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Bing Maps China Grows with New Features

Microsoft continues to push forward with efforts to expand its mapping, search and location platform. While Bing Maps, formerly Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps, is essentially a Cloud based application covering the entire world, the company does focus on specific markets more than on others. Case in point: Bing Ma...

20 November 2009
07:12 GMT

Take the New Moon Virtual Twilight Tour via Silverlight and Bing Maps

Leave your stakes and your silver bullets at home while visiting landmarks of the latest chapter in the Twilight saga to hit movie screens worldwide, but by all means make sure that you have Microsoft Silverlight in place. At the same time, knowing your way around Bing Maps wouldn’t hurt either. MSN Movies has ...

17 November 2009
07:36 GMT

Bing Maps Included into YellowPages.com’s Mobile Website

 Microsoft’s mapping, location, and search platform is an integral part of the experience offered to end users by YeallowPages.com, but the Redmond company and AT&T Interactive (the owner of the Yellow Pages.com website) have taken it one step further. In this regard, users that will access the mobile flav...

9 November 2009
05:26 GMT

Google and Bing Maps Get Updated Satellite Imagery

Online mapping services are becoming increasingly popular and useful and, as a result of that, more profitable for those running them. All the big players are present in the space, Google, of course, which started it all, but also Yahoo and Microsoft. They each have their advantages, but what most people don't r...

5 November 2009
11:26 GMT

Bing Maps Gets 9,460 Square Kilometer Imagery Update

Microsoft is moving forward with its tradition of releasing massive updates to its mapping, search and location platform. According to the Redmond company, the latest refresh to Bing Maps, formerly referred to as Virtual Earth, introduces an additional 9,460 square kilometers of imagery. Although Microsoft only offe...

4 November 2009
09:03 GMT

GeoDomainMap Powered by Bing Maps

Finding a connection between a certain location and a domain name is the task central to GeoDomainMap. Offered by GoDaddy, GeoDomainMap is a Cloud-based application designed to help customers discover, explore and buy domain names that are associated with certain locations in North America. This just in case you woul...

22 October 2009
07:31 GMT

Microsoft: Yes, We Launched a Bing Rocket

And indeed, Microsoft has launched a Bing rocket. Not the Redmond company itself, but rather DigitalGlobe, one of the software giant’s partners and supplier of satellite imagery for Bing Maps. The past week, DigitalGlobe’s Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California t...

16 October 2009
08:05 GMT

Geo-Enrich Websites with Bing Maps or Google Earth

iGeo is a geo-tagging service designed to take advantage of the Microsoft and Google mapping, search and location platforms. Set up to enrich online text on websites, iGeo can leverage either Google Earth or Bing Maps, in order to expand the content related to specific geographical locations with links to the associa...

17 September 2009
09:01 GMT

Microsoft Virtual Earth Server 2.0 Available

Microsoft’s on-premise variant of Bing Maps has evolved to the next level. At the start of this month, Vexcel Corporation, a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary, announced that version 2.0 of the Microsoft Virtual Earth Server is now available for customers. Essentially, with Microsoft Virtual Earth Servers, cust...

2 September 2009
06:24 GMT

Bing Maps Gets 101,486 Kilometers of New Imagery

Microsoft has made it a tradition to extend the new content available to end users via Bing Maps from month to month. In this context, August makes no exception to this rule, with the month bringing with it yet another refresh for the Redmond company’s mapping, search and location platform. For August 2009, Mic...

1 September 2009
09:59 GMT

Introducing the Bing Maps Mashup Challenge via ESRI (UK)

ESRI (UK) and Bing Maps have introduced a new contest designed to let developers build Geographic Information Systems mashups that bridge Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform with the ArcGIS Server. ESRI is ready to offer an Xbox system to the winner of the competition, but participation is limited...

1 September 2009
07:03 GMT

Bing Maps Integration Kit for PHP Available

The official label of the PHP Toolkit for Bing Maps Web Service might just be descriptive enough to give away the functionality. But if you haven’t figured it out from just the name, the toolkit is designed to allow developers building PHP websites to seamlessly integrate Bing Maps. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Ear...

17 August 2009
08:46 GMT

41 TB Bing Maps Update Brings New Imagery and Map Data

Microsoft introduced the second major update to Bing Maps since the Cloud mapping, search and location service was rebranded at the end of May 2009. The latest refresh to what used to be Live Search Maps (Virtual Earth) brings to the table no less than 41 Terabytes of new imagery and map data. Chris Pendleton, the Vi...

10 August 2009
07:50 GMT

Applications Parade on Bing Maps

Bing Maps, formerly Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth, is not limited at just a mapping, search and location service, it is also offering companies a Cloud platform designed to put their applications in a geographic perspective. One such example is Save Our Sounds, an initiative designed to invite users of Bing Maps to ...

24 June 2009
09:22 GMT

Bing Maps (Virtual Earth) the Evolution

How did Microsoft manage to get all the way to Bing Maps? As many of you already know, Bing Maps is the result of the rebranding of Live Search Maps. The start of June 2009 brought with it the death of Live Search, the search engine and the brand. In this context, Microsoft transitioned not only its search engine, bu...

19 June 2009
09:41 GMT

Bing Maps Eye on Earth – Water Watch Evolves

An initiative put together by Microsoft and the European Environment Agency (EEA) designed to monitor the water quality at bathing spots across Europe and share the information with users has evolved. The Redmond company informed that Eye on Earth – Water Watch had been updated with 2009 information revealing t...

19 June 2009
06:09 GMT

Bing Maps World Tour Live via Windows Azure

Bing Maps World Tour is a new tool introduced by Microsoft following the rebranding of Live Search Maps to Bing Maps and Virtual Earth to Bing Maps for Enterprise. The tool is designed to allow end users to keep up with the changes introduced to Microsoft’s mapping, location and search platform each month. The ...

9 June 2009
09:54 GMT

Virtual Earth 3D Is Dead, Download Bing Maps 3D

Virtual Earth 3D is dead, well, at least the brand is. Fact is that it was just a matter of time before Virtual Earth 3D followed in the footsteps of the Virtual Earth platform. With the advent of Bing, only properties, services and even platforms formerly associated with the now-defunct Live Search have been slowly ...

4 June 2009
06:08 GMT

Bing Maps, Formerly Virtual Earth, Gets New Blog

The evolution of Live Search to Bing is affecting the entire span of components that were intimately connected with the search engine. As Bing is slowly swallowing Live Search, Microsoft's latest rebranding exercise expands to all constituent elements. The past week, as Bing was starting to roll out, Microsoft r...

3 June 2009
05:15 GMT

Virtual Earth Gets Rebranded as Bing Maps for Enterprise

Microsoft is not only in the process of releasing a new search engine, but also of launching a new consumer brand: Bing. Because it is envisioned as the Redmond company's next-generation search engine, a service that will kill Live Search, Bing will also affect existing components associated with Microsoft searc...

29 May 2009
10:25 GMT


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