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PayPal may go after Square's mobile payments

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 13th, 2012)

PayPal is planning to take on Square with a new payment processing dongle, says a report from GigaOM. The dongle will supposedly tie into PayPal's already robust payment processing system and will be targeted towards small businesses. Smaller companies would be able to use this system to process ...

RedEye launches mini app for IR plugin

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2011)

We've covered RedEye's IR dongle for the iPhone a few times. Originally, it was introduced as a complete add-on for the iPhone that allowed you to control any entertainment center reached by infrared. Over time RedEye has pushed to simplify the unit more and more, instead providing a cheaper and ...

BlueSLR allows iPhone users to remotely control DSLR cameras

by David Quilty (Dec 13th, 2010)

If you happen to own both a Nikon digital SLR camera and an iPhone and have been looking for a way that the two could work together, you may now be in luck. BlueSLR, which combines a Bluetooth accessory (dongle) that plugs into your SLR and an app you run on your iPhone (3G and up), iPod touch (2nd ...

Redeye mini dongle out now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 21st, 2010)

We posted about the Redeye mini a while back -- it's an IR dongle that hooks up to the audio port on the iPhone to let you control any IR device (your TV, DVD, or whatever else you've got) with the touchscreen on your phone. You need a free app from the App Store to use the dongle and it doesn't ...

Adafruit shows off the Square dongle for credit card payments on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2010)

Adafruit is one of a few companies that has been chosen to test the Square dongle that automagically takes credit card payments on any iPhone. Even though we got to see it in action at Macworld, I think every look we can get at this thing is worth it, considering just how darn revolutionary it ...

What do you do after you start Twitter? Invent a credit card reader.

by Steven Sande (Oct 19th, 2009)

If you were Jack Dorsey, one of the co-founders and current chairman of Twitter, you'd want to think about something else big to follow up on your huge success. While it doesn't sound like anything groundbreaking, Dorsey's new company Square is developing a tiny white cube (see photo above) that ...

BlueFlash: Bluetooth for the Apple II

by Mike Schramm (Aug 13th, 2007)

Never say die to the old Apple II. A hacker named Vinchysky has melded a Disk ][ controller card with a Xilinx FPGA, which in normal-person-speak means he's enabled you to plug a Bluetooth dongle into an Apple II. The hookup itself is basically just a USB connection, so you could conceivably ...