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 ...

While GPS technology can be very precise in ideal conditions, cell phones often are taken into non-ideal areas -- deep inside buildings, with a lot of walls and roofs blocking the cell phone network ...

Thanks to the an almost undocumented feature on the Nokia 6110 Navigator, we unwittingly racked up over AU$50 in data charges the first month we used it. Read on to find out how to avoid our fate.

FRANKFURT, July 29 (Reuters) - Global sales of phones equipped with GPS chips, which use orbiting satellites to pinpoint the location of a phone user, will show strong growth in 2009, according to ...

Laws are racing to catch up with technology as phones lead to more and more auto accidents, but does that mean you're not able to use your phone's map function?

Annual shipments of GPS-enabled phones will grow rapidly over the period 2008-2012 according to Research and Markets. GPS phones will account for 37 percent of all shipments (535 million), according ...

Ever since the first telecom engineer figured out how to cram a Global Positioning System receiver into a cellphone, people have worried about how "They" might exploit those features. Either the feds ...

Nextel has launched a wireless global position system (GPS) platform that allows government agencies to create location based services. The Nextel Wireless GPS Platform is an application development ...