No, it isn't a new way to deliver ice cream: the Google Street View tricycle, developed for use in the UK but first seen in Genoa, Italy and on US campuses, will be arriving in Britain this summer. Bosses at the internet giant are bringing in the bikes to gain access to places that cars can’t reach such as castles, coastal paths and, we imagine, cycle paths.

Michael Jackson, censorship, digital newspapers and more caught our eye on this heating up day at weirdandbeard, the smell of newly-laid tarmac affecting our synapses...

Twitter apps, holographic mail cleverness, legal film streaming and more usefulness from Google caught our eye this morning in the weirdandbeard dugout. It's taken longer than usual to assemble this round up thanks to gremilns eating our InterWeb feed, but enjoy...

Sridhar Vembu, CEO of online applications company ZOHO, muses on how Microsoft, no matter how hard it tries with the release of some pretty good software, is still being out manouvered by Google, Apple and its other rivals...

Could the BBC's iPlayer go global? Various media have picked up on a report in Friday's Daily Telegraph that Google, owners of YouTube, is said to be in talks about the possibility of an international version of the popular catch-up TV service.

The European Commission has confirmed that it is to launch an inquiry into the digitalisation of millions of books by Google, without the permission of their rights holders, to see whether the European Union should protect authors and publishers.

Photonic disruptors, online music charges, gobal warming and Street View - and the news that our iPhone app to work out our reident designer's rate of apple consumption wouldn't make us any money - were all news items that got caught in our datanet today at weirdandbeard...

Social app tools for Twitter and from Google, censorship, new Kindles and technophobia all caught our attention post-Bank Holiday at weirdandbeard...

Here's today's weirdandbeard round up of news found whilst scurrying through the Internet trying to avoid media-hyped stories about swine flu, exciting stuff as NASA gets closer to taking humans back to the moon, electronic paper moves a step closer to reality and more...

iphone developments, new Firefox plug-ins, the death of Facebook and a way Twitter may finally be useful are all things that caught our attention today at WeirdandBeard...