NEW ORLEANS, March 19, 2003 — Today at the Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference 2003, Microsoft Corp. highlighted the growing developer demand for its MapPoint® location-based services platform.

Boston is a walkable city with more than adequate public transportation. It is also a difficult place to keep or even park a car. So it's not surprising that car ownership is not a priority for many ...

Need to put a mapping data in your application? Microsoft’s first commercial Web service may just be the solution you are looking for. This year at TechEd, Microsoft launched MapPoint Web services ...

MapPoint Location Server (MLS), announced at the start of the CTIA Wireless show in Atlanta and Microsoft's Mobile Developer Conference in San Francisco, starts at $8,000 for 500,000 transactions and ...

* Microsoft offers MapPoint online map as a Web service There are a number of things I am fascinated by: clocks and watches, old copies of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and maps. And if there is ...

Location-based Web services will play an increasingly important role as handheld devices gain carrier-based and GPS positioning capabilities. You can expect Microsoft, other map providers, and ...

MapPoint .NET is a perfect candidate for a Web service because location data constantly changes. New streets get built, addresses change as people and businesses move, new points of interests emerge, ...

MapPoint Web Service 3.5, which was formally unveiled on Tuesday, allows solution providers and systems integrators to integrate location-based data into corporate applications and present ...

Performance monitoring for Microsoft's MapPoint Web services is an early application of Computer Associates' (CA's) Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) product announced this week.

No matter how virtualized our businesses become it is hard to avoid dealing with the real world. For one reason or another someone – your customers, suppliers, or just the postman (er, sorry, ...