Gemalto’s Protiva Cloud Confirm is compatible with HP CloudSystem under the HP Helion cloud portfolio; FIME extended its ISO quality assurance accreditation under ISO17025; the Open Standard for Public Transport Alliance revealed that São Paulo Transporte and Swiss Post Solutions will utilize its CIPURSE standard; and Ram Shriram, a founding board member of Google and former executive at Amazon.com, has joined strong authentication specialist Yubico

Bluetooth low energy has been included in the majority of smart phones for the past couple of years and is emerging as a complement or even replacement to NFC, WiFi, and bar code technologies.

MorphoTrak partnered with Identity One to deliver a time & attendance and biometric access control system to a North American freight railroad company; HID Global and Proxama, created a solution enabling deployment of secure mobile web-based coupon and loyalty schemes; and Gemalto launched Sealys Color in Polycarbonate, a system that enables high-quality color photographs to be permanently embedded into polycarbonate documents such as IDs, driving licenses and passports.

CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS AMERICA announced the winners of the first SESAMES America awards. Winners were awarded in identity, card manufacturing and emerging payments.

AIRSHOP enables retailers to launch their own self-branded mobile wallets for fast and advanced ordering, payment, loyalty, geo-location services and couponing. It has been deployed for retailers including KFC, Carrefour City, G20, Dia and many more.

The Tribeca Film Fest uses HID’s NFC tags for promotion; Fujitsu releases palm vein scanner for physical access; Intercede’s latest MyID can issue and manage trusted identities for machines; New PreCheck enrollment centers opened; Oberthur announced the issuance of 5 million ePassports to Uzbek citizens.

Janrain unveils the Mobile Registration Solution; NexID Biometrics receives a series of funding grants; CA Technologies announced the availability of CA Identity Suite, and codeREADr released “Tap to Verify,” a product that uses NFC tags to authenticate a worker’s physical presence.