You hear a lot about how great cell phone GPS is. Tech pundits blather endlessly about the amazing new features and capabilities of cell phone GPS (guilty as charged!) And you even shelled out extra ...

An automobile driver recently was held responsible for crashing a rental car into a train after following global positioning system instructions that put his rental car onto the train tracks. This ...

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — Yesterday I upgraded my old-and-busted BlackBerry Pearl for the new hotness: The BlackBerry Pearl 8110, which has built-in GPS. So far I’ve found the experience of using the ...

Avi Greengart has what may be the funniest — and truest — explanation of why GPS on cell phones is now probably the most desired feature on mobiles. “It’s really the best of both worlds, because women ...

Global Positioning System (GPS) capability is one of the most popular new features for current and next-generation cell phones. Using the GPS feature and associated firmware, it is possible to ...

Nowadays, it seems like smartphones are used for just about everything, from shopping, maps, and logging health and exercise information, to monitoring technology in homes and offices. Mobile GPS data ...

Most modern technology, including smartphones, runs on GPS. But the system might be more vulnerable to failures than you think. The U.S. lacks backup geolocation technology, meaning outages or ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IAC/InterActiveCorp. said it launched on Friday a new mobile application for its Ask.com Web search service to help consumers find friends, shops and services based on their ...

Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...

GPS position determination systems operate by measuring the signals propagated from synchronised clocks carried on a constellation of (currently 30) satellites in earth orbit at a height of 20,200 km.