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Move Over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth
Talkback P.S.even better would be if the cam inbedded the co-ordinates so when the pics are on the computer somehow Windows, for example, could tap into the Virtual Earth's database and show you the 45 degree 'Eagle Eye' view of where it is in real life!
[July 26, 2005, 12:01]
Move Over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth
News Microsoft is playing catch-up to rival Google with the release of a beta world mapping service, MSN Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth is a wrap up of a number of location-based services, including mapping of the world's surface, map annotation and...
[July 25, 2005, 18:25]
Move Over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth
Talkback One of the big benefits over Google Earth (and really suprising for a Microsoft product ;-) ) is that it is multi-platform, apart from the Wi-Fi location finder, it looks like it is platform independent, whereas Google is only works under Windows...
[July 26, 2005, 8:23]
Microsoft Brings Virtual Earth To The UK
News We absolutely want to serve a richer set of tools than Google," said Peter Williams, international marketing lead for Virtual Earth. Microsoft says it is determined to take on Google Earth, which offers a similar set of online mapping services.
[May 24, 2006, 13:00]
Mapping A Path For The 3D Web
News With the spread of online games, virtual worlds and services such as Google Earth and MySpace.com, people may soon be spending more time, communicating more and shopping more in complex 3D Web environments.
[May 9, 2006, 16:20]
Google Mapping Spec Made Industry Standard
News KML is used to manage the display of geospatial information in Google Earth, the company's software for flying over the surface of a virtual globe. Keyhole's technology was built into the Google Maps site and the Google Earth software.
[April 15, 2008, 10:53]
Mapper
Downloads Basically, when you're viewing a virtual earth map, it allows you to change its imagery to Google Maps imagery and vice versa. Next to adding feeds to My Collections you can also add data from Web sites using either the Virtual Earth SDK or Google...
[February 26, 2007, 1:31]
Microsoft Launches Mapping Beta
News Meanwhile, in addition to Google Local integrated map and search, the search company has Google Earth, a downloadable program that allows users to get a simulated view of flying over cities. Microsoft on Thursday will unveil a beta version of...
[December 8, 2005, 9:25]
Google And Microsoft Vie For Earth Domination
News Microsoft was also represented at the event by Vincent Tao, director of MSN Virtual Earth — the software giant's rival application to Google Earth. An updated version of Google Earth is to be released on Tuesday night, adding a timescale to the...
[September 12, 2006, 16:00]
Mobile GMaps
Downloads Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth) and Ask.com Maps and satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. Mobile GMaps is an application that displays Google Maps, Yahoo!
[June 15, 2006, 16:37]
Google Sponsors Robotic Race To The Moon
News The X Prize is best known for the $10m Ansari X Prize, in which 26 teams from seven countries competed to fly a reusable spacecraft 100 kilometres above the Earth. The contest invites private teams from around the world to build a robotic rover...
[September 14, 2007, 15:12]
Gnome Linux Desktop Updated
News Qt forms the basis of many well-known desktop applications, such as Google Earth, Opera and Skype. Other additions include swfdec-gnome, allowing users to run Adobe Flash files on the desktop; Anjuta, an integrated development environment for C and...
[January 31, 2008, 17:11]
Planet-Tolkien Runs Rings Around Gmail
News Move over Google, here comes Middle Earth. British-based Planet-Tolkien.com is the latest company to offer a Web-based email product with 1 gigabyte of storage -- a trend that kicked off in late March with the test release of Google's Gmail service.
[May 28, 2004, 8:45]
Google: Time For World Domination?
News In addition, there are rumours that Google is eyeing satellite technology that drives its 3D Google Earth application. Certainly, it has built on the core business, adding everything from the Gmail free Web-based email service to Google Earth, a...
[September 21, 2005, 17:40]
Is Google's New VR Toy Really, Virtually All Its Own Work?
Blog It doesn't really have a name - there's a "Look around" tag that invokes it -- but you get to it through Panoramio, a recent Google acquisition which couples user-uploaded pictures to Google Earth. Google has gone and quietly launched a much more...
[June 3, 2008, 21:57]
Spoiling Google's Honeymoon
News At this conference, we do give out APIs for the MSN Search and the MSN Virtual Earth capability, so things that have been cloud-based services, you can have client applications that other services can connect to.
[September 14, 2005, 16:15]
AC3D
Downloads The software supports a wide range of 3D file formats including 3ds, obj, VRML, Google Earth, Second Life. Use AC3D 6 to create models and virtual landscapes and cities, design buildings, home projects, land, sea, space and air craft and much more.
[July 8, 2008, 17:46]
EC To Rival Google With Massive Digital Library
Talkback And what about the way people view the info, i've seen some bad UI's in my time and the EU website is nothing to should about, what about using something like Google Earth and have 3D buildings which can be zoomed into, and the work presented on...
[October 3, 2005, 21:34]
Microsoft Sets Out Its Online Services Strategy
News With its updated business terms, Microsoft is trying to encourage web entrepreneurs and developers to ally with its hosted services, such as Virtual Earth and Live search. These generous terms, which are explicitly allowed for commercial use, are...
[April 30, 2007, 10:12]
