Contactless Challenge Day 6 – drinks and drive-thru

Our challengers aren’t being deterred in their quest to win #GemaltoNFC – not by a lack of NFC terminals outside London or the fact it’s their weekend. Jon Choo is still heading up the scoreboard with 179 points to Ewan MacLeod’s 126. Thanks to a visit to the cobblers (Timpson) but also managing to buy […]

Contactless Challenge Day 7: Airports & cupcakes

The contactless challenge is now entering its final few days, with Ewan MacLeod struggling to find companies willing and capable to accept contactless mobile payments. Ploughing on with continued tenacity, however, he has managed to clock up potentially vital points in his attempt to wrestle the lead back off Jon Choo. A trip to the […]

Are there limits to NFC and mobile payments?

As a regular follower, you’ll have read a post on the rise of eBanking and mobile payments in the USA. You might also have crossed the Atlantic (via social media) to see for yourself whether London is NFC-ready with our Contactless Challenge – encouraging two mobile influencers to compete to complete several NFC tasks with […]

Contactless Challenge Day 8: Integrating the old and the new

On the eighth day of the contactless challenge, the scores suggest that if you venture to London with an NFC-capable device, there are a variety of goods and services you will be able to pay for via contactless, if only at a selection of outlets. With Ewan now in Barcelona, will the GSMA’s favorite mobile […]

Contactless Challenge Day 9: Jon edges towards victory

With only one day remaining of our inaugural contactless challenge, our two competitors have been desperately searching for new ways to boost their total points – even if they are more than 700 miles apart. As revealed yesterday, Ewan has taken his contactless challenge international in Barcelona, while Jon continues in London. However, Ewan failed […]

Contactless Challenge: We have a winner!

It’s late in the day here in Europe, but not too late to announce our winner. We are pleased to confirm that, after ten days of intense competition, Jon Choo has run-out as the inaugural winner of the Gemalto Contactless Challenge 2012. Triumphing by a score of 227 to 153, Jon has maintained his early […]