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Accept credit card swipes on your iPhone

August 4th, 2009 by Ted | Filed under hardware, news, software.

What could possibly be cooler–at a trade show or swap meet–than processing credit card payments via your iPhone or iPod Touch?  Engadget reports that a company called Square is developing just such a solution–with a magstripe reader that plugs into the headphone jack, yep the headphone jack, of the iPhone. It’ll even capture signatures that look like they were written with those fat preschool crayons.

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