Posted on 27 April 2012 by Thales DIS
Today, smartphones give us round-the-clock access to a wealth of information and services. We can book hotels, email colleagues or reserve a table at our favourite restaurant (and even pay the bill via the handset). But what about those of us who don’t own a smartphone? In countries such as the US and the UK, […]
Posted on 29 December 2011 by Laurence Cohen
Imagine the following: being able to pay for your taxi with your phone, buying a TV online without needing to set up an account with Amazon or other merchants, using your phone, transferring money to your savings account or topping up your checking account, with your phone, sending money to a contact who can retrieve […]
Posted on 24 November 2011 by Thales DIS
Hello from Paris at the EBG event. The catchphrase these past two days has been ‘If you snooze, you lose.’ While that might be taking it a bit far, it’s certainly true that it’s been a highly engaging and fast-moving conference in a fast-moving and evolving industry. And, having dosed up on coffee, I’m keen […]
Posted on 10 October 2011 by Tim Cawsey
This is my last in a series of 3 blog posts about our recent conference on the mobile revolution held at La Cantine in Paris. Over the evening we looked at how the mobile has changed society as a whole, including way we pay and access social networks.
Posted on 03 October 2011 by Tim Cawsey
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 15 September 2011 by Thales DIS
Bruce Schneier’s recent post in which he said that secret questions had reached a ‘new low’ may have shocked some casual observers, but for me it simply underlines a problem which is all too common. Personal verification questions (PVQs) and answers have been the de facto solution for forgotten passwords since the creation of email […]