I’m sick of all of the antitrust laws surrounding Microsoft. So they have a corner in a market or two. That’s an understatement, but, even so. They also created the operating system used by most of the world. If they don’t want to make their OS compatible or convenient to use with certain Google applications, that should be their perogative.

In a recent court ruling, Microsoft will not be forced to allow users to disable the default built in Windows Desktop Search in the new Windows Vista to allow users to use Google Desktop Search instead. Boo hoo Google. Maybe if you guys go and make your own OS you can build your own software into it. Microsoft is doing nothing more than smart business. Microsoft is anti-Google so why would they make their software Google friendly? It’s annoying, sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that Google has no right to demand that Microsoft make accomodations for them. That’s like crashing somebody’s party unwanted and expecting them to serve you drinks.

Nonetheless, the courts have ruled in Google’s favor due to the antitrust laws and agreements that Microsoft has apparently agreed to.

Source: Yahoo

I was just checking out Google Maps today and they now have a feature where on some streets you can actually view street level images just like you were driving. BuzzFeed had a funny list of odd things caught on camera as the Google van drove by. Google drove a van with a 360 degree camera on top to capture millions of images in California.

Check out their list of funny finds here.

To go straight to Google Maps and take the Google Van for a test drive click here. You can rotate the camera to any angle too so have fun following the roads and see if you can find anything interesting!

Today Nintendo launched the Wii news channel, an online interactive news channel for it’s Online24 service available to all Wii game consoles with an internet connection.  Essentially, the channel acts as an interactive news source where users can browse a digital globe, browsing different regions of the world in search of stories originating from specific locals.  This seems kind of pointless, yet kind of neat and fun.  Is there anything else we should be making note of here?

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Google Apps for domains have been around for a while now, but Google has continued to improve these features dramatically. Their latest improvement was the recent addition of the “Custom URL” locations that allow you to use your own domain name for Google Apps (i.e. mail.yourdomain.com, calendar.yourdomain.com).

Google has just partnered with both GoDaddy.com and eNom to provide internet users with convenient domain registrations for use with their Google Apps. It’s important to note that you are not forced to use GD or eNom, which would be ridiculous, but both of these are solid domain registrars and should suit your needs accordingly.

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