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 ...

GPS-enabled, location-based services hold out considerable promise as a valuable revenue generator for wireless carriers. Their extension beyond the realms of the emergency services and into the ...

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 ...

For the last few weeks I’ve been preparing to take on a new position at work, one that would require me to do a substantial amount of travel. Like all road warriors, one of my primary objectives is 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 ...

The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go.

When the Enhanced 911 (E911) mandate was put into place by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), both carriers and device makers fought to cost effectively implement a service that seemed to ...

The root of America’s health crisis is bad habits formed in childhood. To protect children from harm, parents are keeping kids indoors, where they get sick, watch TV and form lifelong habits of screen ...