Business card scanners are definitively niche products, but for those who need them, they can be invaluable. Consider the NewSoft Presto! BizCard Reader 6 ($119.95 direct): Smaller than most cell ...

Before, iris scanners were the stuff of movies: dusty laser beams glazing over eyeballs in futuristic sci-fi flicks. The technology in real life was too slow, clunky, and expensive to be viable. But ...

Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand's (IR) Security Technologies, announced today that an integrated HID iCLASS card reader is now an option available for its FingerKey DX ...

Using a biometric scanner on your credit card makes your transactions more secure, but it might not solve any real issues. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a ...

Membership has its privileges at Costco, and in a bid to keep it that way, the retail giant is piloting a new way to keep non-members out of its stores. Costco is testing card scanners at the ...

I’m happy with the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard, but I don’t love typing in new proper names or email addresses—the stuff that the iPhone OS can’t auto-correct properly. Since the business world ...

Step 1. Insert credit card. Step 2. Put your thumb on it. Step 3. Walk away with your purchase. At least that's the goal of new technology from MasterCard, which uses finger- or thumbprints directly ...