to do about transcoders breaking your HTTPS end-to-end security, and we [...]
Carnival of the Mobilists 158 over at RadVision has included my post on HTTPS and transcoders alongside a whole range of great articles, check it out for the best in mobile writing!
After reading the interesting discussion about mobile transcoders and HTTPS security on the MoMo London mailing list (may require sign-in), based on some related discussion around the new W3C guidelines for transcoding, I thought there was some value in a blog post which explains the issues from more of a layman’s perspective.
First up – transcoders [...]
Thanks to Helen for including Ben’s last post on this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists – check it out for writing on all sorts of interesting topics, and plenty of good New Year predictions!
Finally, after a year of work, the new mobile and self-print barcode standard for UK rail tickets has been approved by the central railway standards body, RSP, a part of ATOC.
The following post intends to give a more detailed understanding than that provided by the general media coverage.
What does this mean?
It means that mobile ticket [...]