Posted on 16 November 2012 by Tim Cawsey
If you read my recent blog post about our forthcoming Contactless Challenge, you may wish to know more about the technology behind the payments that Ewan MacLeod and Jon Choo will be making in and around London in the coming weeks. I’ll admit, inspired by the latest James Bond film, I may have been a […]
Posted on 23 January 2013 by Marta Bordonada
It has been available in South Korea for years and in Norway since 2009. Japan launched LTE in 2011 and the US has been shouting about its own successes in delivering LTE these past few years too. Now, 4G is finally also available in the UK. A 4G mobile network, the successor to 3G, launched […]
Posted on 05 March 2014 by Dominique Brulé
Regular followers of our blog will know we are interested in contactless payments around the world, but also in the UK in particular. We ran our first Contactless Challenge in London following the 2012 Olympics, pitting two influential bloggers against each other. This was swiftly followed by a similar challenge in the US. Now, however, […]
Posted on 28 November 2014 by Thales DIS
Mobile tracking in phones will soon help UK 999 operators track the location of emergencies to within 30m; connected cars will automatically call for help in the case of road incidents, and watches now come equipped with life-saving SOS buttons.