You are seriously lucky to be getting any kind of Insider at all this week.
Thanks to a monkey with a very empty stomach, the over-zealous spraying of some new Eastern European screen cleaner, and a mass hallucination, we have very few monitors left.
Anyway, eventually the monkey had stopped 'seeing things', so we got him to collate all this news, package it in a handy to read email format and send it out to you.
The monkey in question was last seen clutching a hammer and wandering off into the direction of our sister title Computing magazine, but that is no concern of ours.
Big news
Google reaches for the stars
Google Earth has been updated this week. Now the geospatial tool will let you
get all spacial, adding the ability to zoom away from this blue planet of ours
and out into deep space. Google Earth + Sky is aimed at bedroom enthusiasts and
people that like to watch. So, a natural extension of all its other internet
offerings then.
More news
Mobile operator Three is set to introduce a new mobile broadband service for both businesses and consumers, priced from just £10 per month. Subscribers can choose from three tariffs offering data allowances of 1GB, 3GB or 7GB for £10, £15 or £25 per month respectively, with any traffic beyond the allowance charged at 10p per megabyte. So now you have no excuses for not being on Facebook all day long.
Connected Britain committed to new
technologies
According to Ofcom, more and more Britons are embracing new communications tools
such as mobile phones and the internet while moving further and further away
from traditional mediums like television and landline phones. Wow. What's next?
The news that a polar bear's armpit is warmer than the tip of its tail?
Podcast:
This week Phil Muncaster talks to David Neal about how Google is reaching for
the stars, and putting them into the hands of bedroom enthusiasts.
Business Green blog
BAE has developed a hybrid tank, apparently. Now before you imagine some sort of
Transformers-style tank/robot remember that this is the green blog, so we are
probably talking about hybrid engines. Which is something of a shame.
Lem Bingley blog
Lem Bingley on why you should never order goods online. We really need to try
and keep this sorta stuff away from the advertisers.
Sneak blog
Sneak on why Nokia thinks you should never send a text while in the toilet, and
why there is a Facebook for trained killers.
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