Tag: Ewan macleod

Blog Standards: what you should be reading in 2013

With 2013 now well and truly underway, it’s time for us to take our now traditional look at the other tech, security and mobile blogs we think it’s worth keeping an eye on over the year ahead. While we trust you’ll all continue to check in here on a regular basis, here are five other […]

How ready is the US for contactless payments?

Seasoned readers of the blog will know all about the contactless challenge we ran in London last year. Two of the city’s finest mobile bloggers, Ewan MacLeod and Jon Choo, went head-to-head as they put London’s NFC payment infrastructure to the test. The findings were enlightening on the state of contactless payments in the UK, […]

Taking the Gemalto Contactless Challenge stateside

A couple of months ago, two bloggers in the UK took on Gemalto’s Contactless Challenge: a ten-day NFC quest in which they competed against each other to see who could be the most successful in going contactless. By the end, technology blogger Jon Choo emerged victorious with 227 points, while Mobile Industry Review’s Ewan MacLeod […]

Contactless Challenge Day 10: Winter Wonderland

After ten triumphant days of the Gemalto Contactless Challenge 2012, our bloggers can now enjoy a well-earned rest. Barcelona, despite being the spiritual home of Mobile World Congress for many years, didn’t quite offer Ewan the chance he needed to regain the lead he held in the early days of the challenge. Meanwhile, during day […]

Contactless Challenge Day 8: Integrating the old and the new

On the eighth day of the contactless challenge, the scores suggest that if you venture to London with an NFC-capable device, there are a variety of goods and services you will be able to pay for via contactless, if only at a selection of outlets. With Ewan now in Barcelona, will the GSMA’s favorite mobile […]