Tim Green, Author at MEF

Visa is a different company this week – and it’s all thanks to mobile

There was a time when a payments network had to do one thing: verify and process transactions made with pieces of plastic in shops. Not any more. Payments have gone virtual. People expect to make them anywhere. Last week, Visa responded to this change by turning into a software company.…

Tim GreenFebruary 11, 2016

Connectivity & Wholesale Opinion

An exclusive glimpse behind the scroll wheel of the Apple Car

The new Apple Car won't have door handles and will be incompatible with all your other cars. But that won't stop you wanting one. Tim Green takes a light-hearted look at Apple's move into motoring... The tech blogs have been buzzing for months about the prospect of the Apple Car.…

Tim GreenFebruary 4, 2016

Opinion

Google wants you on the appternet

Last week, Google unveiled an option to install apps, not from Google Play, but from search results. More evidence that the firm desperately wants apps and the web to play nicely together. Google really loves the web. The web has made Google a $527 billion company. Why wouldn’t Google love…

Tim GreenJanuary 28, 2016

Opinion

Back to the future of mobile TV

Can LTE broadcast make it possible for us to watch live football on our phones without the network falling over? When I’m on my deathbed and asked if there’s anything I regret, I’ll know exactly what to say: I wish I hadn’t spent so much time writing about mobile broadcast…

Tim GreenJanuary 7, 2016

Payments & Commerce

A year in mobile payments: part 2 (July to December)

Tim Green singles out the news events that changed mobile payment in 2015. Here’s part two from July to December…

Tim GreenDecember 30, 2015

Mobile Evolution Payments & Commerce

A year in mobile payments: part 1 (January to June)

Tim Green singles out the news events that changed mobile payment in 2015. First, January to June…

Tim GreenDecember 24, 2015

Opinion

Many happy returns SMS – the great survivor

Today is SMS’s birthday. To celebrate, Tim Green tries to convince us that the messaging medium resembles an old Hollywood character actor: grizzled but effective… SMS is a bit like the actor Robert Vaughn, isn’t it? You think surely it/he is dead - but no, there he is on Wikipedia.…

Tim GreenDecember 3, 2015

Opinion

In case you missed it, Google just re-wired the mobile ecosystem

If Google can stream mobile apps, why download them at all? Tim Green ponders the search giant’s latest effort to swing the pendulum back towards mobile search...

Tim GreenNovember 26, 2015

Meffys

You stay classy, Meffys

The winners at last week’s Meffy awards event reflected the global, life-improving nature of today’s mobile content. What a long way we’ve come from appalling Java games and inexplicable on-device portals, says a battle-scarred Tim Green... Over 12 years of Meffys, a small number of things have stayed the same.…

Tim GreenOctober 29, 2015

Guest blog

Whiplash is a film about drummers that’s really about startups

Photo Credit: Daniel McFadden, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Why does a movie that tells the story of an obsessive jazz musician make Tim Green think of Uber? I’ve just seen the film Whiplash for the second time. For those who don’t know, Whiplash is a highly acclaimed movie about…

Tim GreenOctober 1, 2015

Visa is a different company this week – and it’s all thanks to mobile

An exclusive glimpse behind the scroll wheel of the Apple Car

Google wants you on the appternet

Back to the future of mobile TV

A year in mobile payments: part 2 (July to December)

A year in mobile payments: part 1 (January to June)

Many happy returns SMS – the great survivor

In case you missed it, Google just re-wired the mobile ecosystem

You stay classy, Meffys

Whiplash is a film about drummers that’s really about startups

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