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Retail focus: 10 ‘pay at the table’ apps to watch

A group of startups are competing to transform the restaurant experience. Here are the leading candidates… When experts discuss mobile payments, they often say it’s not payment that needs fixing. Swiping or tapping a card is no problem for most people. Instead, it’s the retail experience that needs an overhaul:…
Tim Banks
December 31, 2015
Mobile PaymentsTech Focus

Retail focus: A brief history of mPOS

In barely five years, mPOS has transformed business for thousands of small merchants worldwide. It’s also yielded one headline-making IPO. But questions remain about the space. Here, MEF Minute takes a look at the past, present and future of mPOS... Shoppers hate queues. Shop assistants hate queues. CEOs of retail…
Tim Banks
December 9, 2015
PrivacySecurityTech Focus

Tech focus: mobile and biometric authentication

Heartbeat, iris, face, vein…every one is a potential identifier of you. So can biometric authentication rescue us from the hell of remembering passwords? Passwords and PINs are a nightmare. Criminals can phish for them or use ‘brute force’ attacks to try millions of combinations in split seconds until they find…
Tim Banks
November 18, 2015
Tech Focus

The future focus for smartphone cameras

In the race to make our selfies look even better, phone makers are working hard on new camera technologies. MEF Minute looks at the coming innovations in mobile photography… Remember your first camera phone? It wasn’t that long ago. The first mobile to feature a built-in camera was the Samsung…
Sam Hill
November 11, 2015
Tech Focus

Tech Focus: wireless power

Wires are disappearing from our desks thanks to wi-fi, Bluetooth and RF. But we still can’t lose those power cables. So when will charging go wireless? In 1955 something happened that would change family life forever. Engineer Eugene Polley created the ‘Flash-matic’ wireless TV remote. Living rooms and rear-ends would…
Sam Hill
October 28, 2015
Tech Focus

Tech Focus: mobile screens

Today’s smartphones are brilliant. But they do all broadly look the same. Can new display technologies bring back some experimentation? MEF Minute looks at screen innovation… It’s hard to overestimate the impact of phone screen innovation. Today, displays are so good we can happily watch entire box sets on them.…
Sam Hill
October 14, 2015
Tech Focus

The MEF Guide To… Augmented Reality

Every week, The MEF Guide To… gives you an useful primer on new technologies affecting the mobile ecosystem. This week the subject is augmented reality... Like its sister technology virtual reality, augmented reality is a new idea that’s been around for decades. The term was coined as far back as…
Sam Hill
September 23, 2015
Tech Focus

The MEF Guide To… Virtual Reality

This week, MEF Minute kicks of a new series, The MEF Guide To… giving you an essential primer on the technologies set to make an impact on the mobile ecosystem. This week the subject is virtual reality. There’s no doubt about it: virtual reality is the technology of the year. And the year…
Tim Banks
September 18, 2015
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