Posted on 18 September 2011 by
Near Field Communication is a hot topic in the news at the moment. Wherever you look, you see another story about a shop using NFC to enable contactless technology, or another mobile operator enabling its contactless payments with a touch of the cell phone. But what really stands out for the users? What do they […]
Posted on 29 September 2011 by
Yesterday I attended our second “bloggers” conference in Paris at La Cantine, a unique collaborative workspace and focal point in France for IT 2.0. Luckily, for those who couldn’t attend the event was videoed (link coming soon), unluckily, for most of you, it was all in French, luckily I speak the language of Sartre, Baudelaire […]
Posted on 03 October 2011 by
This is my second post on our recent conference on how the mobile had impacted society for our French followers at the IT crowd hang-out, La Cantine, in Paris last week. Last week I blogged about the rise of mobile social media and today it’s the turn of mobile payment.
Posted on 31 October 2011 by
Bertrand Leroux discusses the opportunities that the burgeoning mobile phone roaming market offers. He explains how telecoms companies are not maximising their potential by directing their users to the cheaper networks, meaning better value for customers and more profit for operators via potentially huge cost savings. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EbBGqyNWRg&list=PL576CC4AD88C67835&index=2
Posted on 09 November 2011 by
NFC is all about freeing us up – making purchasing simpler and more straightforward. The art of parkour or ‘free-running’ is the embodiment of movement without obstacle, pause, or thought. To us, it echoes the philosophy of NFC technology and the freedom it allows us every day. So, what’s the link?
Posted on 10 November 2011 by
Most people link mobile NFC directly to payment but as you’ll see in the clip below it creates a complete infrastructure with many use cases (and probably many more we’ve not even thought of yet). One example uses smart posters for marketing purposes. See how promotional vouchers can be emitted and redeeemed.
