With the holidays coming it means it’s time for the Salvation Army to deploy it’s bell-ringers and red kettles to take donation, but this year the non-profit is testing a new way of taking donations with Square. This year the Salvation Army will equip 40 locations in Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago and New York (10 more »

It looks like the folks behind the Square have announced some new features including printable receipts and customer loyalty options. These latest changes will arrive with app version 2.2 which will be available for both Android devices as well as the iPhone and iPad. In terms of the features. In the past, the Square offered more »

It looks like the Square credit card readers have come to another brick and mortar retail store. The latest is Walmart, which means that the reader is now available at an additional 9,000 stores. Of course, this comes in addition to the Apple, Radio Shack and Best Buy stores that the readers were previously available more »

Square, the company that’s trying to change how you pay for things is trying to make purchasing items at stores just as easy as purchasing songs from iTunes. The new Square apps add functionality that was missing before, and brings us closer to that dream of easier purchasing. The new Square 2.0 app makes it more »

Apple has started offering the Square Credit Card Reader for iPhone not only from the Apple Online Stores but from Apple Stores as well. The Square Credit Card which is a small device which when connected to an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad allows you to accept payments through credit card. It actually mimics the more »

Square, the company behind those cute little credit card swipers that plug into the earphone jack on smartphones now claims they are processing over $1 million per day according to a tweet from the company co-founder. Reportedly, the company raised $27.5 million in funding recently. The company was also featured in yesterdays Apple iPad 2 more »

It is a concept by an artist that is in no way (as far as we know) associated with Apple. This concept, shows us where Apple may be headed next, a bigger screen. As the phone with just one model (assuming Mr. White iPhone keeps standing us up), part of Androids attraction has to be more »

The Square mobile payment system seems to available for a few platforms now. It was just recently added to the App Store and made available for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad. And while checking around the Square website for more information I noticed that there was an app available for Android as well. more »

Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter, has unveiled the company website for Square. Square is a mobile phone payment service which essentially means that you attach this thing to your phone via the headphone and microphone jacks, and you can make or receive credit card payments over the phone. The jacks provide the power the more »

PMP (personal media players) are becoming increasingly popular for their versatility and array of features, but less so for their often over exuberant price tag. So when the new Mintpad from mintpass was unveiled (after a long enough delay for us to wonder where it had gone) for a reported price of around $160 people were instantly interested.

Not only does the price tag attract attention, but the interesting shape and design also draws eyes. Looking like a modern electronic version of a Post-it, it it operated by stylus which instantly creates attractions and problems. But beside that, on the physical side it is incredibly competitive, with a small sleek design that looks suspiciously like a blend between the Nintendo DS and a square Apple iPod Touch.