T Drive: MSR to Follow That Cab for better driving routes

At this week’s 18th annual ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, one of the submissions from Microsoft Research may provide better driving directions for Bing Maps, by following taxis to ... Read more »

Live Maps Directions with Traffic re-routing

One of the newly improved features of Live Maps is the traffic re-routing feature, called Clearflow, which can re-route Live Maps directions based on traffic information.  The new system, updated initially for 72 US ... Read more »

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.

Yes, the Live Search and Live Search Traffic gadgets are gone: security concerns cited

We’ve received some tips and comments about the Live Search Traffic gadget for Vista being removed from Windows Live Gallery when it updated last week, and indeed it is gone, along with the Live Search gadget.  ... Read more »

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 option ... Read more »

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 / ... Read more »

Traffic and Collections on Local.Live.com

Ooooh look some new toys just appeared on Local.Live.com. A new way to collect, save, and share pushpins and other info called Collections, including the ability to save Collections to Live Favorites, and a ... Read more »