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New features launch on Live Local
REDMOND, WASH., September 12, 2006 — Live Local Search released new features today including white pages people search, customizable drawing tools, content delivery via text messaging and bird’s-eye imagery added in 25 new cities. This online local search and mapping service, powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Virtual Earth platform, delivers a core set of tools that combine maps and directions, immersive satellite imagery, and local search functionality

Read PC Magazines Review of MapPoint 2006
It's difficult to look at a column of numbers and try to visualize data trends. Whether you want to analyze your own data, develop sales territories, or plan a marketing program based on demographic data, Microsoft MapPoint 2006 is the answer. Install MapPoint 2006 on any Microsoft Windows-based system and you can easily visualize and analyze data by plotting the results geographically. The new version adds a number of new features not found in its predecessor, MapPoint 2004, as among them GPS-based driving and updated demographic databases. The only caveat is that the most current demographic data available for the app is two years old. There's plenty of value to the 2004 data—especially as detailed as it is—but if you're planning a major marketing program in a rapidly changing field it might not be current enough.

Special edition of MP2KMag
MP2K Magazine is your source for independent news and information about MapPoint technologies and products and is home to the popular web forum for MapPoint users and developers. This issue features new articles from Mohanraj Annamalai and Richard Marsden as well as a new map from Coverpoint MapPoint training.

MSDN Webcast: Location Solutions with Virtual Earth
The webcast provides a comprehensive introduction to the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform, including a look at the SOAP and JavaScript APIs that provide rendering, map navigation, geo-coding, proximity searching, and routing features. Learn best practices, solution tips and code samples and begin adding maps and geographic information system (GIS) features to your applications.

Bill Gates demos solutions built with Virtual Earth
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates delivered the keynote at the tenth annual Microsoft CEO Summit, which draws more than 100 CEOs from top companies around the world. Gates’ keynote focused on key issues concerning business intelligence and enterprise information management solutions.

Microsoft Acquires Vexcel Corp., a Worldwide Leader in Imagery and Remote Sensing Technology
REDMOND, WASH., May 4, 2006 - Microsoft Corp. today announced it has acquired Vexcel Corp., a worldwide leader in photogrammetry, imagery and remote sensing technologies. This deal, the second in the past six months for Microsoft’s Virtual Earth business unit, was done to enhance the talent, technologies, products and services dedicated to fulfilling Microsoft’s broad vision for best-of-breed local search and mapping solutions for consumers, businesses and government.

Zillow.com™ Adds 3D-like 'Bird's Eye' Aerial Photos Alongside Home Valuations and Data Imagery From Microsoft's Virtual Earth Platform Gives Home Buyers a New Immersive Aerial View of Homes and Neighborhoods From All Sides
SEATTLE, WASH., April 13 - Consumer real estate Web site Zillow.com today announced the addition of 45-degree, low-altitude aerial photos to its home valuation and data with the integration of bird's eye images from Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. The images, a first for any consumer real estate site, provide stunning views of a home and its surroundings from four directions, giving home buyers another valuable piece of information about a potential home purchase.

Cybergolf Launches 40 City Sites with Microsoft Virtual Earth Mapping Platform
Cybergolf, the worldwide leader in online marketing systems for the golf industry has launched, CybergolfCities.
Cybergolf Cities couples golf course content with Virtual Earth web service to complete the search process for golf consumers. City-specific sites are tooled with multidimensional mapping to ease the challenge of finding golf courses.

Sperry Van Ness Delivers Virtual Earth Based Application
IRVINE, CALIF., March 21, 2005 – Sperry Van Ness delivers innovative mapping and imagery solutions to commercial real estate advisors using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth platform.

LoopNet Announces New Commercial Property Tools, Including a New Map Search, Satellite Imagery and Bird’s Eye Property Images
SAN FRANCISCO (January 26, 2006) — LoopNet, Inc., a leading information services provider that operates the largest and most heavily trafficked commercial real estate listing service online, today introduced a powerful new suite of property search tools. Powered by Microsoft’s Virtual Earth web services, LoopNet delivers its customers the most advanced property search and imagery available in the commercial real estate industry, including high resolution satellite imagery and bird’s eye property imagery from Pictometry, Inc.

Precision Geocoding Technology to Integrate with Microsoft Online Mapping Offerings for Enhanced Location Accuracy
Lanham, MD – Group 1 Software, Inc., a Pitney Bowes Company, today announced that Microsoft Corp. has chosen to incorporate Group 1’s GeoStan™ geocoding software and data into its online offerings, MapPoint Web Service and Windows Live Local, for real-time geocode assignment. Group 1’s GeoStan will enable Microsoft to improve the accuracy of the address location on its online mapping systems.

Windows Live Local Launched
Microsoft introduced a beta version of Windows Live™ Local, an online local search and mapping service that combines unique bird’s-eye imagery with advanced driving directions, Yellow Pages and other local search tools on Dec. 8, 2005. Powered by Virtual Earth™ mapping and location platform, these features give users useful new ways to map and find directions to various locations and better visualize their surroundings from multiple aerial vantage points.