Returning triumphant from two weeks of sun, sangria, the Sun, sausage sandwiches, Stella and just about everything else that Spain has to offer, the monkeys were disappointed to realise that the Insider carried on without them. And worse yet, it got on just fine.

"What about us?" they screeched and hollered, while their teeth and claws tore at our pale, vitamin-starved bodies, “Don't you appreciate us being in the office?"

Well, no. Of course we don't. Only a lunatic, or Keith Harris and Orville, could ever see the plusses of living with simians. And Chuckles, although rather aggressive, has never ganged up on anyone and attempted to "turn them off and back on again".

Still, it’s a sacrifice that we are begrudgingly happy to make. Not least of all because it keeps the monkeys off the street. After all, if they weren't here they might breach your security systems, mess about on your furniture and generally prevent you from reading this – the IT Week Insider.

News:
BT backs free Wi-Fi access
British Telecom has announced a tie up with Wi-Fi access provider Fon, which will give its customers access to over 190,000 hotspots across the globe. Wow. Soon nerds with laptops will be as ubiquitous around the planet as McDonalds “restaurants”, and those blokes that sell fake watches.

More news:
Momentum builds behind online office applications
Google, Microsoft and Adobe have all made movements in the online/offline office productivity applications market this week. This means that soon you won't even need a computer to put that fascinating PowerPoint presentation together. One day you will get a promotion, and employ someone else to do it for you. They might use one of these online things. We can't be sure.

This is also news:
Asian domain up for grabs
Next Tuesday the domain you have all been waiting for - nope, not .geek, .britney or .starwars – but .asia will be launched. It might not be the be-all and end-all of your business plans, but we still expect you to aggressively register it. Grrrrrr.

Comment:
Kewney: How I explained the microcomputer industry to Ned Sherrin
Ah Guy Kewney, IT Week's own Zelig. This week Guy tells us why, while surrounded by PR girls in little black dresses, he decided to talk to Ned Sherrin about microcomputers.

IT Week Podcast
Audio analysis of a new set of devices from HTC. This week's Deserted Island Diskettes was cancelled due to lack of interest.

IT Week Labs blog
Someone fed the Labs people after midnight this week. Never a good idea, especially when the food in question is spicy.

Green Business News
This post will automatically tut at you if you print the email off and don't offset it by planting a small tree.

Lem Bingley blog
Lem has been wanging on about banking all week this week. Well, he is on the internet a lot.