Cell phone companies didn't originally want to put GPS receivers into cell phones. But several years ago, the Federal Communications Commission required them to come up with a way to locate their ...

GPS and mobile Internet are high on the wish lists of cell phone users looking to upgrade to new phones. In part, the interest is due to a wave of $99-a-month plans by carriers that includes ...

More Than 550 Million GPS-Enabled Handsets Will Ship by 2012, Says ABI Research In the wake of personal navigation devices’ success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board ...

If you have an old phone that isn’t hooked up to a mobile data plan, you should still be able to use the phone as a GPS in ...

Zephr has emerged from stealth with radical plans to dramatically improve GPS — using cell phones with zero hardware modifications. Mobile devices have abysmal GPS accuracy, which prevents ...

Jenea Phillips says that two years ago, she received a text from her daughter that her school was in lockdown when a student brought a gun onto campus.