Last week I read some interesting comments that came out of the last MoMo London event on whether the mobile web is the only way to deliver mobile services, and whether it will fragment like every other mobile development platform. I thought it was
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
Last week I gave two presentations (linked below) at the Mobile Monday Global Summit 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia attending in my 'other' role as co-founder of MoMo Estonia, alongside speakers from the Mobile Marketing Association, AdMob and a range of other global companies. It
The clip starting at 10:00 in this video (courtesy Ketai) starkly represents why many mPayment schemes will not succeed - simply because you can do something doesn't mean you will or should do it.mPayments will certainly work, if they offer a significant benefit to the
This week Masabi are at the Infosec show at London's Olympia demonstrating our mobile solution for secure ID jointly developed with our partner GrIDsure. If you're interested in having a chat about our work in this area or mobile encryption and security in general feel
If you happen to be in Tartu, Estonia on April 28th then drop in to the next MoMo Estonia meeting at the lovely Ülikooli Kohvik to hear Masabi’s very own Giacomo present and myself take part in a round table discussion.The event topic will be:
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
As an RSS junkie, I get almost all of my mobile information through news feeds. Unfortunately, a few key sites just don't have them - most frustrating.Well, after a little research I discovered the excellent Feed43.com, which I have been testing for the last
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
Carnival of the Mobilists 108 is up at Skydeck now, and among the usual great writing features a link to my recent post on the reasons for mobile fragmentation - the same post which was also a late addition to Carnival of the Mobilists 107
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
My most recent task has been architecting the Playtech mobile product, which currently encompasses 10 games running on over 600 devices in 8 languages, each heavily customised for multiple licensees. Furthermore, the system was designed to continue scaling across more than a hundred licensees, with
This week's Carnival is hosted over at Mobile Point View, and once again Ben is featured for his most recent blog post on entropy and random number algorithm backdoors. Check out the Carnival for the best of the week's mobile writing!
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
It was very interesting to read about the latest update to Google Maps, one of the nicest J2ME apps around at the moment, which can now find your location without GPS. My instant reaction was – “Finally! But will the operators let them continue?”
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