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BlackBerry PlayBook OS puts Flash on tablet

BlackBerry PlayBook OS puts Flash on tablet

...for detail. You'll also find apps for YouTube, Kobo e-reader, Bing Maps (using GPS) and games such as Need for Speed and Tetris... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Donald Bell

Microsoft drives Streetside mapping into the UK

...Microsoft has started taking photos in London for Streetside, its Bing Maps photo feature that will go up against Google Street View in... Read more

12 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

Microsoft drops 3D for Bing Maps

...Microsoft has unveiled a future update to its Bing Maps service that will drop the 3D map viewer. In a post... Read more

3 November, 2010 by Josh Lowensohn

Bing Maps adds public transport routes

...Microsoft has begun adding public-transportation directions to its Bing Maps service, with directions available initially in 11 metropolitan areas in North... Read more

20 September, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Google Maps adds live public transport updates

...and mobile browsers. Microsoft has integrated London bus and tube data into Bing Maps to allow people to find the best public transport route to... Read more

9 June, 2011 by Karen Friar

Bing to become default search tool on BlackBerry

...s standard search features. A further demo given by the architect of Bing Maps and Bing Mobile, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, showed the use of... Read more

3 May, 2011 by Simon Bisson

Microsoft, Google join forces to challenge GeoTag patent

...geotagging technology. Many of the existing lawsuits are with customers of the Bing Maps and Google Maps services, the filing said. "The suits have placed... Read more

3 March, 2011 by Ben Woods
Bing gets improved visual search and app

Bing gets improved visual search and app

...can zoom out even further than you can on the desktop iteration. Bing Maps architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas explained this feature is designed to... Read more

16 December, 2010 by Josh Lowensohn

Microsoft gives Bing Maps photos to OpenStreetMap

...initiative, announced on Tuesday, is starting with Microsoft's release of aerial Bing Maps imagery to the open-source mapping scheme's contributors. Microsoft also... Read more

25 November, 2010
Easy <endeca_term>Bing Maps</endeca_term> Downloader 7.23

Easy Bing Maps Downloader 7.23

Easy Bing Maps Downloader is a tool that can automatically download the Bing Maps... Read more

8 May, 2012
<endeca_term>Bing Maps</endeca_term> 3D

Bing Maps 3D

Bing Maps 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is... Read more

6 July, 2011
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 16 of 19): Location and <endeca_term>Bing Maps</endeca_term>

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 16 of 19): Location and Bing Maps

This is the longest of the sessions but packed full of great information and code on Location Services and the Bing Map... Read more

3 November, 2010

Microsoft takes German Bing Streetside imagery offline

Microsoft has temporarily removed the street imagery feature from Bing Maps in Germany, following complaints. The company launched the Bing Streetside feature... Read more

23 May, 2012
ARCast.TV: Building My First Windows Phone 7 Application

ARCast.TV: Building My First Windows Phone 7 Application

...podcast speaker explained how he used various components and techniques such as Bing Maps REST Services, Silverlight Toolkit, MVVM Light Toolkit, TiltEffect, BackgroundWorker and PerformanceProgressBar... Read more

3 January, 2011
Mapping Service Increases Performance by 80 Percent With Global Data Center Network

Mapping Service Increases Performance by 80 Percent With Global Data Center Network

Microsoft Corporation operates a content delivery network for its Internet-based services. Bing Maps took advantage of the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network, to cache... Read more

1 June, 2010

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

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@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

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