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  • Some updates from Bing Maps
    Mon, 10th May 2010 21:55 UTC
    Over the weekend, Bing Maps launched a new application in partnership with National Geographic called Global Action Atlas. The new application allows people to peer into areas where our planet...
  • Bing Maps adds Worldwide Telescope
    Wed, 17th Mar 2010 21:17 UTC
    кухниLast month, we showed you that amazing video of Blaise Aguera y Arcas showing off some new and upcoming features of Bing Maps.  One of those was the integration of...
  • Massive update to Bing Maps
    Fri, 5th Mar 2010 22:15 UTC
    Microsoft has just released their largest update ever to Bing Maps, with more than 6.7M sq. kilometers of fresh imagery. They added a ton of new imagery in the Russian...
  • Amazing video of Bing Maps at TED
    Sun, 14th Feb 2010 16:53 UTC
    Blaise Aguera y Arcas recently shared some new Bing Maps features with the audience at TED, and he showed off some amazing stuff. The way that Flickr images (and even...
  • More aerial views; National Geographic app; Google Maps for the indoors
    Sat, 23rd Jan 2010 18:30 UTC
    A few cool things to point you toward today: More Cities get “Aerial View” in Google Maps — Portland, OR and Sacramento and Oakland, CA all have new “bird’s eye”...
  • Bing leaves beta, adds lots of data
    Wed, 20th Jan 2010 03:30 UTC
    Lots of big stuff happening with Bing Maps lately… Vancouver and Whistler added to StreetSide: Good timing for both of this, with the Winter Olympics getting ready to start. Two...
  • Bing releases iPhone app with nice Maps implementation
    Wed, 16th Dec 2009 23:34 UTC
    Microsoft just released the “Bing” application for iPhone and it is a solid effort.  It was voice search that is similar to the Google app, and Maps implementation that is...
  • MapQuest launches its own StreetView clone: “360 View”
    Mon, 14th Dec 2009 15:14 UTC
    Less than two weeks after Microsoft launched “Streetside” imagery to compete with Google’s StreetView, MapQuest has done the same.  They call it “360 View”, and it’s remarkably similar to Microsoft...
  • Bing to take over MapQuest? It’s possible.
    Fri, 11th Dec 2009 21:48 UTC
    An article over on Screenwerk today seems to think that Microsoft may start powering the engine behind MapQuest, similar to how they power the search results for Yahoo. It would...
  • Microsoft teams with Navteq to expand their Streetside coverage
    Mon, 7th Dec 2009 20:48 UTC
    When Microsoft launched Streetside a few days ago (a direct competitor to Google’s StreetView), I wondered how they could possibly catch up with the huge amount of coverage that Google...

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