I had a bit of an NFC wobble last night. The problems at Marks & Spencer and then again at WH Smiths in Waterloo really took quite a toll on my confidence in the technology. I was nigh on utterly despondent last night. It was so depressing having to bring out my credit card to [...]
I didn’t have a good evening last night when it came to contactless. Oh no. Not good at all. If you’d like to see me look a total fool, I won’t spoil the details by describing what happened. Instead, I’ll let you experience it “live” as I did. The background is simple: I intended going [...]
This morning I hadn’t experienced the ‘beep’ and the brief elation that comes with tapping your phone on or near a credit card payment terminal. But by midday I was rocking. I started out at Timpson, the shoe repair people. I needed to buy some shoelaces and thought this would be a reasonably safe place [...]
The MIR audience is brilliant. You’re all stars. James Body of Truphone in particular — he tweeted me this morning suggesting that I take a look at shoe-repair and photography chain, Timpson: @ew4n @mobileindustry How is the #GemaltoNFC Challenge going? There are only so many burgers that you can eat – Hurrah for Timsons ! [...]
The other day I had cause to be in Southwark. I had a meeting taking place near The Refinery bar and restaurant. I had a few minutes spare and popped in there to get a coke and check my email. At the bar I noticed the machine was contactless compatible. Cue #GemaltoNFC challenge! In readiness [...]
It’s me again. I’ve got more flipping heartache for you regarding my attempts to flatted my rival, blogger Jon Choo, in our quest for glory with Gemalto’s Contactless Challenge. My local Chinese place has got a new credit card machine. I noticed this a few weeks ago. I presumed it would do contactless payments. So [...]
If you haven’t read this post about the Contactless Challenge I’m doing, please check it out first. It’s got some valuable data, including the task sheet. I’m writing to you now, dear reader, about the first item on the task sheet. It reads thus: ‘Invest’ in a box of 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts with which to [...]
For the next 10 days or so I’m participating in Gemalto’s Contactless Challenge. It’s me, dear reader, pitted against blogger Jon Choo. We’ve both been issued with Samsung Galaxy SIII devices pre-loaded and ready to rock with the Orange QuickTap wallet app for Android. This uses the integrated NFC features of the Galaxy along with [...]
I think this is the kit I need to properly participate in the Gemalto Contactless Challenge! Let’s have a look: Yup! Right. Time to get it charged.
Here’s a video I shot recently of Ken Abbott, Head of Web Communications for Gemalto, telling us about the upcoming Contactless Challenge that I’ve agreed to participate in. You can find out more information on my previous post and on Gemalto’s blog. Standby for more news soon!
Gemalto is a world leader in digital security. Last year they did €2+ billion in revenue with well over 10,000 employees across 43 countries. They’re perhaps best known in the mobile world as the people who make SIM cards — but that is most definitely not where it stops. Did you know, for instance, that [...]
Here’s the second episode in the Fourth Series of the 361 Degrees Podcast. Standby for a rollercoaster of a ride… This week we talk about 4G as it arrives – at last – in the UK. Surely faster is better… isn’t it? And if it won’t be super fast why else might it be better? [...]
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