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 ... Read more »

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 sideways rather than a full ... Read more »

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 locations of ... Read more »

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 and published as part ... Read more »

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 ... Read more »

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 “Street Slide”: ... Read more »

Bing and Google Maps AJAX performance compared

Last November, Bing Maps rolled out their version 7.0 of the Bing Maps AJAX control, which meant that users could view enhanced Bing Maps without Silverlight, and developers could work more easily with Bing ... Read more »

Free webcast for map developers

Bing Maps developers will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free 40 minute webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1. The webcast is presented ... Read more »

Tracking the Floods with Bing Maps

If you want to see on a map where floods have occurred in Australia, check out ninemsn. They have put up a Bing Maps user collection map mapping out where the floods have occurred. ... Read more »

Bing introduces Mall Maps

Well this one is even more exclusive than the usual Bing “US only” announcement, but quite cool anyway: in a blog post today, Bing Maps has announced “Mall Maps”, which feature individual store locations ... Read more »