A new, free service launching in nine metropolitan areas sends travel directions to your cellphone via text message after using voice-recognition technology to determine your current location and where you’d like to go.
Walt pits old reliable MapQuest against Google Local and an enhanced version of Yahoo Maps. Though the newer online mapping services have some fancy features, MapQuest still does the best job.
Edited by Walt and written by Katie Boehret, this is a guide to gadgets, web services and other consumer technologies.
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