A merchant terminal that reads and writes a credit or debit card that contains a microcontroller chip. To make a payment, the card is inserted into the reader and removed when the transaction is ...

The Amsterdam banking technology company Gemalto NV has received approval to offer in Europe a payment card reader designed to improve the security of online banking sites. Barclays PLC has agreed to ...

The HandySwipe project provides a portable magnetic card reader interface and display which collects card data from a Type 2 card reader and displays the data on a small character LCD screen. The most ...

RFID tags wirelessly provide a wealth of information on products or other items, but they can only be read by dedicated portable devices. That may soon change, however, as a tag-integrated chip and a ...