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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Microsoft's mapping, imagery, location and search platform is evolving constantly, but the latest move from the Redmond company is guaranteed to deliver a boost in performance. On May 20, 2009, the software giant started rolling out Virtual Earth to the Content Delivery Network. How does this move impact perform... |
21 May 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Virtual Earth can be a platform for more than just search, mapping and location applications and services, as it can also accommodate gaming content; geogames, to be more specific. UMapper allows users to create and play geogames built on top of Virtual Earth. Case in point: GeoDart, designed as a geography trivia ga... |
13 May 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed what it referred to as the natural synergy between Photosynth and Virtual Earth in July 2008. Almost a year later, the Redmond company has made yet another step in the marriage of Photosynth and Virtual Earth. Essentially, by integrating the 3D photo technology into its mapping, location and searc... |
7 May 2009
07:05 GMT |
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Want a complex perspective over the reports related to persons infected with Swine Flu? Then you turn to Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth and the 2009 Swine Flu H1N1 Outbreak and Migration Map. Users will be able to see the travel paths of Swine Flu cases around the world, as well as get similar information for suspect... |
30 April 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Render static Bird’s Eye images from Virtual Earth has never been easier than with an application offered by Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth tech evangelist, Microsoft. Pendleton has simplified the process of grabbing and stitching tiles with Virtual Earth Bird's Eye imagery into static images. The app prov... |
24 April 2009
09:10 GMT |
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There was a time when controlling the weather implied at least some sort of rain dance, but no more. Now all that you need is a check box, a few lines of code, and Virtual Earth. The Virtual Earth AJAX Control allows both users and developers to toggle 3D weather on and off in Microsoft’s mapping, location and ... |
21 April 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Virtual Earth 3D 4.0 is available for download from Microsoft. The latest iteration of the Virtual Earth 3D Control went live on the Microsoft Download Center on April 9, 2009, concomitantly with additional changes introduced by the company to its mapping, location and search platform. In this regard, the software gi... |
10 April 2009
11:36 GMT |
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As a part of the April 2009 Virtual Earth API release, Microsoft has updated the Virtual Earth AJAX control. According to the Redmond company, one of the changes involves tailoring the Virtual Earth AJAX control to the latest iteration of IE made available in March 2009, namely Internet Explorer 8. Chris Pendleton, V... |
10 April 2009
10:30 GMT |
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The March 2009 update introduced to Virtual Earth is less than half the size of that in February, but still, the coverage is nothing short of impressive. According to Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist Microsoft, the March 2009 Virtual Earth update is focused exclusively on making a vast volume of ortho i... |
30 March 2009
10:13 GMT |
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The latest update to Microsoft's Cloud mapping, search and location platform manages to refresh all of the Bird's Eye vector overlays. The Virtual Earth Imagery & Map Data Release, February 2009, is a massive refresh, even though just half the size of the new content introduced by Microsoft just a couple of... |
6 March 2009
06:30 GMT |
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GeoLife 2.0 is a project from Microsoft Research Asia designed to build a location based social-networking service. GeoLife, the brainchild of Microsoft Researcher Yu Zheng, was demonstrated at TechFest in Redmond this week, and you will be able to find a video embedded at the bottom of this article showcasing the se... |
26 February 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is no stranger to multi-Terabyte data updates for its mapping, search and location platform in the Cloud, but in January 2009 the company simply outdid itself. In this context, the software giant introduced 100 TB of new data to Virtual Earth and Live Maps. The January 2009 Virtual Earth update contains fre... |
4 February 2009
07:57 GMT |
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The new version of the Live Maps India consumer website is live and ready for users since February 3, 2009. But the update does not stop at the consumer-side of Live Maps, as Microsoft is now offering developers a new application programming interface designed to permit applications taking advantage of the Virtual Ea... |
4 February 2009
05:32 GMT |
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The evolution from Windows Vista to Windows 7 will enable users of the next iteration of the Windows client to take advantage of features and capabilities unavailable to its precursors. The Windows 7 Navigation Applications, currently tailored for the Beta Build 7000 of the client, is an illustrative example in this ... |
22 January 2009
05:49 GMT |
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At the start of 2009, Jeremy Beasley, product manager, Live Search mobile, revealed that Microsoft had updated Live Search Mobile for Windows Mobile. At that time, Beasley offered only a superficial perspective over just how the update managed to enhance end-user experience, but Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth tech ev... |
21 January 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft launched a new localized version of Live Search Maps. Hot on the heels of Live Search Maps Finland, the Redmond company has now introduced Live Search Maps Netherlands. The website is already live, and is offering a completely new perspective over the Netherlands. According to Microsoft, the webs... |
20 January 2009
04:31 GMT |
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At the end of the past week, Microsoft introduced Live Maps Finland, a release made possible by the continuous evolution of Virtual Earth. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth tech evangelist, revealed that Live Maps Finland managed to use almost exclusively the Virtual Earth platform. In this context, Finish users now hav... |
12 January 2009
05:36 GMT |
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As far as its mapping, search, and location Cloud platform is concerned, Microsoft is wrapping up 2008 with nothing short of a bang. Not only did the Redmond company take the Holiday celebration to a whole other level by housing Santa Claus' North Pole village in Virtual Earth and allowing users to track his jou... |
30 December 2008
15:04 GMT |
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Ahead of Christmas, Microsoft introduced what it referred to as a Virtual Earth Christmas experience, namely a 3D version of Santa’s Village at the North Pole, along with a new Santa Tracker, all made available to users via the company's mapping, search, and location platform. Not only did the software gia... |
30 December 2008
06:50 GMT |
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An upgrade for the online 3D modeling software designed to built content for Virtual Earth has been made available for download the past week. 3DVia is a solution designed to permit the creation and integration of three dimensional objects into Microsoft's mapping, location and search platform. In the video embe... |
22 December 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Deep Earth is a project created at the intersection of Microsoft Virtual Earth, Silverlight 2, and open source. Hosted on the Redmond company's open source repository CodePlex, version 1.0 of Deep Earth is available for download as of December 17, 2008. According to Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth tech evangelist... |
19 December 2008
09:18 GMT |
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It's “snowing” AJAX over 3D virtual models and rasterized photographs in Santa's village this year, and Microsoft is the only one to thank for this gift. With Christmas just around the corner, the Redmond company has kicked the holiday spirit to a whole different level. The Virtual Earth Product... |
17 December 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth has grown with the integration of content from Photosynth. Essentially, Microsoft is now integrating synths into its mapping, location and search platform. This means that Virtual Earth users will no longer be able to explore only aerial, Bird's Eye and satellite imagery, but also ... |
7 November 2008
11:24 GMT |
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There are no small increments to the content associated with Microsoft Virtual Earth. In fact, because of the way that new and existing content have to blend together, the Redmond company prefers to deliver massive multi-terabytes updates to its mapping, location and search platform. It is the case with the latest up... |
6 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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A new application programming interface from Multimap (a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary) is designed to streamline the process of embedding Virtual Earth content into third-party websites. The Redmond company acquired Multimap in December 2007, and the immediate integration of the online mapping service focused o... |
17 October 2008
07:17 GMT |
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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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