AT&T launched a new service called “FamilyMap” , this service allow parents to track their child location. Parents will give their children an AT&T device, then login to the FamilyMap web site for viewing where their children are on a Microsoft Virtual Earth map. The portal has a number of features such as schedules, history and places considered safe for the children. All of this information can be slapped onto a Virtual Earth map chalked full of map data, aerial image and photography, but perhaps most crucially in this circumstance our high resolution Bird’s Eye photography which really illustrates an area of interest by providing an angled view of a location for additional context.
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Today ReadersZone comes with all major software releases by Microsoft in last month.
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Windows Vista Ultimate Extras : Three new Windows Ultimate Extras are now available for installation via Windows Update! This is the 6th wave of Ultimate Extras released by Microsoft exclusively for Windows Vista Ultimate users.
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New Online Food Website: Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines, and MSN today announced the launch of
Delish (a new online food destination. Delish.com, also available at
msn, features thousands of quick and easy food and cocktail recipes from Hearst Magazines and other sources, as well as fan blogs on the most popular food television shows, and the latest on food events and festivals worldwide.
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Word2007 Redaction Tool : This open-source tool is unsupported by Microsoft, however advanced users and IT Professionals may wish to review it. The tool enables the process of removing specific parts of text which you don’t want to appear in the final document.
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Windows Server 2008 HPC Server (HPCS) : Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing infrastructure.
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SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update #1 : You can find more information in the
KB Article 956717 to take your SQL Server to build 10.00.1763.00.
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System Center Essentials Technology Adoption Program (TAP): The goal of the
TAP program enables customers and Microsoft to build a mutually beneficial and long term relationship to build the next version of the
System Center Essentials product. If you are interesting in joining the TAP.
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Windows Live Messenger BETA : The next version of the popular
Windows Live Messenger is now available, get the
BETA version here. What’s new? A new improved and cleaner User Interface, pictures of people right in your contact list, the ability to search for people and the web, new categories feature and much more.
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Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0 : The next version of
Virtual Earth is now available with new features included, enhanced mobile support, better international support and more detail for more countries around the word, the platform infrastructure with new geocoding and parsing improvements, and a richer user experience and more intuitive functionality.
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Silverlight 2.0 RC0 : The release candidate of
Silverlight will give developers the change to convert their sites from Beta 2 before the final release is announced.
Source : Microsoft News Summary, 28th September 2008
Microsoft is working very hard to make their online services more powerful as well as more featured rich. In this series Microsoft has added 3DVIA (Beta) to its virtual earth that brings your ideas to life in 3D! Imagine, create and share 3D models within Microsoft Virtual Earth!
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Imagine your own 3D models
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Create a realistic visual experience in 3D within the Virtual Earth environment
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Share your 3D models on the web
The video embedded at the bottom of this article comes to illustrate what 3DVia can bring to Virtual Earth 3D. End users are of course free to add their own content to Virtual Earth by using the software. But since Virtual Earth 3D is still in Beta mode, they should also expect to run at least into minor issues.
Pendleton Said
I haven’t seen many models built out, but what I’ve seen have been okay – just okay. If you have some sweet models that you’re proud of send the link to your collection. I had issues installing 3DVia to the point that 3DVia just rendered a black screen. My RAM had vanquished and I had to work in a subzero fridge so my CPU didn’t catch my paltry video card aflame
3DVia is a free download from Microsoft. You can get it on Live Search Maps when you click 3D in the navigation control (there’s an option while you install the 3D plug-in); or, download it directly from the Virtual Earth-3DVia Download Page.
Source : Microsoft Virtual Earth Blog
