Saturday, January 21, 2006

Topic of the Day: Virtual India

Apologize. It is out of the topic for this blog but I found that I should share this.

Microsoft is never shy to copy & yet bold to call it their research. In this case they copied Google Earth technology,extended it to be multi-lingual and call it Microsoft Virtual Earth technology. Virtual India is built out of this (copied??) technology with Govt of India. The map is now online & currently supports street level searches for Bangalore city alone. Still in proto-typing phase. Yeah copying without patent violation takes time.

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