How to Build a Mobile-friendly Asset Management Platform

How to Build a Mobile-friendly Asset Management Platform

Whether you’re an operator managing a fleet from a desktop or an agent completing a sequence of deliveries with a mobile app, great asset tracking software should work seamlessly across a range of different devices. Learn how to build mobile-friendly asset management and tracking software designed for your business with this Bing Maps API guide.
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Bing Maps Android and iOS SDK V1 Ready for Production

Bing Maps Android and iOS SDK V1 Ready for Production

We are excited to announce that the preview is over and Bing Maps SDK for Android and iOS is ready for your production applications. Since preview started the team has added numerous features, increased loading performance by over 40%, and optimized the API structure and stability.
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Localizing Custom Mapping Data With Bing Translator

Localizing Custom Mapping Data With Bing Translator

In this post, we will show how you can use another of the Bing Developer Services – the Bing Translator Control and Microsoft Translator API – to localize your own custom content within your Bing Maps applications. We will use the Microsoft Translator API to demonstrate how we can localize custom content in a web application using our Web Map control, and we will also use the Bing Translator Control to show how we can localize custom...
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New Bing Maps iOS SDK

New Bing Maps iOS SDK

Today, we’re excited to announce a new Bing Maps iOS SDK. The iOS map control supports Bing’s road, aerial and hybrid aerial map styles, and includes the ability to add pushpins to the maps and access the user’s location via the GPS to locate the phone on the map.
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SxSW Musings and Where the World Is

SxSW Musings and Where the World Is

I have 12 of the 16 new foursquare badges in hand, a brain full of ideas for what’s to come, and a brazen interpretation of the SXSW conference. I figured I’d share a few thoughts. Augmenting Maps with Reality. For those of you who came to my Bing panel, thank you!
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Windows Phone and Bing Maps

Windows Phone and Bing Maps

Last week at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain I sat in the overflow room watching Steve Ballmer and Joel Belfiori announce Windows Phone 7 Series
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YellowPages.com’s Mobile Efforts with Bing Maps

YellowPages.com’s Mobile Efforts with Bing Maps

For the past years, I’ve worked closely with Yellow Pages (owned by AT&T Interactive) getting Bing Maps onto their Yellow Pages.com web site; however, they’ve also been working on some mobile applications that use Bing Maps. You can see the applications from your mobile browser 
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Weather Maps on the New MSN Homepage

Weather Maps on the New MSN Homepage

MSN has gotten an overhaul. We just launched a new version of the Weather experience and I must say the map looks GREAT! See for yourself: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/
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