What is a wireless credit card terminal?
Modern technology and, especially, the Internet have opened new horizons in every aspect of our lives. Few of us have not sampled the wonders of e-mail, the World Wide Web, or eBay. Now these same technologies are opening formerly closed doors for commerce using wireless technology. Wireless, in computer terminology, is the transmission of digital data between computerized devices, over short distances, using radio frequency energy. Home wireless networks use this technique as an alternative to the hub and Ethernet wire method of data transfer. Our cell phones and Blackberries do it by sending phone calls to a conveniently located cell tower for introduction in to the land-based phone system we’ve relied upon for decades. The Internet ‘hot spot’ is an establishment, area, or facility that has a general purpose Internet gateway provided for the use of the general public with wireless-equipped laptops and other computer devices. Now the retail world has joined the party with wireless cre
