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One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here. Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike myself who just did a feature-by-feature comparison Gear Digest make a firm ...

Version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile (WLS) has been released. Read the announcement here which contains screenshots and in this case a picture really does tell a thousand words. Here's the list of new features:Get movie timesSearch for restaurants and see ratingsWLS will now cache onto your storage card if you have ...

Google have created quite a stir with their Google Maps for Mobile tool (my colleague Keni Barwick has talked about it here) but did you know that Microsoft have had a very similar tool called Windows Live Search for Mobile available for alot longer? These two products are the best examples that I can think of to illustrate the ...

The blogosphere is alive today with news of the HTC Touch smartphone. I'm an unashamed fan of Windows Mobile but I won't be buying myself one of these. Why not? Because I don't believe that touchscreens are a killer feature for mobile phones. Touchscreens have been with us for some time now (I had a Windows Mobile touchscreen ...

Blog king Robert Scoble recently posted a mildly critical opinion of Live Maps in comparison to Google Maps. That isn't what got my attention though and isn't why I'm posting this. The discussion in the comments section got round to brand value on the internet and Robert stated: "Brand doesn’t mean *** ...