Policy Gaps Impeding RFID Government Adoption > November 23, 2004">The 172 government IT executives participating in the online survey revealed that 31% of their annual IT budgets are directed toward IT innovation, including new initiatives such as RFID adoption, with the rest spent on purchasing commodity IT products and managing and maintaining existing systems." />
Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Survey Reveals Government Policy Gaps

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

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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CYBRA Corporation released the findings of its latest customer survey of RFID trends and results reflect an industry trend towards the increasing adoption of RFID technology.

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New research from the University of Arkansas reveals that apparel suppliers can gain from the use of RFID, particularly in the area of inventory accuracy.

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Entrust Inc. has made enhancements to its Entrust Discovery digital certificate product by expanding search capabilities for digital certificates residing within Microsoft’s Cryptographic APIs and adding more than 25 basic or custom policy field alerts to ease certificate management.

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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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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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