September 8, 2010 - 5:12am
A new mobile POS acceptance app from CreditCall, CardEase Mobile, is now providing fully secured Chip & PIN (EMV) transactions on BlackBerry and other smartphones.
The app is to be available since this fall.
It works in the following way: when the card is read and the user’s PIN entered on a separate Bluetooth-linked PIN Pad that is paired to the smartphone.
The data is encrypted while in transit and while on the smartphone, then sent over a wireless network to authorize the transaction.