Another Google-dodging feature in the new browser: Highlighting a street address on a Web page launches a map, with the default set to Microsoft's Live Maps (though you can change this default to Google Maps).

FORBES: Magazine Article

Now, we can live with a browser or Google Maps with no pinch-to-zoom, but not having a hardware keyboard hamstrings this device in other ways.

ENGADGET: Nexus One review

Of the 5.6 million people with flood insurance coverage, roughly 1 million get it for less than half the true price, because they live in houses built before flood hazard maps were created.

FORBES: What Hurricane Sandy Teaches Us About Medicaid, Medicare

The points are bought with real dollars, and used to purchase online content such as new maps, levels or games on Xbox Live.

FORBES: Connect

Live Nation, for example, talked about including maps of stadium layouts in the printing of tickets, while Yahoo suggested a daily personalized news service.

FORBES: Web-Connected Printing: HP's Prints Charming?

The connected Audi MIB system powers Audi connect, which enables live updates of Google Earth imagery complete with Google Maps Street View 360 degree panoramas.

ENGADGET: Audi to take NVIDIA powered MIB systems global, drive Tegra through Asian, North American markets

If you're trying to find the best cell phone network where you live, don't just rely on carrier coverage maps or speed claims -- which are often based on theoretical maximum output from cell towers.

CNN: Report: Verizon offers nation's fastest 4G service

Nowadays, hybrid movies that merge live action with computer animation to produce three-dimensional digital maps of their real-life actors' body movements include lots of fine-grained information about expression.

ECONOMIST: Animation takes on a whole new reality

Yes, I can use Google to find images of Pluto that are just as good as what Apple Maps can offer me of the place where I live.

FORBES: iOS 6 Maps Make Me Feel Like I Live On Pluto