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. If beta builds are for testing and feedback with minimal instability …

Google’s mobile development team has had a busy couple days fine-tuning what it likes to call its “iterative mobile Web,” a phrase that, in plain English, extends to all the Google sites you can access from some iPhones and Android smartphones. Earlier, it migrated a better search result for business listings from Google.com for the desktop to Google.com from the …

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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”) …

Three days after its late Monday launch, Opera Software spread the news that its server-assisted Opera Mini browser for the iPhone capped over a million downloads the first day of widespread availability, which was Tuesday. That’s 1,023,380 downloads to be exact, according to Apple’s end-of-day download count. Good enough for us; cue Dr. Evil. Opera went on in a press …

Google is continuing the slow and steady march of improvements to its Android-, iPhone-, and now iPad-optimized site. On Tuesday, the company pushed out a handful of small changes to the way Gmail.com handles new messages. An update to Gmail.com for Android and iPhone lets you quickly add, remove, and manage contacts in the compose screen. Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET …

Now playing: Watch this: Skype Mobile for BlackBerry and Android 1:29 Last Tuesday at CTIA, Skype and Verizon  jointly announced the Skype Mobile application is coming to select BlackBerry and Android phones on Verizon’s network. While only nine phones can currently run the app, Verizon and Skype are sure to add more phones to the mix. So if you don’t have …

Here’s an interesting solution to a problem you may not have known you had. How to share the moments of your life, live, with others. Knocking Live Video is a free video-sharing app for iPhone, and now for Android, that broadcasts live video from one smartphone to another. There’s nothing new about live streaming video on these platforms or others. …

Ever since California passed its no-texting-while-driving law, we’ve seen a steady stream of mobile apps aimed at overcoming the temptation. Most are marketed to parents of rebellious teens and lock down certain phone features, like texting, e-mail, and placing calls after sensing movement of 10 miles per hour or so. TextArrest is one such freemium application we’ve seen at CTIA …

Now playing: Watch this: Opera Mini 5 for iPhone 1:00 LAS VEGAS–Opera Software submitted its mobile proxy-based browser, Opera Mini 5, to the iPhone App Store this week, but whether Apple accepts Opera’s proposed alternative to Safari is still up in the air. Either verdict could benefit Opera’s hand. If Apple accepts the browser, Opera wins and can begin making …