Costco is planning to deploy scanners at store entrances as a way to curtail non-members’ use of membership cards, the company announced. The members-only warehouse began testing the scanning of ...

Card Scanning Solutions, a developer of card reader systems using advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, announced the full support of their OCR Software Developer Kit (SDK) for ...

Love the free version of Evernote, but want a taste of the new premium features? Check out this quick way to activate the business card scanning feature for free. Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all ...

Persistent critters, those little analog cardboard rectangles. Even with the option to scan QR Codes, email vCards or bump phones to swap contact information, the venerable business card keeps on ...

Back when the PalmPilot was a New Thing, I remember opining in some now-defunct business magazine that a perfect PDA would have a business card scanner built in. I wasn't quite prescient enough to ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. Evernote just announced an ...

Next time you shop at Costco, don't be surprised if you're asked to scan your membership card rather than showing it to the employee at the entrance. In the "coming months," the warehouse store will ...

According to Engadget Samsung and Mastercard are teaming up to make a biometric scanning payment card. The card will have a built-in fingerprint reader to cover the biometric security. Mastercard ...

Nobody wants to type business card data into contacts, so it usually never gets entered at all. With these apps, your phone can do the heavy lifting for you. Throughout workdays, meetings and industry ...

How digital payments and the rise of contactless technology have made credit and debit cards more vulnerable to unauthorized scanning devices and RFID skimming. The latest risks of digital ...