Bryce 5 redraws the OS X landscape

Bryce 5, the OS X native version of the 3D landscaping and animation application, will be released in July. Corel bought Bryce from Metacreations last year and has added several new features to the software in addition to carbonising it for OS X. Most significantly, Bryce can now render across a network of computers, with no limit on the number of machines that can share the load. ...more

YouTube moves to US mobile phones

Verizon Wireless, the US telco, has announced that it will deliver selected video clips from YouTube to mobile phones starting in December. It is a bid to increase subscriptions to the company's mobile media service. YouTube, the leading online video sharing site which was bought by Google earlier this month, said it hopes to expand beyond computers to phones. ...more

Sony squashes the Walkman Bean

Just six months after unveiling its rival to the iPod shuffle, Sony has ceased production of the Walkman Bean. Despite, or perhaps because of, its stand-out design, plus a staggering 50-hour battery life, the Bean was unable to make an impression on the shuffle's market share, which by all accounts has risen in the six months since the Bean's release. Sony has also has problems with the way its Connect software works with its players - not wholly surprising since until recently software and hardware were developed by different parts of the company. ...more

Not in my .eu

The European Commission asks for advice on how to protect the .eu top level domain from cyber-squatters. As part of its Interactive Policy Making initiative, the EC is seeking the views of those who have experienced the problems of trying to wrangle domain names from those that have registered them without any connection or legitimate interest. ...more

Ofcom proposes new spectrum of regulation

Ofcom has set out its proposals to free up the radio spectrum in the UK with the aim of allowing the market to decide the best use for radio frequencies. Traditionally, the UK's radio spectrum has been centrally managed with some set aside for military use, some for radio, TV, etc. Today 95 per cent of Britain's radio spectrum is still managed this way with only small amount set aside as the unlicenced 'spectrum commons'. ...more