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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 […]

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 5 – finding NFC venues

We are now half way through the challenge. It is set to run until Wednesday at midnight when the final scores shall be counted and the winner of #GemaltoNFC announced. But that’s still some way off, and there are plenty more contactless challenges that our NFC battlers can complete. To summarize recent events, Ewan MacLeod […]