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States Ask Banks, Credit Card Companies To Hurry Up With The Chip & PIN Cards Already

States Ask Banks, Credit Card Companies To Hurry Up With The Chip & PIN Cards Already

The deadline has come and gone for most retailers to install new microchip-scanning credit card readers in stores, but many stores are still waiting to introduce the devices because a lot of banks and credit card issuers have yet to issue the more secure cards to customers. In the hope of resolving this stalemate, attorneys general for eight states and the District of Columbia have called on the nation’s biggest banks and card networks to start pressing the new plastic ASAP. [More]

Aereo: It’s Fine By Us If The Networks Want To Take Us Before The Supreme Court

Aereo: It’s Fine By Us If The Networks Want To Take Us Before The Supreme Court

You know those arguments where you’re certain you’re right, so when the other person says “Well, let’s just go look up the answer,” you are more than happy to oblige? That appears to be the attitude of streaming video startup Aereo, which today said it will not try to stop the broadcast networks from taking their complaint to the Supreme Court. [More]