In launching the Lighting Connector this week, Square has switched its focus back to its original magstripe card reader after focusing much attention the past few years on EMV-enabled readers. The ...

Magnetic stripe readers, you are the gift that keeps on giving. Unfortunately. Researchers from Rapid7 Inc. will demonstrate how point-of-sale systems and hotel keys with magstripe technology can be ...

A joint effort by Barantec and Quintron has brought a new card reader/key pad unit, the Tri-Guard, that combines and transitions three technologies, keypad, magstripe and proximity, to the market. The ...

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Square’s popular magnetic stripe card reader plugs into an iPhone headphone jack, giving small business owners who would otherwise go cash only the ability to accept debit and credit cards. But Apple ...

One of many ways that Americans are ridiculed by the rest of the world is that they don’t have chip and PIN on their credit cards yet; US credit card companies have been slow to bring this technology ...

With as many as 5 million mobile point-of-sale readers in circulation in the United States, mobile POS companies will have their hands full following the liability shift set for October 2015 when the ...