A few minutes ago, the Bing Maps Beta went live for everyone, bringing with it a number of innovative new features sure to keep the Google Maps team on their toes. You can try out the new beta here.

Bing Maps Beta had plenty of suggestions for things to do around CNET's downtown San Francisco offices, but I had to zoom in very far to find my favorite bar. Maybe that's a good thing.

Bing now has 11.3% of the U.S. search market, thanks in no small part, I'm sure, to the fabulous, mind-bending progress of Bing Maps. To see what Bing is up to, check out this ...

The Bing Maps Blog announced several enhancements to Bing Maps. In summary, the changes include: The most visible change is the first, the pushbuttons and popup menu changes. The blue pushpins are ...

Whereas Google Maps seems more interested in getting you to a destination, Bing, by contrast, has seemed more focused on helping you see whether or not you want to be there.

Bing Maps moves beyond Silverlight and AJAX with the new native WPF Control, which enables you to build interactive tools for visualizing geographical data on the desktop. Released in January, version ...

The new Bing Maps Beta adds an immersive new viewing mode and an “application gallery” to further enhance its virtual perspective of the world, Microsoft announced Wednesday. Bing Maps now offers a ...

It’s tempting to compare Bing Maps Beta, Microsoft’s revamped mapping service, to Google Maps. And the two services do have plenty of common features. But once you start exploring Bing Maps ...

Using the Bing Maps Distance Matrix API is easy enough, with GET or POST RESTful requests. More complex queries use asynchronous requests, though they only support driving with a start time.

Unlike Google Maps, which has a dedicated app available on both iOS and Android, Bing Maps does not have a standalone app specifically designed for iOS or Android devices.

Here at Where 2.0, Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft (at right) – and the lead developer on Bing Maps – showed off Bing Maps’ Foursquare integration. While still in the a limited release ...

After we decided how we wanted to spend our week, my job was to plan/map it out. It soon became a study in the differences between Google Maps and Bing Maps – the two sites I relied on most heavily.