Category: Transport

Making travel more personal

Contactless travel cards aren’t new – many countries already offer them, from Hong Kong’s Octopus card to London’s Oyster card. What is the first of its kind, however, is a customized travel card, which is what Stockholm Public Transport (“Storstockholms Lokaltrafik”) is now offering.

U.S. Transit Riders Give Thumbs Up to Contactless Open Fare…

How many trains have you missed because you’re stuck in line waiting to a buy a ticket or to refill your fare card?  Even missing one is probably one too many.  If you follow the transit industry, you may have heard that several large U.S. agencies have announced plans to move to open fare transit […]

Future gazing à la Brazilian

So, over the course of our series of posts on Digital Brazil so far we have seen the digital potential of this rapidly-expanding nation. From its fast-growing economy, the shift of more than 30 million citizens into the ‘middle-class’ income bracket and the increasing digital literacy among all Brazilians, from working classes to the rich, Brazil’s […]

Payback time: eBanking and mobile payments in the USA

If you’re an avid reader of the Gemalto blog, it won’t surprise you to learn that digital commerce and eBanking adoption has risen significantly in the past few years, across the globe, from Turkey to Brazil. So how about the US? Well last year alone, the American Bankers Association found that some 62% of US […]

Influencing technology purchases in a super connected world

The internet influences our buying decisions. Whether in a personal or professional capacity, who doesn’t turn to the World Wide Web to look up a certain brand, product or service offering? In fact, a recent study by Nielsen in India looking at the influence of the internet on technology product purchases revealed that the internet […]

Are there limits to NFC and mobile payments?

As a regular follower, you’ll have read a post on the rise of eBanking and mobile payments in the USA. You might also have crossed the Atlantic (via social media) to see for yourself whether London is NFC-ready with our Contactless Challenge – encouraging two mobile influencers to compete to complete several NFC tasks with […]