12 September 2011 ~ Comments Off

NFC and Mobile Payments

The future of mobile payments and banking has become a hot topic of research and study.  This can be seen in the huge change in banking customer service to plastic credit cards being replaced with mobile applications.  However, I believe there are risks about near field communication (NFC) business services and the resulting customer behaviors. [...]

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18 July 2011 ~ 5 Comments

OAuth support in iOS

One of the hardest things to find in iOS is support for authentication methods like OAuth. While there are many solutions one of the best in my opinion is the RestKit framework. Why? For three reasons: The ability to call restful webservices using a client which parsers JSON and XML answers directly, through SSL or [...]

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29 May 2011 ~ Comments Off

The Social Effect of Credit Cards and Mobile Payments

Credit cards are a part of our daily life. We use them to pay dinners in restaurants, buy medical prescriptions and purchase the latest must-have gadget. A few months ago I started to think about the behavior behind different segments of credit cards (i.e. Gold, Platinum) and the motivations behind the users. I distinctly remember [...]

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