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The Mandown blog has the following info : "It's now official, ESRI has released ArcGIS 9.3 beta to participants in the beta program. We have been actively working with the ESRI development teams on testing ArcGIS 9.3 and this has been great. We already have done some pretty cool stuff and submitted some great feedback. ESRI is really looking forward to beta testers feeding back bugs and other comments on the latest release."

For more information as well as the official announcement, please visit the Mandown blog.

The Mandown blog has an entry titled "ArcGIS 9.3 To Offer Full Support For Microsoft Windows Vista". From their summary : "Redlands, California—ESRI's upcoming ArcGIS 9.3 software release will fully support the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system across the ArcGIS family of products. The new support now makes ArcGIS fully compatible with Vista for increased reliability."

For the full press announcement, and the relative links, please visit the Mandown blog.

The what is special about Geospatial has information about what's new in the upcoming ArcGIS release. Here is a snippet of their blog, summarizing what they believe is most important.

• REST and JavaScript APIs
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Services Support
• PostgreSQL Support
• Collaborative Design Activity (COLLADA) File Support
• Improved Performance
• Better Diagnostics
• Enhanced Security
• More Documentation

For a lot more informationa nd the official announcement link, please visit the blog.

The Google Earth blog has a video demonstrating a Virtual Globe (ala Google Earth) all done on the iPhone from the last Where 2.0 conference. From the articles summary : "One of the most interesting exhibits I saw was by a Boulder, Colorado company called earthscape. They showed a number of interesting things (see below), but what really impressed me was when their CEO Tom Churchill pulled out his iPhone to show me how they're working on a 3D Earth application for the iPhone."

Please visit the Google Earth blog to see the video and read the rest of the article.

Spatially Adjusted links to information on the freshly released version 1.2 of the ArcGIS JavaScript API. The major new and updated items: "Support for Image Services, Support for Dojo 1.2., More flexibility with cached and dynamic layers, Refreshable map layers, Improved graphics performance, Projection of dynamic map services on the fly, New methods for the geometry service and Bug fixes" See previous stories below.

Mandown informs us version 1.3 of the ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API are now available. From mandown: "There are a bundle of new features. Some of these include: * Support for Dojo 1.2.3 * Layer Extensibility * Error Handling * Enhanced Map Layer Management * Other Map Enhancements * I/O Enhancements." See also related stories below.