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Monday, March 15, 2010

Please help us gather important data on future trends in access control and card solutions. In just ten minutes, you can have input into a data set that will help both our editorial team and the security industry to better meet your future needs. Aggregate results will be presented in a future article online here and will be presented at the upcoming ISC West conference.

Three iPods will be awarded to respondents by random drawing at the close of the survey.

End user survey:
If you work for an organization that is a user or potential user of access control and card systems, please click here to take the End User Survey.

Industry/vendor survey:
If you work for an organization that supplies access control and card system products or services, please click here to take the Industry/Vendor Survey. [end] 

A new survey from Euro Kartensysteme shows that Germans are starting to embrace the idea of contactless and NFC payments.

Out of 1,040 Germans aged 18-59, 43% responded that they would like to make contactless payments if given the opportunity, of which 58% percent would make their payments with a debit card card, 41% with a credit card and 50% with an NFC phone.

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Florida-based Codebench has released IDSync, a software development kit that enables automated provisioning and deprovisioning of users and credentials into a supported physical access control system.

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A recent survey conducted by Wincor Nixdorf shows that a strong majority of French consumers are interested in using fingerprint scanning technology to secure transactions.

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Authentication and access provider DigitalPersona released the results of a survey that found more than half of retailers rely on passwords for point-of-sale system login in, even though they also have great concerns over passwords being shared and misused.

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United Arab Emirates (UAE) travelers prefer making payments via mobile rather than using cash or credit card, according to a recent survey commissioned by travel technology and transaction processor Amadeus.

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Idesco announced that it has updated and enhanced its DESCoder software package, offering security providers and end users alike more control over their contactless access control systems.

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