The Big Mouth Blog

Something to Vine About: Our review of Twitter’s new social media app

Last week, Twitter launched Vine – a new mobile service that allows users to share six-second videos. These clips are the video equivalent of a tweet: concise, random and witty. We thought this was a great idea and believed the program would bring social media to a whole new level. One of the promotional photos says: “Capture your [...]

The End of Credit Cards is Coming

By Blake Ellis CNN Money Click here to read the full article Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember those?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins. You can already use your iPhone, Droid or BlackBerry to buy a hotdog at the ballgame, buy your [...]

More Payment Card Readers for iPhone

By Daniel Wolfe American Banker Three more companies have announced card readers that work with Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Hypercom Corp. announced Tuesday that it would sell two versions of a card reader that plugs in to an iPhone and uses its wireless connection to handle card payments. The SmartPayments Mobile devices are aimed at merchants [...]

Hypercom Introduces Secure Payments Solutions For iPhone

SmartPayments™ Mobile Encrypted Card Reader, Barcode Scanning, Signature Capture and Payment App Bring New Capabilities to Apple’s Popular Smartphone Las Vegas, Nevada - Hypercom Corporation today unveiled the first two members of a product family that enable smartphones to accept card payments. The two elegant, state-of-the-art SmartPayments Mobile payment solutions are for merchants with Apple® iPhones® who [...]

Ease traveling with technology

As travel season approaches, it is time to start thinking about how to make our trips a little easier. Nowadays, thanks to the help of countless technology options, it is much easier to plan trips and ease stress when you get to your destination. John Wenzel of The Denver Post wrote an article last Friday [...]