Blogger profile: Tim Cawsey

Looks after Digital Communications in Thales' Digital Identity & Security business. As a jack of all trades and master of none, Tim blogs on a wide variety of B2B Tech topics. He is a British exile in Provence with an ever growing list of sports injuries. Personal tweets at @FactBoyTim


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Contactless Challenge Day 3: McDonald’s to the rescue

Jon Choo went into Day 3 of our Contactless Challenge with a twenty-five point lead following a hugely successful second day. However, a previously despondent Ewan MacLeod resolved to pick himself up and get back on the NFC payment wagon with a vengeance. Embracing (or should that be enduring) the London rain, Ewan headed out […]

Contactless Challenge Day 2: Post Office successes and cinematic failures

Our Contactless Challenge continues apace thanks to our determined NFC challengers Ewan and Jon. At the end of the first day they were matching each other, point for point, but Jon has now taken the lead with 101 points to Ewan’s 76. Despite Ewan managing to purchase some no doubt unhealthy treats (as the Krispy […]

Contactless Challenge Day 1: coffee, credit and Krispy Kremes

We are just one day into our Contactless Challenge and the competition is already in full swing. At 5pm on Day One, Ewan and Jon were neck and neck on points, but with a full nine days of competition remaining there’s still everything for our two cashless crusaders to play for. After some initial frustration […]

The Technology behind the Contactless Challenge

If you read my recent blog post about our forthcoming Contactless Challenge, you may wish to know more about the technology behind the payments that Ewan MacLeod and Jon Choo will be making in and around London in the coming weeks. I’ll admit, inspired by the latest James Bond film, I may have been a […]

NFC payments become available to millions of new users

This week we announced that we would be providing and operating the global Trusted Service Management (TSM) platform and NFC services for Vodafone Group, one of the world’s largest mobile communications service providers. Secure and convenient ‘wave and pay’ contactless transactions are going to become more and more common as handsets flow into the market […]

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