Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world.
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19.11.2006 Google Earth Used as a Spy Satellite?
The homicide detectives from the Melbourne department have recently started investigating a murder case, which seems to be taken out of a thriller that cannot be broadcasted before midnight. The body was found wrapped in plastic bags and dumped in the front yard of an empty Melbourne house that had an overgrown lawn, which covered the body all too well.
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13.12.2007 Defense agency to use Microsoft's Virtual Earth
Microsoft is collaborating with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a division of the Department of Defense, on its Virtual Earth technology.
The NGA wants to use the Virtual Earth technology "to provide geospatial support for humanitarian, peacekeeping and national security efforts," Microsoft said in a statement on Thursday.
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19.5.2006 MSN.com Kicks Off Live Earth Promotions
Microsofts MSN.com is kicking off its sponsorship of the upcoming Live Earth concert series with a host of promotions, including earth-friendly premiums and sweepstakes.
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29.6.2007 Why we can count on Bill Gates to save the earth
Bill Gates is an improbable humanitarian. He built a reputation as a nightmare boss at Microsoft, a totalitarian who screeched at employees he thought were stupid. He bludgeoned competitors with his illegal monopoly.
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3.9.2007 Microsoft to Users: Patch Virtual Earth
Microsoft is permitting end users of Virtual Earth that are not happy with the content offered via the service to introduce patches with imagery.
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1.8.2008 Bill Gates no longer richest man on earth
After 13 years on top, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. That honor now belongs to his friend and sometimes bridge partner Warren Buffett.
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6.3.2008 Virtual Earth, Full of Stars, via WorldWide Telescope
At the end of September, Microsoft made available a new version of Virtual Earth 3D, complete with a new 3D control.
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7.10.2008 Google Earth for Windows 5.0.11337.1968 Beta
Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
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Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D 3.0 Beta: Free Download
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there".
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7.10.2008Google Earth users outnumber Brazil's population
Michael Jones, chief
technology officer of
Google's geography software,
on Tuesday counted Google
Earth as fifth among the most
populous nations, by a measure
of how many people have
installed the mapping
application that lets people
see their house from space.
More than 200 million
people have downloaded Google
Earth, according to Jones, who
spoke here at the Fifth
International Symposium on
Digital Earth. That's just
under the population of
Indonesia at roughly 233
million and the United States
at just more than 301 million.
Brazil's population falls
short of Google Earth users
with 188 million residents.
Jones said that
Google Earth, which launched
two years ago, has also drawn
more installations than
Microsoft's Windows XP...
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06.06.2007Google Earth Gets Down to
Business
Enterprise unit takes over
Google Earth, mapping products
to integrate with search
tools...
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11.11.2005Google Earth Gets Featured
Content
Google on Wednesday plans to
deliver an update to its
Google Earth application that
includes content from a number
of premium sources. The
features are overlaid atop
areas in a map so users can
learn about their
significance.
Photos:
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images of the Google Earth
features..
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13.09.2006Microsoft Expands Virtual Earth Reach
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...
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28.03.2007Microsoft's Virtual Earth 3D gets boost with Caligari acquisition
In an attempt to level the playing field with Google Earth, Microsoft has scooped up Caligari, makers of 3-D rendering software...
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08.02.2008Microsoft Launches Virtual Earth 3D
Microsoft on Monday took the
wraps off Virtual Earth 3D, a
new version of the company's
mapping application that
enables users to "fly"
through three-dimensional
models of cities from directly
within their Web browser -
complete with virtual
billboards.
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07.11.2006Virtual Earth, Live Maps update: Lots of new features, new SDKs, more
Virtual Earth 6.2, a big new update to Live Maps, and new access to a 3DVia content library where you can download, mash-up, and include 3D content on
your 3D maps collections just went live. Lots to tell you about, and well be going into more depth on Virtual Earth soon, but heres some highlights.
Thanks to Virtual Earth Evangelist Chris Pendleton for keeping us in the loop on this one...
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25.09.2008Live Earth Breaks Streaming Records
Microsoft's MSN division said
over the weekend that its
online simulcast of Live Earth
had broken all previous
records for online events with
over 10 million streams
served, surpassing the
previous record held by AOL's
Live 8 coverage in 2005.
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09.07.2007How Google Earth Really Works
Don't miss
this article if youre at
all curious about how Google
Earth works on a technical
level how data measured in
terabytes and terapixels get
sent over a relatively
straitened Internet connection
and processed by a relatively
limited home computer.
The article is by by Avi
Bar Zeev, one of the early
developers of the program
(when it was still Keyhole
Viewer):
After
reading an article called
"How Google Earth Works" on
the generally great site
HowStuffWorks.com, it became
apparent that the article was
more of a "how cool it is"
and "heres how to use it"
than a "how Google Earth
works."
So
I thought there might be some
interest, and despite some
valid intellectual property
concerns, here we are, with
"part one" of explaining how
at least part of Google Earth
works.
winbeta.org - 05.07.2007
Google brings all of Earth to your browser
This morning at the Google IO conference, the company announced a new browser plug-in that enables users to get the same high-flying experience
they've been getting in the standalone geography software application Google
Earth.
The diminutive plug-in, which weighs in at just 300k turns Firefox 2 (3 RC1 is not currently supported) or IE6 and 7
into 3D-capable mapping solutions. The technology ties into the Google Earth API, and the current example found here lets you zoom around all of earth, complete with 3D topography. The controls are a little
more stripped down, with one button that scrolls around and right click contextual menus that let the user control which angle they're viewing the
map from. In the future, developers will be able to build their own tools on top of this platform, and drop it right into their sites.
winbeta.org - 29.05.2008
MSN launches Live Earth tree
Microsoft, the exclusive
online media sponsor for Live
Earth, has launched the
MSN Live Earth Tree - an
interactive online animation
that lets people worldwide
pledge their commitment to the
environment and join the
battle to halt climate change.
The Live Earth Tree
can be found at http://www.l
iveearthtree.com/ and
users are invited to visit the
site to design their own
unique leaf for the tree, and
pledge to make small lifestyle
changes to reduce their impact
on the environment.
The tree will grow in size
as people across the globe
sign up to make their pledge
and show their support for the
causes underlying Live Earth,
the concert series taking
place across the globe to
raise awareness of the current
climate crisis...
winbeta.org - 07.07.2007
Google Earth Highlights Destruction
While Google Earth has
primarily been touted for its
uncanny ability to take users
on a tour of the world's most
beautiful sights right from
their desktop, a new feature
added Monday highlights the
immense destruction human
beings leave in their wake...
betanews.com - 13.03.2007
Google Earth adds even more detail, sunlight effects
Google Earth 4.3 for PC, Linux, and Mac has been released in public beta, with an official release expected in a few weeks. Some of the additional
features include real-time day and night lighting effects and enhanced POV controls...
betanews.com - 17.04.2008
In Google Earth, a Service for Scanning the Heavens
After turning millions of Internet users into virtual explorers of the world with Google Earth, the Internet search giant is now hoping to turn many
of them into virtual stargazers.
Google is unveiling within Google
Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as seen from Earth. Like Google Earth, Sky will let users fly around
and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.
You will be able to
browse into the sky like never before, said Carol Christian, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute, a nonprofit academic
consortium that supports the Hubble Space Telescope.
winbeta.org - 22.08.2007
Microsoft Virtual Earth Used for OnStar
Microsoft Virtual Earth has become OnStar's software platform for merging GPS location and 3D aerial imagery. Companies ranging from Microsoft to
Intel and Google have all been participating in various ways in the integration of automobiles with Web 2.0 technology.
winbeta.org - 14.05.2009
Discovery Adds Videos to
Google Earth
Discovery Communications said
Thursday that video content
from its library would be
included in Google Earth
through a deal signed with the
search engine. Initially,
video would be available for
ten American National Parks,
including Yellowstone, The
Everglades and Mt. Rushmore...
betanews.com - 07.04.2006
Google Upgrades Earth, Maps
Products
Google's mapping products
received updates Monday,
including four times more
high-res imagery for its Earth
product and KML support in
Google Maps. Additionally,
Google plans to license the
API to enterprise users, it
said...
betanews.com - 13.06.2006
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" transmitted into Space
Today marks the launch of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", a remake from the 1951 film entitled the same. While science fiction fans will be
flocking en masse to the theatres today, the film may also have another type of audience, an audience that is extra-terrestrial. "The Day the Earth
Stood Still" will be the first film intentionally 'beamed' into space, according to 20th Century Fox, making it the first galactic motion
picture release in history. The film will be launched via the Deep Space Communications Network at Cape Canaveral. It will be broadcasted through
space at 186,000 miles per second to Alpha Centauri, a three star system.
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neowin.net - 13.12.2008
Microsoft Virtual Earth gets a 48TB update
Over than past few months, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team has been preparing the service for one of it's biggest updates since the release.
What's the definition of "one of it's biggest"? Well it's over 48TB of new and improved imagery. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth
technical evangelist at Microsoft, announced that the service has updated it's global vector data for the majority of it's tile sets. The
update includes multilingual tile sets for all zoom levels, localized tile sets for Japan, and all Bird's Eye imagery has been updated with new
road map labels.
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neowin.net - 01.01.2009
Google Earth Flight Simulator
Some time last week, Google expanded Google Earth with Google Sky. As fascinating as Google Sky is, that's not the focus of this
post. Along with the latest update comes a hidden feature of which I cannot seem to find any other information about. It's not in the release notes
and a search on Google produces no results. Seems Google have done one of their unpublicised updates they're becoming well-known for.
What I'm talking about is a flight simulator embedded within GE. Sounds awesome, doesn't it? If the thought amazes you as much as it did
me, then you might have run off and tried it for yourself. But there's a problem. Remember what I said above - it's a hidden feature!
winbeta.org - 01.09.2007
