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Street View 7 Continents in Google Maps for Mobile

Mobile phone users fond of Google Maps and on the various features the solution offers to them on their handsets should be happy to learn that some new enhancements are available for them. Street View in Google Maps for mobile now offers imagery from 7 continents, with the addition of new locations into the mix. Str...

1 October 2010
05:06 GMT

Record Bing Maps 6.7 Million Sq Km Imagery Update Released

Microsoft is not only adding new content to its mapping, location and search platform on a regular basis, but also making sure to break the records it sets in terms of the size of the updates. The latest imagery refresh offered to Bing Maps users covers no less than 6.7 million square kilometers, and, according to th...

8 March 2010
09:00 GMT

Bing Maps Imagery Update 1 Million Sq Km of New Content

Bing Maps’ evolution is without a doubt a multifaceted growth, with Microsoft making sure that the mapping, search and location platform moves forward in a variety of aspects. The past week, Bing Maps evolved with both new features and capabilities as well as with the addition of new content. At the end of the ...

15 February 2010
06:16 GMT

Bing Maps Imagery Update 1+ Million Square Kilometers

Microsoft has introduced a massive imagery update for its mapping, search and location platform at the start of 2010. So massive, in fact, that the Redmond company has had to break the refresh into half and make the content available via two different updates. In total, the new imagery release delivered to Bing Maps...

4 February 2010
04:31 GMT

Apple TV 3.0 Changes - Picture Gallery

iWorld-focused website iLounge has posted a gallery of photos on Flickr showing off the changes delivered by Apple with its new software update for Apple TV owners. Mostly focusing on UI changes, the gallery also includes imagery showing Genius, HD YouTube playback, Internet radio, iPhone/iPod touch Remote control, a...

30 October 2009
06:18 GMT

Google Earth Tracks Hurricane Gustav

Google has announced that users interested in the latest series of events related to Hurricane Gustav can now search for them on Google Earth. The application delivers, under the Weather tab, the latest information on the hurricane. The natural phenomenon was granted a special place in Google's applic...

1 September 2008
11:03 GMT

Microsoft Virtual Earth "Offline Mode"

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

Virtual Earth Gets Massive 69.2 Terabytes Update Plus New Virtual Earth 3D

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

Google Earth - Updated Imagery

Google Earth is most probably one of the best products of the Mountain View-based giant. Since its release (under the name of Google Earth) back in 2005, Google has tried to permanently improve its product. Currently, the free software application has reached its 4.3 version, which has a number of interesting new fea...

14 May 2008
06:25 GMT

Google Earth Not Aiming to Censor Indian Imagery

Since Google Earth is able to show all the details discoverable from satellites, some of the countries which are supposed to get updated imagery raise privacy concerns because the Google tool might show too many photos to the Internet users. But India is not one of those countries, Google's officials sustained. ...

2 November 2007
07:20 GMT

Major Update for Google Earth! Let's See What's New!

Google Earth, the famous mapping solution powered by the Mountain View company, receives new goodies from the parent firm that brings better quality for the imagery it provides. In an announcement published today, Matt Manolides, GIS Specialist, describes most of the improvements included in the last release of Googl...

27 July 2007
02:56 GMT

Google and NASA Release Major Google Earth Update

The Mountain View company and NASA partnered to bring impressive new imagery into the famous Google Earth mapping tool. Basically, the new update is divided into three parts: astronaut photography of Earth, satellite imagery and earth city lights. According to Wei Luo, Senior GIS Specialist the first layer of the new...

20 July 2007
03:44 GMT

Google Earth Rolled Out MAJOR Update

The Mountain View company rolled out an impressive set of images for Google Maps showing almost every corner of the world. Although these pictures were meant for the web-based service, as far I can see, some of the locations are also updated in Google Earth, the downloadable application that offers almost the same fu...

12 June 2007
04:36 GMT

Tornado Imagery for Google Earth

As Greensburg, Kansas was recently affected by a devastating tornado, Google Earth was quickly updated to display relevant pictures with the damaged areas. The photos were offered by Google's satellite provider DigitalGlobe that managed to capture impressive imagery with the zone. The updates are all included in...

10 May 2007
04:31 GMT

The Lost Windows Vista Embryonic Imagery

Windows Vista delivers an overhauled visual style unlike any other edition of the Windows operating system. Although many aspects of the platform have been contested, the redesigned graphical user interface has been evolved to tailor fit the taste of the users. Today, you will be able to get an insight on the develop...

11 April 2007
12:07 GMT


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