Picture the scenario: you’re on a beach on an extended holiday lapping up the sun, your blood pressure level is back to normal, you can’t remember the last time you woke up before 8am, the stress of the office and everyday life is far behind you. How relaxing, right? Then your smartphone buzzes with a [...]

2011 represented a sea change within personal and corporate use of social channels with 10,000 tweets per second being sent during the recent superbowl while digital marketing and social media investments by companies are up even in an economic downturn. This evening I’ll be giving Gemalto’s view on social media use as part of Social Media Week

Today, dear reader, our blog is one year old. That’s right – our very first post was 365 days ago on 10th February 2011. We feel we have grown with the blog, expanding our hub to include a telecoms blog and one focused on enterprise security covering a multitude of topics and industries. While ‘Digital [...]

I’m pleased to say that Gemalto now supports Diners Club issuers worldwide in their EMV migration projects with smart banking cards, following an agreed deployment with Diners Club Spain during 2012. Diners Club cardholders will benefit from increased security for their financial transactions and a more convenient payment option when traveling internationally. It’s no secret [...]

It’s always pleasing to see creative, informed content get the recognition it deserves, particularly in the world of social media so I decided to look at some of the security, telecoms and emerging tech blogs that we’ve been following here at Gemalto.

India, as one of the BRICS, is a fast-growing and exploding country. Named a ‘superpower-in-waiting’ by The Economist recently, it is attracting investors and many a business to tap into this wealth of people, services and skills. Which creates wealth, and indeed, there is a booming middle class taking advantage of this growth, especially in [...]

Reporting from the last day of #CARTES yesterday. Personalized cards (AllAboutMe) have existed for a while but we have seen here at the Paris-based trade show just how funky and useful these can be. While there’s a lot of buzz around mobile NFC – just watch our video on it here – your credit and debit [...]

Mobile banking is a high priority for financial services organizations especially with the arrival of the Internet generation. Mobile services are now moving away from a stripped down version of the banks’ web sites but towards an app-based approach. What does this mean for banks and what will be the impact of the arrival of NFC?

On July 25th, we published the second edition of our sustainability report. Our first edition (unveiled in November 2010) was warmly received by our stakeholders, so we have been hard at work ensuring that this year’s is even more substantial. Although Gemalto is not a company with a particularly high carbon footprint, we still feel [...]

You may have seen our announcement yesterday with UniCredit in Slovakia where we were selected to supply stickers that contain a contactless payment function. These little beauties based on MasterCard PayPass technology can be stuck to any object turning it into a banking card. This means you no longer have to leave the house with [...]