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
Mobile barcodes now suitable for mass-transit applications; technology streamlines rail ticketing service, reducing costs for operators and improving consumer experience
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
Masabi are currently on the lookout for three new members of staff to join our team - a tester, a junior mobile programmer and a more experienced server programmer
Today we put out a press release about StreetVendor, the product we've built together with financial services and international payments experts Mi-Pay.The press release can be found if you click here, and to accompany it there is a video interview below:Screenshots of StreetVendor, showing both
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
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, MasabiAndy Donelan,
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
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
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
One of our recent clients, the band Hamfatter (who we built a mobile promo site for) are on UK TV's Dragon's Den tonight, making the normally aggressive investors sing for their supper, which should make for interesting viewing.They should be on GMTV and Radio2 on
Masabi are looking for another London-based Mobile Software Tester to come and work at our offices on the South Bank – our ideal candidate will be flexible and multi-talented, main responsibilities would include: Testing new applications across all our mobile handsets;Researching new
Barcode ticket security is a growing issue (we get asked about it all the time) and there aren't any standards yet for preventing unscrupulous individuals from altering the tickets that are issued.Barcodes are being used as a form of virtual ticket that you can print
Quick note that Ben Whitaker (me) will be speaking briefly at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona just after 15:00 on Tuesday 12th Feb at the Mobile Innovation Market Place in Hall 2, Auditorium B.This is thanks to Masabi being nominated as a "Top Innovator"______________For people
Masabi will be at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday 11th to Tuesday 12th February in the Mobile Innovation Marketplace.If you want to take the opportunity to meet us, at the venue or afterwards, then drop an email or SMS me on
After the recent discovery of a potential back-door in a NIST approved random number generator, I thought it would be timely to state clearly that we do not use the generator scheme involved, but a more straightforward AES based random number generator, which does not
NO RECRUITING AGENTS! (I really mean this, I will be very rude to any recruiter that calls, you have been warned.)Candidate must have Java experience, but doesn't necessarily need mobile experience.Variety of work, young team, exciting world-changing projects and located in the heart of London's
We're delighted to announce that Masabi's EncryptME won the security category at the IET's annual Innovation in Engineering Awards.Ben Whitaker, our head of security development, received the award from TV personality and science enthusiast Johnny Ball and Lance Howarth of ARM at an awards ceremony
Masabi will be at Cartes, the International Identity and Credit Cards show in Paris next week on 14th and 15th November.If you are interested in 2FA, digital identity, card fraud, e-commerce fraud, mobile security, mobile banking or any of the other things we love
In this post I will describe the need for Two Factor Authentication (2FA), the problems with existing 2FA, , and some of the emerging approaches to introduce stronger authentication methods - in particular, the opportunity to use mobile technology to avoid the hardware costs and