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Microsoft is gearing up to introduce additional content to Virtual Earth. A new agreement inked with DigitalGlobe has provided the Redmond giant with access to in excess of 460 million kilometers of Earth imagery for integration into its online mapping, search and location platform. In this regard, Virtual Earth now ... |
8 October 2008
15:01 GMT |
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At the end of September, Microsoft made available a new version of Virtual Earth 3D, complete with a new 3D control. At the same time, with the evolution of Virtual Earth 3D and Live Search Maps, the Redmond giant also married its online mapping, location and search platform with the WorldWide Telescope project from ... |
7 October 2008
12:14 GMT |
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Microsoft is looking to attract 3D designers to Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth. Following the acquisition of Caligari, Microsoft made available for free trueSpace 7.6, a comprehensive toolset connecting the solutions directly with its mapping, imagery and search platform. In a move intended to boost the thre... |
30 September 2008
09:18 GMT |
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In accordance with the evolution of the Virtual Earth underlying mapping, location, and search platform, Microsoft has also delivered a major feature update to Live Search Maps, the consumer side of the service. According to Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist, Microsoft has introduced improvements ac... |
26 September 2008
07:58 GMT |
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An updated version of Virtual Earth 3D is available for download as of September 24, 2008. Virtual Earth 3D is a component of Microsoft's online mapping, location and search platform, designed to allow the building of three-dimensional environments on top of Live Search Maps. Simultaneously with the release of t... |
25 September 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is kicking Virtual Earth up a notch. The Redmond giant's mapping, location and search service has evolved to the next stage, bringing new components including the Virtual Earth Web Service and the Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist, Microsoft Live Search, indi... |
25 September 2008
08:33 GMT |
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Microsoft is the adept of massive double digit Terabytes update for its mapping, location and search platform. And the latest refresh introduced to Virtual Earth makes no exception to this rule. For September 2008, the Redmond giant delivered a massive 46 Terabytes update to Virtual Earth. In this regard, August 2008... |
18 September 2008
09:43 GMT |
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At the end of the past week, a new initiative from Microsoft Taiwan and Chunghwa Telecom went live under the name Live Pages. The label is designed to indicate a Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth version 1 release aimed exclusively at the Taiwanese market. The collaboration between the Redmond company's local d... |
1 September 2008
07:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is making headway with the deprecation process of older versions of Virtual Earth. According to Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth technical evangelist, come September 22, 2008, versions 3 and 4 of the platform will be permanently retired. At the same time, the Redmond giant is gearing up to serve automatic up... |
28 August 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Virtual Earth is no longer a platform limited to Microsoft's cloud. In this context, the Redmond giant announced that it is making VE content available outside of the service. Starting August 25, 2008, Virtual Earth UltraCam (proprietary) aerial photography can be licensed independently of the license for the VE... |
26 August 2008
06:09 GMT |
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While Virtual Earth continues to evolve in the cloud, Microsoft manages to remain anchored on the desktop. In this regard, the Redmond giant made available for download MapPoint 2009 and Streets and Trips 2009 at the end of the past week. Announced in mid-July 2008, trial versions for the two products have gone live ... |
25 August 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps are much more than just mapping, location and search services. Microsoft is in fact delivering a complete platform but, in this context, Rich Internet Applications are not the only thing that the Redmond company aims to attract. In fact, Live Search maps, and Virtual Earth are also exce... |
14 August 2008
13:00 GMT |
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Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth go well beyond the mapping, location and search capabilities, and the adjacent Oblique (Bird's Eye), Ortho, Aerial and satellite imagery which can very easily take center stage. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is touting Virtual Earth as a fully fledged cloud platform,... |
12 August 2008
09:15 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering a unique perspective behind its mapping, search and location service. An integral aspect of the infrastructure that contributes content, and ultimately permits the building and evolution of Virtual Earth, is a piece of photographic equipment that Microsoft produces itself, namely UltraCamX. Mark... |
8 August 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is permitting end users of Virtual Earth that are not happy with the content offered via the service to introduce patches with imagery. The Redmond company is constantly introducing double digit Terabytes imagery updates to Virtual Earth, but it is simply not enough, and entire areas of the world are covere... |
1 August 2008
10:41 GMT |
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Surf's up for Eye on Earth powered by Microsoft's Virtual Earth and SQL Server 2008. A joint initiative of the Redmond giant and the European Environment Agency, Eye on Earth - Water Watch, is designed to provide an online service set up to monitor the quality of bathing water across 27 European countries. ... |
31 July 2008
07:08 GMT |
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Microsoft Virtual Earth is continuously expanding; the territories added to the service are not limited to new data and imagery, but also to the expansion on third party applications and services. Case in point: the partnership inked by Microsoft with ESRI, making Virtual Earth a component of the ESRI's ArcGIS O... |
30 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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July 2008 represents yet another step further in the evolution of Microsoft Virtual Earth. Just over the past week, Microsoft added a new 14.3 terabyte (TB) update to Virtual Earth and expanded the team responsible for the service with the Photosynth project from Live Labs research. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Tec... |
28 July 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Despite the bitter rivalry between Apple, with OS X and Mac computers on one side, and Microsoft and OEMs with Windows and PCs, on the other, the Cupertino-based hardware company is little shy about parading the latest version of its iPhone running a Microsoft service in all its glory. The fact of the matter is just ... |
17 July 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Well, despite the upcoming availability of MapPoint 2009 and Streets & Trips 2009, users shouldn't hurry and dispense of Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist Microsoft, revealed that in the coming months, updates to MapPoint and Streets & Trips 2009 would be made av... |
15 July 2008
08:23 GMT |
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PlanetEye is a new website focused on delivering travelers with the right set of online planning tools designed to enable the searching, exploring and sharing of a plethora of destinations worldwide. Launched into Beta on July 9, 2008, PlanetEye makes use of Microsoft technology in order to permit users to plan their... |
10 July 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Virtual Earth is often the recipient of monster-size multi-Terabyte updates containing new imagery, be it Orthos, satellite or Bird's Eye. But at the same time, Virtual Earth is just a smaller piece of the puzzle for Microsoft, which offers a complex platform covering an array of aspects from mapping to location... |
4 July 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform is continually gaining popularity, not only from the perspective of increased audience as from additional heavyweight players on the online world ready to embrace it. The latest example in this context is Ask.com. Ask Maps, Business Search (City), Smart Answers (Web Search), an... |
2 July 2008
11:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a new double digit Terabytes update to Virtual Earth expanding yet again the content available to end users. The Redmond company has made a tradition of introducing heavyweight updates to its mapping, imaging, location data visualization and search platform, and the June release is just the lat... |
26 June 2008
07:10 GMT |
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If you just happen to have a 216 mega-pixel large format UltraCamX digital aerial camera lying around and gathering dust, then it's time to put it to good use. Microsoft is opening up Virtual Earth to third-party content, especially aerial photography. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist, indicat... |
24 June 2008
12:16 GMT |
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By all means, Virtual Earth is a work in progress. Illustrative of this are not only the constant multi-Terabytes imagery updates but also Virtual Earth 3D, which is still in Beta. Microsoft is still perfecting its three dimensional perspective via Virtual Earth, as Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist... |
24 June 2008
05:57 GMT |
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May 2008 marks yet another leap forward in the evolution of Microsoft's Virtual Earth. According to Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist, Microsoft introduced a massive 69.2 TB (Terabytes) update to its integrated mapping, imaging, search, and data visualization platform, as it is defined by the R... |
6 June 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Microsoft manufactures its own photographic equipment tailored specifically for the process of capturing imagery used in the Virtual Earth platform. UltraCamX is a 216 mega-pixel large format digital aerial camera and the main source of images for Virtual Earth 3D models. The Redmond company is constantly working to ... |
26 May 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Microsoft is building a pioneering environmental observatory together with the European Environment Agency, which will act as the foundation for the Global Observatory for Environmental Change, planned by the EEA. On May 14, 2008, Microsoft announced that it had inked a five-year alliance with EEA, destined to build ... |
14 May 2008
07:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded the level of support it is offering for what the company referred to as the entire digital content lifecycle. Creating new materials, management tasks and the distribution and delivery of content, requires specialized solutions, and Microsoft has the right tools to get the job done. At the NAB... |
15 April 2008
04:23 GMT |
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Live Maps and Virtual Earth have grown to a new stage in their evolution via an update Microsoft started implementing on April 10. The new versions of Virtual Earth and Live Maps are now available, delivering a wide range of enhancements starting with the graphical user interface. At the same time, the majority of im... |
11 April 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Geo-evenement 2008 was the stage where Microsoft and Institut Geographique National unveiled a partnership designed to bring additional content to Virtual Earth. The five-year alliance between the Redmond company and IGN means that new aerial imagery of locations across France will be integrated into virtual Earth an... |
10 April 2008
13:51 GMT |
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On March 25, 2008, Microsoft has introduced a 42.85 TB (terabytes) update to Virtual Earth. The Redmond company is racing with its online platform combining geospatial data, rich imagery, as well as mapping and location information against the Mountain View-based Search giant's Google Earth. And in this context,... |
26 March 2008
13:20 GMT |
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Microsoft's Virtual Earth is in a continual growth process. At the time being, the general perspective is that Google Earth is a much more elaborate, content-rich and more popular service than Virtual Earth, and while that may very well be the case, the Redmond company has by no means thrown down the towel. In f... |
4 March 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Is Microsoft preparing to build a 3D virtual world on top of its Virtual Earth mapping and location platform? Well, truth be told, this scenario is not as far-fetched as it might seem initially. Online hotspots, such as Second Life, are delivering virtual worlds complete with societies and functional economies. And M... |
8 February 2008
04:16 GMT |
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There is a consistent drive for interoperability over at Microsoft. In response to consumers' needs, the Redmond company has rushed to provide support and interoperability for heterogeneous environments. This scenario more than accurately explains the strategic alliance Microsoft has inked with Novell at the end... |
7 February 2008
03:42 GMT |
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Microsoft's Virtual Earth has yet to come close to the user base of Google Maps, but this does not mean that the company is not evolving its platform, in an effort to top its direct competitor from Mountain View. Case in point: in January alone, the Redmond company introduced a 27TB update to Virtual Earth. Acco... |
6 February 2008
06:49 GMT |
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It's quite simple to see where Microsoft has been, or where Virtual Earth is. All you have to do is head over at Live Maps and give the service a try. But when it comes down to where Virtual Earth is going, things are not as simple. However, Microsoft is indeed offering a sneak peek into the evolution of Virtual... |
22 January 2008
05:48 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered how Microsoft's Virtual Earth manages to display extremely large mapping data sets in the browser almost instantaneously? Well, if this is indeed the case, then, the Tiled Vectors demo might clue you in on the matter at hand. The Tiled Vectors demo is now available for download and, of cou... |
21 January 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Harley-Davidson ridding on the open roads of... Microsoft Virtual Earth. Back in 2006, Harley-Davidson introduced an application dubbed Great Roads which is designed to take advantage of the Redmond company's Microsoft Virtual Earth. With Virtual Earth, the Redmond company is providing much more than a collectio... |
18 January 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Generally speaking, when it comes down to cooking updates for its online location and mapping service, Microsoft builds the refreshes itself. But at the same time, there is nothing stopping the company from buying updates. This is exactly what happened as Microsoft announced that it swallowed online mapping company M... |
12 December 2007
10:41 GMT |
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If you are not on Microsoft's Windows Vista map put together in Virtual Earth, then you don't really matter much to the Redmond company. And yes, that's right, Microsoft has built a map of Windows Vista deployments and integrated it on top of its Virtual Earth platform. Enter the tropic of Vista, or is... |
22 November 2007
10:47 GMT |
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Microsoft wants users to put their video making skills hard at work via Virtual Earth. The invitation comes from the Virtual Earth team and it involves leveraging the new 3D Tours and Video Export features added to the online mapping service. The grand prize is a flash-based 8GB Zune 2.0 digital media player. The con... |
9 November 2007
04:45 GMT |
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The continual growth of the information and communication technologies infrastructure will be tracked via a new online platform based on Microsoft Virtual Earth. ITU Global View was unveiled on the debut of the Connect Africa Summit, as an initiative set up to help monitor and evolve the stages of the World Summit on... |
29 October 2007
10:28 GMT |
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Let the 3D modeling start! Microsoft is now enabling users of its Virtual Earth platform to build and integrate three dimensional architectures on top of the service. The 3DVIA technology was born through a partnership between the Redmond company and Dassault Systèmes, and is designed to enable the creation of 3D bui... |
19 October 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Microsoft has fed a 38.1 TB update to Virtual Earth and with it introduced a new feature dubbed Birds Eye Navigation in 3D. In the video embedded at the bottom, courtesy of the Virtual Earth team, you will be able to see Birds Eye Navigation in 3D in action. The update is an integer part of the overall overhauling of... |
16 October 2007
13:07 GMT |
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Virtual Earth is Microsoft's response to Google Earth. Both Internet services are designed as a complex combination between bird's eye, aerial, and 3D imagery on top of mapping, location, and search capabilities. The Redmond company emphasized from the debut of the mapping service the fact that Virtual Eart... |
16 October 2007
09:13 GMT |
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Microsoft Virtual Earth is a mission-critical geospatial and mapping platform and in this context it should be no surprise that the U.S. government is interested in the product. The Redmond company has applauded a new agreement inked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for the licensing of Virtual Ea... |
13 September 2007
11:17 GMT |
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There are little secrets left in the world and with Google Earth and Microsoft's Virtual Earth mapping every nook and cranny of the planet's surface, items that might have catalyzed an arms race during the Cold War become more and more everyday commodities. Top secret nuclear submarines for example are no l... |
31 August 2007
09:59 GMT |
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Virtual Earth is a Microsoft online platform designed as an integrated set of services bundling together 3D environments, with bird's eye and aerial imagery, offering mapping, location and search capabilities on top. But the latest addition to Virtual Earth doesn't come from the Redmond company but from Vis... |
27 August 2007
04:13 GMT |
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