Global radio frequency identification (RFID) chip company Phychips is releasing an integrated circuit that enables higher sensitivity for handheld or fixed UHF RFID readers. The company announced its ...

Square has unveiled plans to release a new Square Reader – a smartphone and tablet dongle that allows businesses to easily accept credit card payments – that supports chip-and-signature cards in the ...

Unlike the regular iPhone-compatible Square swipe accessory, which the company has made available for free, the new Square Reader for chip cards costs $29. Another change: The new Square Reader ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Square has opened pre-orders for the next version of its credit card reader. The new device, an ...

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 ...

Merchants may have some difficulty switching to EMV cards next year, but at least they’ll have a range of options when it comes to payment terminals. Square is debuting its affordable chip card reader ...

Apple today announced a new partnership for Apple Pay with Square, which will release a new card reader designed to allow small businesses to take Apple Pay payments as well as credit card chip ...

Mircrochip has a new USB to Serial converter available called the MCP2200. [Sjaak] suspected that it may have been made from an existing 20-pin PIC and found that reading the device signature with the ...

SMSC today introduced a chip that enables a single USB hub to furnish not one but two host systems with access to a set of attached peripherals. The USB Multiswitch (USB2524) features two upstream and ...