Right Back After the Break ; RADIO ++ THE BATTLE FOR AUDIENCES ++ Last Week's Rajar Figures Told Another Story of BBC Domination of the Airwaves. So Why Are Commercial Radio's Bosses so Bullish? Ian Burrell Hears Their Case
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By Ian Burrell  TWELVE days ago in The Play Room, a fashionable Soho cabaret club with charcoal-coloured walls and zebra-print furniture, the big shots of the commercial radio industry gathered beneath the chandeliers for a power summit.
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roundup Plus: Music promoter offers concert downloads...WS-I tackles Web services attachments...Newspaper sites take up paid search ads.
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Plus: Sony TV unit struggling...Nokia on upswing...Sun ekes out profit...Apple earnings sail past expectations.
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roundup Plus: Siebel moves toward self-repairing software...Monster says it could enter Japan by mid-2005...Novell to release Open Enterprise Server.
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Google buys a mapquest of its own. Also: Sharp takes us to the future of television in 3-D & hellip;.  PayPal finds a way to make amends for mistakes & hellip;. and more.
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roundup Plus: WS-I tackles Web services attachments...Newspaper sites take up paid search ads...Microsoft IPTV to woo Swiss test group.
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XM Satellite Radio buys broadcasting rights to major league games for 11 years. Also: Microsoft creates a watch complete with streaming information & hellip;. Kodak prepares for the transition to filmless photography & hellip;. and more.
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The Aqua Teen Hunger Force guerilla marketers caused chaos, but are they criminals? Plus: Mooninite "explosive" hits eBay (briefly). In Table of Malcontents.
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Internet radio gets ready for a fight after the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board quietly releases a retroactive rate hike that could mean financial disaster from music streamers. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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A month after its unpopular price hikes, the auction site seeks to smooth some ruffled business feathers. Also: Kuwait blocks radical websites to combat terrorism.... Google loses a legal round in France.... and more.
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roundup Plus: RIM touts BlackBerry with Wi-Fi...HP to sell Voltaire's InfiniBand switch...PC shipments up, but revenue less so, study says.
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Chairman Kevin Martin supports open spectrum access. The catch is that the spectrum auction rules being floated make it unlikely an open network could ever actually be built.
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roundup Plus: More colleges get cheap online music...Glitches hit some EarthLink-hosted sites...More money for fuel cells...Linux release features Windows support.
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Plus: Verizon sales rise, led by wireless growth...Motorola shares rise after profit beats estimates...Electronics sales push Sony to profit...CNET reports deeper loss.
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Fresno's airport is first to use a web-based wireless radar system to update flight information. Also: Ford announces just how strong a boost it will give Sirius & hellip;. Motorola gears up with a snowboarding jacket that does it all. & hellip;. and more.
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roundup Virgin introduces a tiny music player, and Dell could be ready to unveil its own "Pocket DJ." Also: In France, cell phone silence is golden.
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Hang the DJ marketing agency A startling claim lands on the desk of Vulture Central. Research from London-based marketing agency Frukt raises the verbless question, "Music radio dying?"â¦