Microsoft has launched the UK version of its Virtual Earth Platform, a set of online mapping services aimed at customer-facing businesses such as retail stores, estate agencies and the tourist ...

Microsoft Monday is planning the release of a new online local search product that goes head to head with a similar offering from rival Google. Microsoft Monday is planning the release of a new online ...

Microsoft is about to upgrade its mapping product, Live Local, to Microsoft Virtual Earth, a competitor to Google Earth (see news story here). We got a live preview of the product a few days ago and ...

Microsoft was set to release on Monday a new online local search product that goes head to head with a similar offering from rival Google. MSN Virtual Earth, first announced by the Redmond, Washington ...

Virtual Earth–which offers a combination of aerial imagery, maps and yellow-pages data–is designed to let users search for and share information about specific U.S. locations, the company said. For ...

Microsoft released MSN Virtual Earth, a online local search product designed help the company catch up with rival Google in the burgeoning search market. MSN Virtual Earth, first announced by ...

Microsoft is firing a shot across Google's bow with a new service called MSN Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth overlays satellite imagery of local buildings and neighborhoods viewed at a 45-degree-angle ...

InfoNow will integrate Microsoft's Virtual Earth application into its mapping location services that it provides for retail outlets and banks, the two companies said on Wednesday. Although it provides ...

Microsoft Describes How Virtual Earth Was Built You want to know what the definition of "cool" is? It's sitting in the front row of a hotel meeting hall, watching a demo of Microsoft Virtual Earth on ...

Microsoft has integrated Photosynth, its technology that stitches pictures together, with Virtual Earth, encouraging businesses to combine the two technologies. The company envisions real-estate ...

Now, most of the technology used in these tools is about as original as a new Cheech and Chong movie. Besides its aerial imagery licensing deal with Pictometry, Microsoft uses satellite imagery from ...

Microsoft Corp. will work with 3D design and visualization software developer Dassault Systemes SA, to add a new dimension to its Virtual Earth mapping and satellite imagery service, the companies ...