MANHASSET, N.Y. — Intel Corp.’s internal operations in Saudi Arabia has deployed WiMAX broadband technology to support its own communication needs in that nation.

The move is expected to help propel WiMAX in Saudi Arabia as well as the rest of the Middle East, according to the Mena Report, a Middle Eastern

Perhaps the biggest threat to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and the portable music player industry is a device already nestling in a billion pockets: the mobile phone.
 
Sales of cellphones that can store and play back music are climbing, raising hopes among handset producers like Sony Ericsson (6758.T) (ERICb.ST) and

Recent reports that China is creating its own version of the Internet are being denied by the country's China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). In news reports from Beijing, the CNNIC has clarified that there is no separate Chinese Internet in the works, and no new top-level domains.
 
The misunderstanding

Another bullying Bagle worm appeared Friday, security companies warned, although this one threatens to bring on the lawyers, not the police.
Bagle.do, said U.K.-based Sophos, spreads in e-mails with subject lines such as "Call to your lawer [sic] immidiately [sic]" and "Lawsuit against you." The text of the worm-carrying message varies, but

Earthcomber LLC today introduced a free service that provides maps and directions on Windows Mobile-based PDAs and smart phones.
 
The service, which has been available on Palm's mobile platform, is built around GPS-enabled maps for U.S. territories. Mobile device users can specify directions for restaurants, hotels, and automatic teller machines

Amax Information Technologies is expanding its custom- built storage business, adding new NAS technology it promises will be easy for small business VARs to configure as well as high-end storage servers for larger customers.

The Fremont, Calif.-based distributor and custom systems builder actually has three product lines in the works. A small

LONDON — NEC Corporation has developed a signal-reshaping chip that it plans to deploy in a 40 Gbit/s wavelength division multiplexing transmission system it is readying.

The company will outline details of the device at next week’s Optical Fibre Communications (OFC) conference in Anaheim, California.

NEC researchers say the LSI

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into online music pricing by major record labels, the Reuters news agency reported Friday, citing unnamed sources.
 
DOJ investigators are looking at whether the labels may have colluded to set prices, the report says.

Some subpoenas may have been

As promised, Netopia has released an update to its remote control software Timbuktu Pro that enables it to run natively on Intel-based Macs. The Universal Binary update is free for registered 8.x users. New Timbuktu Pro licenses start at $94.95.
 
Timbuktu Pro enables users to remotely view and control other

U.K. wireless giant Virgin Mobile dodged a licensing bullet and slashed server configuration times with new automation software that it plans to extend to the firm's back-end storage.

Virgin Mobile, which serves around 5 million U.K. customers, deployed BladeLogic's Operations Manager at the start of last year. It was prompted by an urgent