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This months installment of the monthly imagery publish into Windows Live Maps / Virtual Earth includes an amazing 11.5 terabytes of new data making it the largest update ever to Virtual Earth. Birds Eye imagery in Europe got a major boost including the completion of London. High resolution aerial imagery from many of the Virtual Earth’s partners worldwide rounds out the update. Here is
Have you always wanted to visit New York City, but never had the chance to make it happen? Have you lived in the city for years, but still struggle to find your way around? Microsoft Live Search Maps will today begin offering three-dimensional, photo-realistic views of New York City buildings and landscapes, with perspectives that few people apart from Superman
Well it looks like the previous rumours of Google Maps Street View are coming true, Google today announced at the Where 2.0 conference, that they have added a new feature called “Street View” in certain locations on Google Maps. As well as this, starting today, Google is also adding developer-created gadgets called Mapplets to Google Maps. You can check out
Live Earth Founder and Producer Kevin Wall joined with Tatsu Kitagawa, the principal of Live Earth Japan office, at a press conference today to announce the artist lineup and ticketing information for Live Earth Japan. Wall announced that Japan is the only country hosting two events as part of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concert series to combat global warming.
There are no official figures yet, but it has been revealed in an interesting interview with Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, that they have sold a little over a million Zunes, which is pretty cool considering it’s not even the end of June, which Microsoft had set as their original target for selling a million players. Question: Can you
Just read over at Zdnet that Google has very recently registered several variations of the domain name googlestreetview.com so they could possible be announcing or even launching some kind of Google Maps Street View by the end of the month. Possible at Where 2.0. This functionality is likely in addition to the 3D buildings they are expected to announce at the same conference. The domain names
I’ve just been told that the Carling website is giving away twenty weekend tickets including camping every month from now until August for Carling Weekend: Reading & Leeds Festivals 2007. And all you’ve got to do is register, log-in and click a link to enter! 😉 Carling is going to be listing the lucky winners each and every month so if you
Grammy Award-winning band Linkin Park will headline the Tokyo leg of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concert series on July 7, 2007, organizers announced today. The full artist lineup and ticketing information for Live Earth Tokyo, which is being staged at Makuhari Messe, will be announced on May 29. Released last week, Linkin Park’s latest album, Minutes to Midnight is
Got to love this iPod Amnesty Bin spotted by fimoculous at the Microsoft Zune headquarters. Makes you wonder whether or not anyone will actually throw there’s away! I’m guessing not, but still it’s marketing with humour, though what would be even cooler is if we saw the bin slowly fill up with ipods over the next few days/weeks, or even better how
Live Earth Founder Kevin Wall, DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche, and singer Katie Melua joined with smart’s Global Marketing and Sales Head Anders Jensen at a press conference in Stuttgart today to announce details of Live Earth’s partnership with smart, the world’s only automaker serving as an Official Partner of Live Earth. The announcement also included the artist line-up and ticketing