After months of residing online as a community technology preview (CTP), the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Version 1.0) has arrived and the .dlls are ready for your grubby, coding hands and vividly, creative minds to start bringing to life the next generation of location-based applications. The Bing...

Up for a challenge? Got a killer idea for the next great mobile or web, location-based application? Wanna win some killer prizes to propel your application into the spotlight? For the first time, Microsoft’s Bing Maps is sponsoring the developer-focused NAVTEQ LBS Challenge a location-based contest...

I had a bit of a crazy week last week mostly because my week revolved around being at the launch of the Digital Globe WorldView-2 satellite only to find out it had slipped two days and since I had committed to other meetings: no Vandenberg Air Force Base for me. However, my cohort who has more flexible...

A little plug for my United Kingdom friends who want to strut their GIS stuff...and win an X-Box. If you're in the UK, you can participate in the ESRI / Bing Maps Mashup Challenge . The rest of us will just have to twiddle our thumbs until we get a cool contest... The collaboration and sharing of data...

Oh man, this has been a hot topic since we announced the Virtual Earth ASP .NET Control CTP last year . And, with today’s announcement to retire the Live Frameworks CTP the question (yet again) today is what will happen with the Virtual Earth / Bing Maps ASP .NET Control? In brief, it’s toast...

Here come the rolling punches of MapPoint information. Last week, I told you about the release of the Microsoft® MapPoint® Add-In for SQL Server as a free download to import, edit and save your data from SQL Server 2008 (spatially indexed by geometries and geographies). Well, here is some more...

Do you feel out of the loop when it comes to Bing Maps? Wanna be cool like the rest of the kids who have the 411 on Bing Maps? Sign up for the Bing Maps for Enterprise Newsletter - a monthly subscriber based email for customers, prospects, partners, developers and influencers. Just go to the news page...

I’m moving on.... No, not from Microsoft or even Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth), but from MSDN. My blog is moving to the new Bing Community site . In fact, if you’re reading this you’re getting the entry from the new site, so “Hello, World!” Yeah, I’m the only...

Microsoft Virtual Earth now has a new name (and it’s not Kumo or Kiev). First, a little background to ensure we’re all on the same page. As of yesterday…. Live Search Maps was our consumer maps offering. This is the web site you go to for maps, aerial photos, directions, searching for points of interest...

Today we’re announcing the rollout of Virtual Earth to the Content Delivery Network (a part of Microsoft's Edge Computing Network). What does this mean? Well, Virtual Earth has historically been in a single data center serving up all these billions of tile images (and the AJAX map control) which...

As a follow up to my hospitality focused web cast last week “ Hospitality Businesses Create Strong Guest Connections with Virtual Earth (Level 100) ” or in the case that you missed the web cast (shame on you), the recording is now available for download on the Momentum web site . I talked about some...

In an immediate step to adjust our licensing in support for small, start up business, I present to you The BizSpark Program with Virtual Earth . The BizSpark Program is a means of helping small software companies get off the ground with discounted or free software and services from Microsoft. This is...

Welcome to MIX! Following suit with many Microsoft web technologies, here’s our product announcement…..It’s been a long time coming – a year, in fact, since I presented a sneak peak of the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight (VESL) Map Control at MIX 2008 . Now, here we are a year later at MIX 2009 releasing...

  We’re starting a new webcast series focused entirely on Microsoft Virtual Earth . Hosted by yours truly, the Webcast series will be hosted on the Momentum web site and is part of a new bi-monthly routine. Every month we’ll have a Virtual Earth 100 level overview of an industry, a technology or...

A little announcement for those of you NOT signed up with any kind of account and thus not receiving our communications… We’re pleased to announce that your Virtual Earth v6.1 applications will be automatically upgraded to v6.2 on March 5 th , 2009. This automatic upgrade will save you the time and effort...