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Bing Maps Part Two: is Streetside now Street Slide?
Just now when writing up the previous post on Bing Streetside coming to UK maps, we noticed something quite interesting: our Bing Maps Streetside has morphed into what Microsoft Research has called...
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Bing Maps: AJAX 7.0 Interactive SDK
To make it easier on developers to find corresponding code and events for use in applications, the Bing Maps team has released an interactive SDK for their AJAX Control 7.0. The left hand navigation...
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Bing Maps World Tour application updated
Hey, have you checked the Bing Maps World Tour application lately? The Tour now showcases 153 locations where Bing Maps features new outstanding high-resolution aerial imagery that is being captured...
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Microsoft’s Live Location API: Is it a “massive privacy hole”?
A CNET post today by Declan McCullagh (reposted at CBS News Tech with a more incendiary title) reveals that Microsoft, through its Live Location API, apparently allows searching by MAC address for...
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Bing Maps brings back 360º immersive panorama view, in addition to Street Slide
Back in May this year, we first noticed that Microsoft had replaced Bing Map’s Streetside panoramic view with Microsoft Research’s “Street Slide”, which lets users navigate street level imagery...
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Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services?
We’re just beginning to see a new generation of services appear that will take advantage of the rapid consumer move to smartphone technology, rare only a few years ago, and still in its early stages....
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Bing Explore gets a new look?
Yesterday we stumbled upon what appears to be a new look for the Explore pages on Bing.com, combining a new set of icons with a possibly more metro-ish look, and a new set of pages devoted to...
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Bing Maps, Windows Phone Translator App updated
A pair of posts on the Bing blogs today announced some new features for both Bing Maps and the Bing Translator App for Windows Phone. First, with Bing Maps, the nearly 900 venue maps are now much...
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Windows Phone Maps app traffic powered by Nokia now
A post on the Windows Phone blog today gives us a quick introduction to the updated maps traffic feature on Windows Phone. Thanks to the partnership between Bing and Nokia, which announced last month,...
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Google Maps returns to Windows Phone (does anyone care?)
After a flurry of bad PR late last week, Google has apparently rethought its user-agent string blocking of Windows Phone devices to its Google Maps service, and users are now reporting that they’re...
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