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GPS Now Helps You Avoid Speed Traps
Source: ABC News

So Atkinson added Speedtrap, a feature that combines drivers' tips with Microsoft Virtual Earth to identify speed traps - either a real, live cop with a radar gun or one of those damned cameras - throughout the U.S.

The World On Your Desktop
Source: The Economist

As the internet becomes intertwined with the real world, the resulting geoweb has many uses.EARTH materialises, rotating majestically in front of his face. Hiro reaches out and grabs it. He twists it around so he's looking at Oregon.

Microsoft launches Google Earth killer
Source: CNET

Microsoft is about to upgrade its mapping product, Live Local, to Microsoft Virtual Earth, a competitor to Google Earth. [See news story.] We got a live preview of the product a few days ago and will have a hands-on review shortly. These impressions are based on the demo.

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