"The core of all these apps--map display, waypoint search, tracking and routing--is the same, " notes TrailBehind Chief Executive Andrew Johnson.

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After restarting your browser the plug-in will display a people map in the sidebar - just use the view menu to switch that back to history or bookmarks if you want to.

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In the grandstand, two anthropologists hosted an interactive display, "Map Your Jazzfest, " featuring 100 hand-drawn impressions of the festival, no two alike.

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Microsoft mentioned Via's mobile processing road map specifically, and LCD tech is clearly advancing to a point where a 7-inch display isn't as much of a burden on a handheld form factor.

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The size of the game terrain would normally be limited by available system resources, since just the contours of a single map can weigh up to 128MB -- too burdensome for most systems to store, process and display in real-time.

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In addition to letting users dedicate different tasks to different screens, Mr Martynov suggested users might want to display important information such as an airline boarding pass or a map on the e-ink screen to take advantage of the fact that the technology only uses power to refresh - and not maintain - its image.

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With its bright display and pinch-and-zoom touch screen, the iPad feels like a "giant interactive map, " Ostrowski says.

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