The BBC post notes that a card reader in 1970 could read a credit card out of your pocket today if it still had a magnetic stripe. Infamously, IBM’s CEO at the time was not a fan, reportedly ...

Mastercard is getting rid of magnetic stripes on its credit and debit cards over the next 10 years, part of a broader push from the company to use “more capable and secure” alternatives to the ...

Los Angeles, CA October 29, 2011. Card Scanning Solutions, the leader in image processing and OCR technologies, recently released a Java API for their Magnetic Stripe Reader SDK.