Pinnacle Supports Coinstar Prepaid Cards (CSP)

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Pinnacle Corp. said that Pinnacle’s Palm POS now provides integrated support for Coinstar’s Pay As You Go product suite. Retailers can now have the added convenience of selling, activating, processing payments and checking current balances of prepaid cards offered by Coinstar E-Payment Services all from the point of sale.

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Pinnacle Partners with Bit9 – Deal intended to help retailers address PCI compliance standards (CSP)

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Pinnacle Corp. has forged a partnership with Bit9 Inc. to help retail customers meet the stringent policies required by the Payment Card Industry ‘s (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). The partnership includes the OEM distribution of the Bit9 Parity enterprise application whitelisting solution with Pinnacle ‘s Palm POS product line. Bit9 Parity will provide a heightened level of security and control for Pinnacle retail customers.

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Tech on Display (CSP)

GRAPEVINE, Texas — With enterprise systems, networking advances and new kiosk enhancements among the many developments at the NACStech trade-show floor, retailers with a growing technological savvy had plenty to review at last week ‘s three-day conference.

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NACStech-nicalities (CSP)

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Suppliers on the trade-show floor of the 13th annual NACStech conference pointed to compliance with Visa and MasterCard standards, as well as more sophisticated technological advances as key discussion points this year.

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Pinnacle Exec Expands Responsibilities (CSP)

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Pinnacle Corp. has announced the promotion of Drew Mize to vice president of product management and marketing. Based at the Arlington, Texas, headquarters, Mize came to Pinnacle as vice president of retail solutions, overseeing the strategic positioning, planning and product management areas of Pinnacle’s Retail Solutions group.

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Flash Floods Expands Loyalty Program (CSP)

WAYCROSS, Ga. — Flash Floods Inc. is expanding its Rewards in a Flash consumer loyalty program. The retailer will add two more features to its existing Pinnacle Corp.-supplied Loyalink loyalty program that will drive new payment options for consumers, with all functions supported from their existing loyalty card.   Read More

Tech Notes (CSP)

ATLANTA — Compliance to payment-card industry (PCI) standards drove many of the innovations seen on the trade-show floor at this month’s NACS convention, with upgraded in-pump payment systems, networks and point-of-sale (POS) devices being equipped to meet the challenge.

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