Square wants to refresh the often unloved credit card reader. The payments company on Thursday introduced its newest piece of hardware, Square Terminal, a card reader that looks more modern than ...

When a card is fully seated in the reader, a miniature switch is pressed in. We didn’t see this inside the chip reader of the VeriFone 925CTLS payment terminal, as there was no reason to ever ...

Brian Krebs has found a fascinating example of a card skimmer ... that masquerades as a real POS terminal. The skimmer fits over the ubiquitous Verifone POS reader and even reads key-presses.

Remember the Square card reader and payment service from our first ... A few years ago, I decided to invest in Credit Card Terminal (US$0.99), one of the first payment apps for the iPhone.

Both PayPal and Stripe offer a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, which merchants can use to collect card payments. While some providers offer free POS hardware or credit card readers, PayPal and ...

If you have a smartphone -- be it an iPhone or an Android-powered phone -- you can use a portable card reader to take credit card payments anywhere you can get an Internet connection. Smartphone ...

There are smart terminals, smart point of sale devices and a brace of card readers. There’s the 2-in-1 option and a 3-in-1 reader unit too, as well as miscellaneous accessories designed to make ...

iPhones have long been treated as portable payment terminals — it's the concept upon which Square (now called Block) built its business back in 2009 by offering a magstripe card reader that plugs into ...