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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’re so dependent on our cell phones and their navigation apps that we don’t even think about directions anymore. But, what ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Research out of the University of Tokyo is using cell phone GPS data to map out where people go to in the middle of a disaster. You probably have an idea of where you might run when the big one ...

The TruSense GPS Pendant makes for an easy, relatively inexpensive way to keep tabs on a elderly loved one who’s living alone, but the lack (for now, anyway) of an accompanying mobile app is a ...