Google has been giving companies in its business listings ways to offer digital coupons to visitors since 2007. It wasn’t until this week, though, that Google could bring the same coupons to mobile users. It works like this: Businesses add a coupon to their listing in Google’s Local Business Center. When you search a Google …

The Twitter service with the cutesy raccoon mascot is making a new home on BlackBerry and Google Android phones. The free Seesmic, like its proliferate rivals, lets you read, manage, and compose Twitter messages much more flexibly than you can do from Twitter’s Web site. We crash-tested both mobile versions as soon as we heard the news. Seesmic on Android …

There are plenty of ways for frequent travelers to check on their flight’s status long before they leave the house or hotel, but fewer that alert you when delays occur, and only one we’ve seen that predicts airline tardiness. That app is FlightCaster, which costs $7.99 on iPhone and BlackBerry, with Android support next. FlightCaster predicts flight delays 6 hours …

Vringo isn’t one to let its video ringtone application languish in beta. After about a month and a half after Android users could begin playing around with the beta, the Vringo app for Android (story) has popped into the Android market. Unlike the standard ringtone concept, where you assign the ditty you hear every time a certain contact phones you, …

There is a handful of VoIP apps for Android that can make free calls over Wi-Fi and 3G, and as of Wednesday, the list grows by one. Fring 1.0 is an all-in-one communicator that pairs support for chat services like Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, and Twitter with voice services like Skype and SIP. Fring also offers a low-cost service for …

Google Earth made a splash when it spun onto the iPhone last October, giving users the capability to explore the virtual globe for free from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection. But without some practical mapping features, like turn-by-turn navigation and street maps, Google Earth was largely a discovery tool that didn’t have much real-world impact. This week, Google Earth …

It’s been about a month since we got a peek at the first generation of the Slacker Radio streaming music app for the Android platform. We liked what we saw. On Thursday, other Android users can also cast their own vote about Slacker Radio 1.0 for Android by downloading it for free from the Market application on their Android smartphone. …

Asurion If the list of features added to the forthcoming Android 2.0 operating system (code-named Eclair) leaves you drooling, there is a way to get a taste of one of the goodies coming in Google’s Eclair release. No, we’re not sending you a Motorola Droid (live review). Rather, Asurion’s free AddressBook beta, newly released in the Android Market, is a …

Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Even with the most practiced digits, composing long e-mail on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard is the slow, awkward pits compared with typing on a desktop keyboard. However, Google released a small new feature on Monday just for long-winded iPhone e-mail authors that makes typing lengthy Gmail messages easier on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Before, the …

CNET I know I’m not the only one staring at my clunky T-Mobile G1 right now, willing it to transform into Motorola’s new Cliq. I’ve never been a fan of the G1’s thick slab of chin rest that came as part of Google and HTC’s debut of the Android platform. And, in my opinion, the plastic slug never did Android …