Gigwalk to bring 3D Panoramas to Bing–from your iPhone

Bing is partnering with a new 9 week old company, Gigwalk, “the first on-demand mobile workforce” to bring 3D Photosynth panoramas of retail stores and restaurants into Bing Maps.  Gigwalk uses a mobile workforce ... Read more »

Photosynth for iOS v1.1 released

Two months after the first release, the Photosynth Team released version 1.1. of the Photosynth app for iOS. They’ve added in-app sharing via email and enhanced the saving of images to the device’s camera ... Read more »

Bing announces Read/Write World: expanding connections between maps and imagery

Bing has been making a steady stream of announcements regarding the connection of maps to images for quite some time now, from geo-located PhotoSynths to Streetside and StreetSlide imagery to live video in maps, ... Read more »

New from Bing Mobile: PhotoSynth for the iPhone

More from the Bing/iPhone camp, the latest news comes via a tweet that there’s a new PhotoSynth app now available for the iPhone. The app allows you to capture images, create PhotoSynths, and share ... Read more »

Stitch together video with Microsoft Research ICE

You may be familiar with the photo-stitching capabilities of Windows Live Photo Gallery, well they’re powered by technology coming from Microsoft Research, called ICE, or Image Composite Editor.  ICE has just gone live with ... Read more »

Microsoft Live Labs projects lives on – Seadragon Ajax and Silverlight PivotViewer

While we know that Microsoft Live Labs was shuttered almost a month ago – and the team was “transitioned” into Bing, it appears that not all the incubation projects went under Bing’s control (and ... Read more »

Share Photosynths on Facebook

Photosynth just got an update, which allows you to share photosynths on Facebook.   Not just your own, any synth you like! You don’t even have to be signed in on the photosynth site ... Read more »

ICE now uploads to Photosynth

The latest release of Image Composite Editor (ICE) has a “Publish to Photosynth” button. That’s right, you can now upload your full-resolution panoramas to Microsoft Photosynth for easy sharing on the web.  Photosynth is ... Read more »

2010 Haiti Earthquake

Haiti got struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake last week (Jan 12). Many heartbreaking photos and videos can be seen all over (Internet, television, newspapers). If you wish to see an all-over picture of the ... Read more »

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 ... Read more »