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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:06 AM

Hotels.com International Launches on Virtual Earth

If you're traveling to Ireland or Germany, you can now use Hotels.com's localized sites with Virtual Earth maps. The integration is rather simple showing maps of the hotel locations - just click one of the hotels and click on the panel to view the map.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:27 PM

InfoSpace.com Launches on MapPoint Web Service

Infospace.com and local.infospace.com is now live on MapPoint Web Service. This has been a long process that started 2 years ago(!) and is now live. InfoSpace powers such sites as MetaCrawler.com , WebCrawler.com , WebFetch and DogPile.com . All yellow
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:18 AM

Virtual Earth in the Public Sector

Check out the RecruitMAP video used for recruiting people into military branches. The video shows how Virtual Earth can integrate with MS CRM & Dynamics to make geospatial decision-making easy. If you want additional information on how to integrate
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Friday, February 23, 2007 8:16 PM

Inside Virtual Earth 3D

Duncan Lawler, Principle Development Lead for Virtual Earth 3D, (also has the glorious esteem of sitting across the hall from me) has posted an article on MSDN explaining how VE3D works in more detail. If you're interested in VE3D you should definately
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Friday, February 23, 2007 7:08 PM

SAP and Virtual Earth

How about some SAP and Virtual Earth integration? Check out this video explaining how mapping provides better business intelligence combining SAP and Virtual Earth: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/businesses/partners/demos/sap/index.html . The zone
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Friday, February 23, 2007 5:53 PM

Harley-Davidson Great Roads Now Live with Virtual Earth

http://www.harley-davidson.com/wcm/Content/Pages/Great_Roads/hdEarth.jsp?locale=en_US Harley-Davison just launched its Great Roads application using Virtual Earth and it is sick! If you're a rider and want to find killer routes to drive on you should
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:00 PM

Try Local Searching via SMS

The mobile team at Microsoft has released an SMS application that lets you perform quick searches by sending a text message to 95483 (WLIVE or OTRIE for those of us with PPC). It's actually pretty slick. I sent a text for "sergios 92123" and I received
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:30 PM

Weather.com now using Virtual Earth

The biggest weather site on the web just lauched with Virtual Earth as their mapping platform of choice. Here's a sample: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/92123 . The site using a Flash interface to overlay weather data atop of VE. You can see different
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:17 PM

MapPoint Web Service v5.2

MWS 5.2 is scheduled to release to the web on March 15. Most of the changes are backend hardware and architecture, so you won't be affected; however, there is one significant change you should be aware of and that is authentication. We're moving our authentication
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:12 PM

Upgrade from MWS to VE

Did you know upgrading from MWS to VE from a contract perspective is SOOOOO easy? It has recently come to my attention that many of our current customers didn't even know Microsoft owns BOTH MapPoint Web Service AND Virtual Earth. Soooo, just talk to
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:12 PM

eCityGov.net Maps our Parks and Recreation

The cCityGov.net alliance is a group of cities with in Washington State that have committed to partner together to provide on-line services and information to our customers. Their objectives are simple: • Provide convenient service and information for
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:30 PM

New Case Study Featuring BridgeStreet & Virtual Earth

Bridgestreet.com recently integrated Virtual Earth into their site for locating corporate housing. The site allows you to adjust your search radius to locate housing around the world and visualize the property with aerial ortho and oblique (bird's eye)
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:31 PM

Target Corp. Live on MWS & Virtual Earth

Target Corporation launched their new store locator with MapPoint Web Service and Virtual Earth. Both? Yes! See, Target was smart enough to realize that they wanted to maintain the same user experience for their locator that users had become familiar
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:36 AM

Avis and MapPoint Web Service

Avis Europe just rolled out their new site using MapPoint Web Service. You can read the Microsoft press release here and see the working application here . I like how they declare it "hiring a car." Kind of like hiring a limo driver or something. Nice
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:34 AM

CSR 5.1 is Now Live

The official version of MWS is now 4.5.1, for the record. We upgraded many of the backend infrastructure and added some features. In a nutshell we (1) added a new European map style, (2) added some logo removal capabilities for smaller device screens,
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:55 AM

Where to eat with Molly Sims . . .

The branded entertainment team has lined up custom live.com pages featuring Molly Sims, Hilary Duff and Jesse McCartney - http://celebrities.live.com/ . You can see where Molly likes to eat in New York; where Hilary likes to shop in Los Angeles; and Jesse
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:35 PM

Financial Services Integration with Virtual Earth

Jackson Hewitt got the memo and during tax season, no less - http://www.jacksonhewitt.com/Locator/ - find the nearest Tax Service Office. Virtual Earth is supporting mission critical applications for Jackson Hewitt; you could be next.
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