Bing versus Google Maps: Voice navigation compared

We tested Bing's voice navigation alongside Google’s Android offering. (Credit: CNET) We’ve been using Google’s voice-guided driving directions on an Android phone since October, but we didn’t have too many equivalent apps to compare it with until Microsoft released its own voice navigation service for Bing last week for Windows phones.

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Firefox Mobile for Android? Meet the prealpha (we did)

Mozilla’s first stab at Firefox for Android is rough and unstable, but it’s a start. (Credit: Mozilla) Android users who relish being on the cutting bleeding edge of mobile software are going to love getting their peepers and fingers on Mozilla’s latest foray into Firefox for mobile phones. Late Tuesday, the open-source browsermaker released a prealpha version of Firefox for Android .

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Google turns on Android maps voice navigation for Ireland, U.K.

Google Maps with navigation for Ireland and the U.K. (Credit: Google) This is a true story: Two weeks ago I’m zipping along in southern England in the back seat of a silver VW Golf, listening for the better part of an hour and a half while my sister reads aloud directions to the car’s driver from the screen of an HTC Touch. The instructions are specific (”Turn left in 100 feet”) but fruitless; we flip a U on the muddy one-track road and head back toward the village to blindly pick our way to our obscure destination, a farmhouse that brews traditional cider, using just wits and luck.

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Marvel Comics, iPad team-up reviewed

The largest comic book publisher in the United States has joined forces with the hottest device so far in 2010 to create a seamless comic book reading experience. Marvel on the iPad is slick and sexy, as users have come to expect from high-end apps on Apple devices, but it’s not the digital panacea that comic book readers or publishers have hoped for. At least, not yet.

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Digital comics store-reader combo LongBox hands-on

After a much longer run as a private beta than originally intended, the digital comic book store and comics reader called LongBox has finally opened its doors. The public beta is available for Windows and Mac , and although it’s still quite rough in some spots, it represents a major breakthrough for the print-centric medium. The default main window of LongBox is a massive comic book information feed.

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Star syncing comes to Google Maps for Android

pdiv class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-right” style=”width: 270px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100203/GoogleMaps_Mobile_Android_Starring_270×339.png” alt=”Google Maps for Android get starring” width=”270″ height=”339″ / p class=”image-caption”What#39;s new in Google Maps for Android? Star ‘power.’/p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Google)/span /div/p pIt’s standard fare for Google to incubate a mobile app feature on one platform before rolling it out to the others.

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