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Perhaps it really is over!! There was an interesting internal email thread within Conchango today which began with an email from Simon Knightley saying this:I recently came across Microsoft’s response to Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth at http://maps.live.com/If you select the 3D option and install the active X control, you get ...

One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here. Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike myself who just did a feature-by-feature comparison Gear Digest make a firm ...

Version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile (WLS) has been released. Read the announcement here which contains screenshots and in this case a picture really does tell a thousand words. Here's the list of new features:Get movie timesSearch for restaurants and see ratingsWLS will now cache onto your storage card if you have ...

Google have created quite a stir with their Google Maps for Mobile tool (my colleague Keni Barwick has talked about it here) but did you know that Microsoft have had a very similar tool called Windows Live Search for Mobile available for alot longer? These two products are the best examples that I can think of to illustrate the ...

As regular readers will know I keep a keen eye on what is happening in our industry as to regards web "stuff"and in particular I pay close attention to Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. There are a lot of things I like about what they are doing though at the same time there are quite a few that I don't. Here is a ...

Blog king Robert Scoble recently posted a mildly critical opinion of Live Maps in comparison to Google Maps. That isn't what got my attention though and isn't why I'm posting this. The discussion in the comments section got round to brand value on the internet and Robert stated: "Brand doesn’t mean *** ...

I recently downloaded Live Search Mobile onto my smartphone. One of the best features about it is that they have categorised local amenities so that if you want to to find (say) your nearest restaurant it really is very easy to do. The high-level categories are:ActivitiesGovernment and CommunityHealth and FitnessHotels and ...

I have spoken before about just how cool I think the Live Maps experience is and I also said that the Live taem needed to start spreading the word about it better than they are doing at the moment. Well, perhaps they took me at my word because today the Canadian Live team have released this 6 minute video that shows off some of the features ...

As reported here on the Virtual Earth blog there was a new release of Virtual Earth recently. Normally interim releases wouldn't be very interesting but there's some new functionality that I requested a while back and I'm thrilled that its now in there. Namely, you can now measure the distance of routes. This is really useful if, for ...