Works in Marketing for NFC at Thales. Blogs on all matters NFC, TSM and ecosystems. Lucky to live in Nice, not only for the sunshine but also to be among the first regular NFC phone users in the world.
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Posted on 05 March 2014 by
Regular followers of our blog will know we are interested in contactless payments around the world, but also in the UK in particular. We ran our first Contactless Challenge in London following the 2012 Olympics, pitting two influential bloggers against each other. This was swiftly followed by a similar challenge in the US. Now, however, […]
Posted on 25 February 2014 by
Continuing our Mobile World Congress influencer Q&A series, Tim Green from Mobile Money Revolution has asked why we need NFC when our money is going to the cloud and connectivity is everywhere. He believes that we could use email or apps instead. Do we think some new form of OTA mobile payment is the future? […]
Posted on 26 February 2013 by
As defined by the NFC Forum, ‘Near Field Communication (NFC) technology makes life easier and more convenient for consumers around the world by making it simpler to make transactions, exchange digital content, and connect electronic devices with a touch.’ I like this description as it implies that NFC makes life easier and more convenient, in […]
Posted on 28 June 2012 by
Today’s announcement that Orange will undertake the first large scale rollout of NFC-enabled SIM cards in France is more proof, if it were needed, that NFC seems to be on the cusp of mass adoption. For the last few years, influencers and industry heavyweights have questioned whether NFC would ever achieve widespread adoption and, if it did, what would […]
Posted on 29 February 2012 by
In the next post on our series answering questions from mobile influencers, Peggy Anne Salz of MobileGroove raises some thought-provoking points on mobile marketing and NFC payments. NFC-enabled mobile payments from Google and Isis are getting attention, while cloud-based payments offered by the likes of PayPal also appear to be picking up steam. So what […]
Posted on 27 February 2012 by
Mobile World Congress 2012 in all its glory is in full swing here in Barcelona and we have already been very busy at Gemalto, announcing UpTeq NFC, our smart SIM chip for mobile payments, as well as TSM solutions which we will be supplying to financial services company Chase. Bloomberg this morning covered the news […]
