The Microsoft Research team had developed a sensor-based photo deblurring method back in 2010, which was designed to use the hardware motion sensors attached to a camera to help remove any motion blur ...

Microsoft announced today that they've added a whopping 121 terabytes of new satellite and Global Ortho imagery to Bing Maps (and, in turn, the Windows 8 Maps app), adding to an already robust amount ...

Bing Maps, Microsoft’s answer to Google’s omnipresent mapping platform, has today received a whopping 165 terabytes (TB) of new satellite imagery – its single biggest release to date. In fact, the ...

Hot on the heels of last week’s Read/Write World effort, Bing Maps has announced another ambitious project that will improve its imagery collection. It’s called the Global Ortho Project and the goal ...

Microsoft wants to remind you that Google isn't the only game in town. There's also Bing, and Bing Maps, the latter of which just received a pretty significant update with new top of the world and ...

Back when Bing Maps was called Microsoft Virtual Earth (2006) the company bought Vexcel, a US Defense Department contractor that specialized in high resolution aerial photography and automated 3D ...

Could a technology that deblurs aerial photos put Bing in the same predicament as Google when it comes to photos taken for Street View? Not a question that Rue Liu asks -- but the notion should remain ...

Thought that Google had cornered the market on free, overhead-view photo mapping solutions? You clearly don't reside in Redmond, because Bing Maps' aerial image library just got another 165TB worth of ...

Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft’s mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute of ...

Windows Insiders — those who are involved in beta testing Windows products ahead of Microsoft's Windows 10 launch — can now take a new Maps app for a spin. The new Maps app is available for both ...

Microsoft's new Flight Simulator is one of my most anticipated games of 2020, and now the hype meter for it just went up a few notches. First, check out this video -- and second, below I'll write ...