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The real dawning of the IPTV and interactive TV age
Speculation about IPTV, interactive TV and additional uses for the set-top-box seems to have been ongoing for a while now. I remember sitting through a presentation 8 years ago called “Put Card in Telly” outlining how payments through your set top box could be THE thing in 2001. Aside from the technology, infrastructure and security issues (is it “safe” to enter your PIN into the insecure remote control?) there was a lot of scepticism about what we will and won’t do with TVs – the lean-back, lean-forward debate.
Tagged with Interactive T V IPTV Web TV
0 Comments. Posted by Victoria 31 March 2009
Mobile Application Pain – An Antedote
When you work with NFC all day, it's easy to get hung up on the more complex solutions - like payments & ticketing and vouchers. These services will certainly be the driving force for getting the infrastructure in place. But what I'm really looking forward to seeing is how NFC will solve some of the more basic challenges - like getting applications onto your phone.Tagged with Coupons Mobile Mobile advertising Mobile marketing RFID Sticky labels
0 Comments. Posted by James 24 March 2009
NFC based ID for students in Russia
Having spent a number of years living in Russia, I can imagine that taking a school trip there might be a little challenging. So I was really excited to be involved in a project designed to make the business of keeping track of people - in a very foreign land - a whole lot easier. A few NFC handsets, a java midlet, some RFID wrist bands and an established call centre is all it took!Tagged with Identity solutions Near Field Communication RFID
0 Comments. Posted by Victoria 16 March 2009
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.Tagged with Mobile Mobile payments Near Field Communication PayPass Wallets
0 Comments. Posted by James 09 March 2009
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We're genuinely excited about smart cards, near field communication (NFC), mobile phones and IPTV. We'd have to be - we work with them every day. This blog is part of our quest to share our insights and spread the word about the benefits these technologies can bring to payments and ticketing, loyalty and service discovery. We hope you'll like what you read and join the debate.
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