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Square Payments System Gets a Free Hardware Boost

Square--that plastic gizmo that plugs into your iPhone and reads magnetic stripes--may, or may not, revolutionize the credit-card system. Inventor Jack Dorsey has, however, removed one big barrier to success: He wants to give it ...READ»

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Wal-Mart Hacked: Is Credit Card Data Safe?

Source code for Wal-Mart's point-of-sale computer system was hacked and siphoned into Eastern European computers in 2005 and 2006, Wired.com reported today. The scale of the attack calls into question whether major retailers have been ...READ»

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Forget Netbooks: Credit Card-Sized PCs Are the Future

I've suggested several times that in the near future computers will penetrate nearly every aspect of your daily life: After all, netbooks are relatively new tech and they're small enough to slip into a purse or (large) pocket in the ...READ»

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