MS Live Local
Driving directions and local listings can be sent to a mobile device. Screen cap. Maps or links to maps are not included when an address/phone number is sent via SMS. If you use Live Mobile from a phone/device maps are provided for local listings and directions.
Btw, MapQuest has offered some form of mobile/wireless service since 1999. Here's a page from October 1999 that mentions the availability of real time traffic info, a service that's now back in vogue. We've also seen mentions of MapQuest offering wireless tools in one form or another back to 2000. Here's a news release from 2001 about MapQuest for wireless PDA's. For the online historians out there, don't forget that MapQuest began offering aerial imagery back in
2001. It returned late in 2006.
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