> Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC), a leading vendor of embedded processors and network processors, has joined the Wi-Fi Alliance. Story.
> Calypso Wireless has completed the acquisition of Sleipner, a Milan-based company developing software for wireless handheld devices. Press release.
> Navizon transforms cell phones and WiFi devices into a GPS device. Story.
> Municipal police in Ulster County to go WiFi. Story.
> ETRI, Korea's leading IT research institute, successfully transmitted a video clip of a camcorder to digital TV in real time utilizing wireless 1394 technology based on UMB. Story.
> Brunswick, Maine, to offer free WiFi in downtown area. Story.
And finally...Google has made the cut: It is among the five finalists for San Francisco's muni-WiFi scheme. The other four: EarthLink, Hewlett-Packard, MetroFi, and Skytel/MCI. Report.