A little more than a year ago, I attended my first Smart Card Alliance event in Chicago. Having a background steeped more in network security than in payments security, I'll admit now that much of what I saw and heard at the show might as well have been written in Sanskrit for all the good it did me. Read More

Recently, Erik Vlugt, VeriFone VP Product Marketing, sat down with David Evans from PYMNTS.com to talk about EMV from a security perspective. Read More

(Note: This is the first of a two-part series. Look for the second installment in the next week)

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For something a bit different...fans of the "Late Show with David Letterman" may have caught the recent episode where the Late Show crew dropped by the new Pie Face Bakery Cafe just around the block from the studios in NY. In the video, you can clearly see the MX 800 series payment devices that Pie Face has integrated into its POS. What you can't see, is how Pie Face leverages the VeriFone VX 680 GPRS functionality when the lines get long, to take the counter to the people standing in line in the street.