As the growth of sophisticated mobile devices becomes ever more pronounced in modern society, barcodes are beginning to emerge as a new channel through which these devices communicate and relay information for us. While conventional 1D barcodes have existed on everyday consumer items for some time, we are now beginning to see 2D barcodes surface [...]
With this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona just over a week away, there is a palpable sense of excitement in the air, and the mobile world is poised for the biggest calendar event of the year. This year, Masabi will have its first ever exhibition space at MWC, and we invite everyone to visit [...]
Masabi has a fully integrated Android app launching early next year, with a UI carefully crafted to fit the current best interface guidelines for the platform, adapting to different device form factors (just as we do with our MIDP apps) and integrating into the OS and other apps using carefully designed intents, content providers etc. [...]
Since its publication on the Nokia Ovi Store on Thursday, the timetabling and ticketing app developed by Masabi has attracted a number of extremely positive reviews from both technology journalists and app users in general. A quick glance at the Ovi Store page for “Trainline Tickets” sees the app rated four out of five stars [...]
We are very pleased to announce that thetrainline app for Blackberry, Nokia, and Sony-Ericsson, developed in conjunction with Masabi, was featured as the Sunday Times Travel App of the Week over the weekend! The article appeared in the travel section and is available here (for Sunday Times digital subscribers). A slight clarification ought to be [...]
You can now buy train tickets over your mobile with the new thetrainline.com app for selected Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung and Sony-Ericsson phones with support for more handsets coming soon (for a full list of compatible handsets check www.thetrainline.com). Developed in conjunction with Masabi, it’s free to download and is available now – to get the [...]
Masabi are currently on the lookout for a server developer to join our team working from our London South Bank office. Firstly: NO AGENCIES OR RECRUITERS! We are interested in pro-active candidates who are motivated enough to find us by themselves. DEVELOP SOMETHING AMAZING AND USEFUL Ending the pain of queues at Railway stations, Masabi [...]
There has to be a compelling user benefit, or significant user pain to persuade somebody to try a new technology.
There also has to be a compelling business benefit, (preferably with a year-one breakeven these days) for the service to ever get the marketing and promotion it needs.
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?
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…