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High Risk Authentication

High risk authentication (banking, VPN), has always demanded separate hardware dedicated to authenticating users.  There’s good reason for having this additional security layer. Called two-factor authentication, the logic is simple - if one device is compromised, overall security isn’t breached.  Two common examples are:

• Card + reader.  Your bank issues you with a card reader, which you use in conjunction with your bank card
• Multi-purpose token generators

Unsurprisingly, with mobile phone subscriptions now outstripping the number of TV, personal PC and credit card owners, there’s strong interest in using them for authentication.

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Tagged with EMV Identity solutions Mobile Mobile payments Wallets

0 Comments. Posted by James 06 July 2009

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Demo Night at MoMo London June 2009

I had an excellent evening at Mobile Monday this week.  I was assigned the task of presenting my work for the past year – the Proxama NFC Wallet - in just 5 minutes.  Making a video proved to be a great way of getting lots of information across within the time-slot, still leaving me loads of time to talk!  A total of 15 people showcased demos but as we stuck within the same groups I only managed to see four other demos - all of which were very impressive! Full details on the MoMo site.

There were plenty of interesting questions from each session.  The audience is technically literate, well versed in mobile and pretty good at asking awkward questions. So - I thought it might be interesting to post some of the questions raised. I hope my answers were clear enough on the day to those who asked.

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Tagged with Mobile Mobile payments Near Field Communication PayPass Wallets

0 Comments. Posted by James 19 June 2009

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NFC Payment Confirmed

Anyone in the business of developing mobile applications is only too aware of the problems caused by J2me fragmentation. The lack of consistency in how handset manufacturers implement J2me has spawned a whole support industry – companies like Mobile Distillery exist precisely to ease this pain.

Java and NFC

Where developing NFC applications is concerned, there are only two handsets commercially available. (We know that LG and Sagem have models close to launch but Nokia is the only company that has a production line going). So in this respect, developing NFC applications is a dream. We write once and it runs anywhere. It’s not completely without issue though - there are some missing elements in the NFC API that Java applications use (the JSR257 specification to be precise) that do have an impact on application development.

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Tagged with Mobile Mobile payments Near Field Communication PayPass Wallets

0 Comments. Posted by James 09 March 2009

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