MWC: bringing SMS and mobile barcodes to railway tickets - the wrong way and the Masabi way

Mobile ticketing company Masabi has an interesting theory about mobile: most people really don’t care about it. I happen to agree with them there - most people just use voice and text. So over the last 8 years, Masabi has concentrated on making a railway ticketing system so simple and pleasant to use that even people who find SMS “new fangled” will appreciate it. I sat down this morning with CEO Ben Whitaker to look over the service… and I liked it. A lot.

Mobile Money roundup: iPhone credit card transactions from Encore, and mobile banking in Africa

Here are three mobile money stories that caught our eye during the day. African operator Zain is further pushing it’s mobile payment capabilities with TV provider Multichoice; US-based Encore is enabling credit card payments for merchants over the iPhone; and a new service from Masabi and Mi-Pay aims to use mobiles to replace banks in poorer areas of Africa.

Masabi Mobile Barcode Tickets -but why use another standard?

We wrote about this earlier this week Masabi Train tickets: http://www.gomonews.com/masabi-win-contract-to-provide-mobile-ticketing-for-all-uk-train-services/
I slightly disagree with this particular barcodes article as I read in dread that Masabi is actually talking about creating a “NEW” standard.

Now, GoMo News has made its position on standards clear. Only one is needed for the whole mobile code industry. So why create [...]

Masabi win contract to provide mobile ticketing for all UK train services

Rating: UK rail ticketing body agrees on one standard to apply to all regional services

Masabi is a UK company that concentrates on building secure applications for mobile phone billing and purchases. Today it announced that its mobile barcoding service has been adopted for all UK train services by the Rail Settlement Plan (RSP), the UKs [...]

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