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In September last year, Microsoft kicked off the Bing Maps v7 Module CodePlex Project, aimed specifically at creating one place where all developers could find and even share useful modules to enhance the capabilities of Bing Maps V7 API.
Ten modules have been submitted to the project to date, but there are some ot... |
28 January 2012
05:12 GMT |
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Microsoft is killing off the Bing Maps Token Service on March 30, 2012, and is reminding customers that they should move to Bing Maps Keys before that. Bing Maps Platform customers who want to ensure that their applications will be able to access the Platform past that day should move to Bing Maps Keys in due time.... |
25 January 2012
06:38 GMT |
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Following the unveiling of the Beta for the Bing Maps WPF control in August last year, Microsoft has made available for download the official release of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Control 1.0. The software developer tools that Microsoft has just published on its website are meant to enable the building of... |
13 January 2012
10:17 GMT |
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Microsoft is playing second fiddle to Google in several areas, online maps being one of them. But, as everywhere else, Microsoft is working on improving the service, in the latest update Bing Maps has improved the routing engine quite a lot, it's twice as fast as before in some cases."I can tell you that we&rsqu... |
6 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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The latest Steven Spielberg film, War Horse, has hit theaters in the United States and is expected to kick off in Europe in January.
The film’s action takes place during the World War I and aims at offering the story of a horse’s journey to the battlefields of Flanders.
To promote it, Shropshire-based ... |
28 December 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Remember those European countries you always wanted to visit but didn’t have the chance so far? They can all come to your Windows 7 PC’s desktop courtesy of a new theme, Bing Maps Aerial Imagery theme: Europe.
It won’t compare to visiting these countries, but will certainly offer you a new perspec... |
20 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Bing Maps is constantly evolving, and the latest collection of updates introduced by Microsoft is designed to enhance the user experience and provide developers with more functionality. As far as users are concerned, Bing Maps’ sharing capabilities have been improved considerably. Dan Polivy, senior program... |
10 November 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Unveiled last month at IFA 2011, in Berlin, Acer Allegro has just received a price tag and release date.Also known as Acer W4, the Allegro is expected to hit shelves in Europe this holiday season, presumably before Christmas, for 299 EUR (about $408).We stumbled upon Acer W4 while attending at IFA 2011 trade fair and... |
11 October 2011
05:53 GMT |
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Navigating airports is now easier thanks to a new Bing Maps update, since Microsoft has mapped a range of locations, making them available to all users via its search / decision engine.
The Redmond company was already offering popular venue maps for Bing Maps, and airport maps are just the latest addition, revea... |
30 September 2011
02:57 GMT |
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The newly launched Bing Maps v7 Module Project available on CodePlex is designed to streamline development tasks related to the Bing Maps V7 map control, and to save devs time by simplifying access to reusable code. With the Bing Maps V7 map control set up to support a modular framework, the new CodePlex project com... |
26 August 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Developers preferring to work with managed code libraries and leveraging Windows Presentation Foundation are no longer limited to using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control or the Bing Maps AJAX Control v7 in a web control for their projects involving Bing Maps. This because Microsoft has put together a Bing Maps WPF C... |
24 August 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated the Bing Maps Account Center as well as the Bing Maps REST Services and is also providing refreshed documentation to developers. In addition to expanding the Bing Maps Account Center capabilities, the software giant has also worked to enhance the performance of the service. Moreover, it’s... |
27 July 2011
08:01 GMT |
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A map style update was introduced to Bing Maps this month, and Microsoft published a PDF document designed to let customers get insight into the changes it rolled out to its mapping, location and search platform. “A Guide to Bing Maps July 2011 Map Style Update” is available for download from the softwar... |
13 July 2011
09:32 GMT |
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Microsoft has introduced a facelift to Bing Maps, with the most recent redesign of the mapping, location and search platform now live to users worldwide. (switch to classic Bing Maps and not to the Silverlight version in order to see the new design)According to Dan Polivy, Senior Program Manager, Bing Maps, the soft... |
12 July 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Bing Maps is continually evolving thanks to an ambitious endeavor from Microsoft designed to provide an unmatched user experience for its mapping platform through consistent and current high-resolution imagery. The Bing Maps Global Ortho imagery program has been in full swing for over a year now, since spring 2010, ... |
28 June 2011
07:11 GMT |
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An application on Bing Maps allows users to view in great detail the devastation caused by the deadly tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri on May 22nd, 2011. The imagery used by Microsoft comes from one of the companies that the software giant has already been working with for its mapping platform, Surdex. With the Jo... |
9 June 2011
06:48 GMT |
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With the latest infusion of technology into Bing Maps, Streetside has taken immersive experiences to a new level, save for actually walking down to specific locations covered by the mapping platform. The update introduced to Bing Maps Streetside enhances navigation, with Microsoft using collection of images seamless... |
1 June 2011
05:39 GMT |
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A few days after it was officially introduced by Verizon, the HTC Trophy is making the round-up of all major retailers in the United States.
The last on the retailers list is Newegg, which is now selling the Trophy for just $99 with a new two-year Verizon agreement.
That's about $50 cheaper than the price ... |
31 May 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Microsoft just kicked up a notch the resources available to developers building projects designed to integrate Bing Maps with the release of the Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0 Interactive SDK.This new interactive software development kit for AJAX Control 7.0 is designed to be leveraged in conjunction with the Bing Maps ... |
10 May 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's latest mobile operating system release, is expected to receive some very appealing new features with a new flavor of Bing, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.
In the latest Windows Phone Dev Podcast, Travis and Ryan Lowdermilk announced some of these great new feat... |
9 May 2011
02:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available a new Bing Maps software development kit for developers that are building projects on top of Apple iOS. The Bing Maps iOS SDK can be downloaded from the Redmond company’s Download Center, where it’s offered free of charge. “This new SDK gives developers a set of Object... |
6 May 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Today, during the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, FL, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion took everyone by surprise when announcing the fact that BlackBerry smartphones and the new BlackBerry PlayBook would feature Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine.At the said event, RIM’s C... |
3 May 2011
10:45 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA has just announced that it will offer the HTC HD7 for free with a new two-year agreement or with a new line added.
Although the announcement was made via Twitter, the new offer is real and, as the carrier mentions, it's time limited.
T-Mobile customers looking for a bargain can get the HD7 f... |
27 April 2011
04:27 GMT |
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An open-source Bing Maps SDK for Android has been released on Codeplex, coming from InKnowledge and aimed at offering developers the possibility to benefit from map controls in their Android applications. The new SDK includes a series of libraries and assets that were meant to offer app builders the possibility to c... |
1 April 2011
07:17 GMT |
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Microsoft has updated the resources made available to customers still leveraging Multimap in order to streamline the migration to Bing Maps. The Redmond company acquired Multimap.com, a UK-based mapping and location-based services provider back in 2007, and worked to transition users and developers over to its own pl... |
22 March 2011
07:56 GMT |
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Images and video of the recent natural disaster in Japan are abundant on the web, but to truly get a perspective over the devastation that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami caused, users can head over to Bing Maps.
“Bing created a new, high-quality map tool to help relief agencies and others navigate thr... |
21 March 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0 allows developers to deliver as much as 300% more performance for their projects compared to the previous set of reference topics delivered for version 6.3 of the Bing Maps AJAX Control. At the start of this month, a number of developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion sat down to dis... |
7 March 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Four new Joomla extensions are now available allowing customers that leverage the CMS to seamlessly integrate various Microsoft technologies into their projects. The Redmond company provided Schakra and MindTree with the necessary funding for them to put together the following Joomla extensions: Bing Maps, Windows L... |
15 February 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Queensland's capital in Australia is the scene of the most catastrophic floods since 1974, with 12 people already reported dead and another 67 missing. While images and videos of the natural disaster along the Brisbane River have made it across the world, Bing Maps offers a better way to get a full perspective ... |
12 January 2011
04:03 GMT |
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Bing Maps users will be able to enjoy fresh visual details and new features when leveraging Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform. At the start of August 2010, the Redmond company introduced an overhaul to Bing Maps’ UI, and spent the last few months perfecting the aesthetics. On December 15... |
16 December 2010
08:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced a new step in the evolution of its mapping, search and location platform, involving a Bing Maps redesign, changes to existing features as well as the release of a new AJAX control.Users already familiar with Bing Maps will notice modifications related to the left hand side panel. According to... |
19 November 2010
07:28 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7 features a special notifications system that is supposed to supplement the lack of full-blown multitasking. Microsoft's current approach at multitasking is intended to improve battery life, as it only keeps a few pre-defined apps resident in the smartphone's memory.Even though this system is... |
3 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Bing for Mobile BlackBerry application has just gotten better, with a nice range of enhancements included in a new release that was announced on the Bing Community blogs today. According to the announcement, the new software solution comes with the option of accessing Bing Maps through simply pressing the Bing Maps ... |
23 September 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Recently, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced the availability of a new solution for developers of applications for mobile phones and, implicitly, for the users of these handsets, namely Bing Maps. The company has announced the introduction of Bing Maps as the default map control solution in the new Win... |
18 September 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Bing Maps added transit guidance to its directions options, for every one of you Eco-friendly public transportation users out there!So now, you can continue taking the bus, the subway or whatever local rail you want, without risking of getting in the middle of nowhere, because you can turn to Bing Maps and establish ... |
17 September 2010
03:31 GMT |
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With Windows Phone 7 announced as released to manufacturing, all that remains to be seen is when the first handsets to run under it would make it to shelves but, until that would happen, a quick look at some of the platform's features is always welcomed. We already had the chance to learn various details on Mic... |
3 September 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Microsoft has crowned the King of Bing Maps, essentially announcing the winner of a competition that the company debuted in mid-June 2010. The contest was designed to help spread the world of the new development resources available for Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform.At the same time, the chal... |
23 August 2010
06:37 GMT |
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Microsoft has been working to make it possible for Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone 7 to play nice with Bing Maps. Case in point: Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst. The Redmond company announced no less than 50 gaming titles for the next generation of its Windows Mobile platform earlier this week, at Gamescom 2010, the ... |
19 August 2010
06:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has added geotagging capabilities to one of the components of the next generation of Windows Live Essentials, namely Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 (Wave 4).The latest development milestone of Windows Live Photo Gallery shipped with Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Build 15.4.3001.0809 is designed to allow u... |
18 August 2010
07:21 GMT |
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Users of Bing Maps can now play a Coin Search game via a new application that is now live in the Bing Map App gallery. Bing Maps is a platform after all, and Coin Search comes to prove that there are no limits to what developers can build leveraging Microsoft’ mapping, search and location platform. Fact is tha... |
11 August 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Microsoft’ search/decision engine is advancing constantly to the next level, most recently through the delivery of the summer update, but additional Cloud offerings under the Bing brand are also being upgraded as a part of the overall evolution. Case in point: Bing Maps, which now features an overhauled map exp... |
4 August 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Mapnik is the latest option added to Bing Maps, on top of Road, Aerial, Bird’s Eye, and Dynamic, for viewing content. This is in fact the OpenStreetMap mode which has been introduced to Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform, as the Redmond company unveiled a new layer and App for the gallery. ... |
3 August 2010
07:16 GMT |
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Open Street Map has been on a roll lately. A big partnership with AOL’s MapQuest has only been announced and now Bing joins the party as well. Data from Open Street Map will now be available as a separate layer in Bing Maps offering an alternative to the regular mapping data Microsoft provides with the help of ... |
3 August 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Eye on Earth, a project designed to allow Europeans to literally keep an eye on various sites across the continent and monitor important environmental data, has evolved, now integrating the company’s mapping, search, and location platform, closer than ever. Eye on Earth will turn two years old... |
20 July 2010
08:05 GMT |
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There are a lot of ways of viewing a location in Google Maps, the plain map view, the satellite view, Street View and so on, and now you can add another to the list, aerial view. Google calls it 45 degree imagery, and it’s easy to see why, believe it or not, the perspective is at 45 degrees. The new layer is on... |
10 July 2010
04:45 GMT |
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The greatest cycling competition, the Tour de France, just got underway yesterday and lovers of the sport have every reason to be excited. For the next 21 days, the world’s best riders will battle it out for the greatest honor in cycling, to be the winner of the Tour de France. A lot of people will be camping o... |
5 July 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Bing Maps is gaining more and more popularity with Internet users lately, the platform being constantly enhanced with new functionalities. The latest addition, which was released to the public on Monday, June 14, is WeatherBug for Bing Maps App, developed by a prominent provider of extensive weather services and crea... |
15 June 2010
01:47 GMT |
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A new application now live in the Bing Maps Gallery meshes together Microsoft’s online mapping, location and search tool with Facebook. The My Friends application for Bing Maps is designed to tap the user’s Facebook account in order to get information from the social network. According to Chris Pendleton,... |
14 June 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Users that want an easy way to get an overall perspective on the evolution of the 2010 FIFA World Cup can now turn to Bing Maps. Microsoft’s online mapping, location and search platform now features an application designed to let football/soccer fans easily explore World Cup activity. The World Cup map app on B... |
14 June 2010
04:42 GMT |
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