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Contest winners announced

The winners of both contests, Bing’s Home Sweet Homepage photo contest and the Seasonal Synth Challenge- Holiday Lights , have been announced. Home Sweet Homepage Entries from all across the globe came in , but the winner is Justin Kraemer’s Seattle Skyline...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2009 4:57 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Maps, PhotoSynth, Bing
Bing Maps Imagery & Map Data Release, July 2009

41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography has just been added to Bing Maps . So go on to the Bing Maps World Tour , there...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 3:59 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Maps, Bing
The BBC Goes Big On Bing Maps

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) sure loves Bing Maps . They didn’t publish one, not two, not three but eleven Bing map applications so far! There’s allsorts varying from an overview of the Berkshire Floods to an Irish Language Map and a request...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2009 5:23 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Maps, Bing
Bing Maps: A revealing discussion on Ch. 9

Charles Torre and Erik Meijer spent an hour talking to Bing Maps infrastructure architect Gur Kimchi for an episode of Expert to Expert on Channel 9 , and crammed a lot of information and a few juicy tidbits into the session. According to Kimchi, the...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 10:46 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Maps, Bing
Bing Maps Imagery Release – May 2009 (Introducing Bing Maps World Tour)

This month’s release contains 248,000+ sq. kilometers of new imagery. But not just that. You won’t get a ginormous list of locations but an experience, an experience in the form of the Bing Maps World Tour . The Bing Maps World Tour is hosted on Windows...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2009 11:19 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Maps, Bing
WorldMaps And Microsoft Virtual Earth

Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Evangelist, added a little Non-Virtual Earth map to his blog . What?! A non-VE map, what’s up with that? Well this WorldMap can also display a Virtual Earth map! Thanks to Chris Pendleton: …What was most interesting is that...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 3:50 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Maps
First of Many New Live Developer Articles

Hello fellow LiveSide readers, my name is John O'Brien. Its my second season as a Windows Live Developer/Platform MVP and I'm pleased to announce many new developer related articles in the works for your reading pleasure here at LiveSide. Today...

Published Sun, May 05 2008 7:22 PM by John OBrien

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Developer, Gallery, Maps, Silverlight Streaming, Silverlight, Photo Gallery
Live Search Maps adds traffic for 3 Canadian cities

Just in from our friends at Windows Live Chronicles , traffic info has been added for 3 Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal - so now Phunky can detour around that black line near downtown.

Published Tue, Dec 12 2007 6:09 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Maps, Live Search, Traffic
Version 2 of the Mobile Search application released

A new version of the Mobile Search application for Windows Mobile, Java-enabled phones and Blackberry's is now available. New features in the client application ( http://wls.live.com ) include: Movie times Traffic directions and GPS integration Cache...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2007 12:49 AM by Chris

Filed under: Mobile, Search, Maps, Traffic
Instant Answers adds maps and traffic info

Do a search in Live.com or MSN.com, and as of today, if you type in an address you should get an inline interactive map as the first answer, according to the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog . (click to enlarge) The new Instant Answers feature extends to...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2007 4:47 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Search, Maps, Traffic
New search site - Imagine Live Search

A new Live Search site was brought to our attention recently (thanks Jamie), http://search.imagine-live.com /. What's obviously different is the sparse homepage, notably the lack of vertical search options, which directs the users focus to the search box and nothing else.

Continue reading for screenshots and discussion of the new search site.
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Published Thu, May 05 2007 12:27 AM by Chris

Filed under: Windows Live, Maps, Live Search
Mix 07 Set to begin: what to expect

Mix 07, the Microsoft sponsored web developers conference in Las Vegas begins with registration tonight and the Ray Ozzie/Scott Guthrie keynote set for 9:30 PDT tomorrow (Monday April 30). So what to expect? Well lots of news and in depth coverage of...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2007 5:38 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Spaces, Messenger, Maps, LivedotCom, Mix 07, Ray Ozzie
3.8 Terabytes of new stuff at Live Maps/Virtual Earth - including Birds Eye for Chicago

A quick note posted today on the Live Maps / Virtual Earth blog announcing a major imagery release, including Birds Eye imagery for Chicago, along with "dozens of other cities, including tons of European imagery". The Live Maps guys posted a Collection...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2007 7:58 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Maps
Microsoft becomes even more mobile with Tellme

Microsoft is clearly investing in more mobile technologies by announcing Thursday that they will be purchasing Tellme Networks . Founded in 1999, Tellme is a provider of voice-enabled services, which include their free service +1 800 555 TELL [8355],...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2007 5:19 AM by Matthew

Filed under: LiveSide, Windows Live, Microsoft, VOIP, Mobile, Maps, G2
Live Maps traffic gadget for Windows Vista Sidebar available for download

After blogging about this nifty Windows Vista sidebar gadget a little while back , its now available for download on Windows Live Gallery . Even though the purpose of the gadget is pretty clear, Nathan Weinberg has a detailed post describing the in-and...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2007 10:20 AM by Chris

Filed under: Windows Live, Windows Vista, Gadgets, Maps, Vista

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