Cell phone locator services can track your employees in the field, allowing you to confirm that they are at their assigned tasks. Because most people carry cell phones, they provide a convenient ...

Sprint Nextel, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, plans on Thursday to introduce a wireless service to help parents find their children as it makes a bid to expand its presence in the family market. The ...

Until now, parents had to deal with a separate company or buy special equipment to track their children through their cell phones. Sprint Nextel Corp. becomes the first U.S. wireless provider to sell ...

Cell phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field--and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result. On the leading edge of the trend is Nextel Communications.

Mobile-phone companies are going to have to do a better job of helping locate people in emergencies if the Federal Communications Commission decides to impose stricter testing standards. It should.