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Payment Gateway

A combination of software and hardware that provides an interface to the bank card processing network.

PNG

PNG is an image file format popular on the Web and elsewhere. It is intended as a replacement for the GIF image format. PNG stands recursively for “PNG’s Not GIF” but is commonly referred to as “Portable Network Graphics”. PNG is not affected by software patents. Its compression algorithm is slightly better than GIF, and it supports many more image file formats including 24-bit color and alpha (variable transparency) channels. With the exception of alpha channels, PNG is well-supported in recent graphics software and Web browsers.