What the papers say today, 21st January 2003

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk ITV bosses box clever over set-top giveaway http://www.guardian.co.uk/Media/broadcast/story/0,7493,878913,00.html Industry insider wins top job as media super regulator http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,879029,00.html They think it’s all over for NTL sport HTTP The Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk Ex-Digital users can keep boxes http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/01/21/cndigi21.xml&sSheet=/money/2003/01/21/ixcity.html Evening Standard http://www.thisislondon.co.uk Wallace out in shake-up at C&W http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid58117?source= The Independent http://news.independent.co.uk Cable & Wireless parts company with Wallace http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=371355 NTL’s Carter set to get top job at Ofcom

What the papers say today

The Financial Times(sub. required) Cable companies face new internet rules Music industry to step up anti-piracy fight Infineon chip divisions granted independence Symbian signs Taiwan licensing deal ITV Digital subscribers given set-top boxes Infineon optimistic as losses narrow sharply The Independent Higgs to unveil widest shake-up of boardrooms for a decade It was the IT wedding of the year. But will Martin Read make the marriage work? The Times Need

Yahoo enlists broadband to kick-start Europe

Some 2.2m people have signed up for premium services in the US. Yahoo is looking to launch premium services in Europe in the first half of 2003. However, some might argue that Europe could prove more of a quagmire for Yahoo than it thinks. To start with there are a host of different providers, from former state monopolies to cables firms, to start-up ISPs. Plus, many take ‘bundled’ packages of

“Wireless razors” come on stream

Radio Frequency Identity tags (RFID) are attached to packs of Gillette Mach3 razor blades. Gillette says it is trialling half a billion of the chips in the US and UK. The tags can tell how much stock there is of a particular product; where it is; when it goes out of date; whether it has been paid for and if it has been recycled after use.