There's a good chance that you are, right now, carrying around a tiny device that's picking up faint radio signals from space and keeping track of your location. It's a Global Positioning System -- or ...
GPS accuracy relies on Einstein's relativity theories to correct satellite timing errors that would otherwise cause 6+ mile ...
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 ...
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 ...
You hear a lot about how great cell phone GPS is. Tech pundits blather endlessly about the amazing new features and capabilities of cell phone GPS (guilty as charged!) And you even shelled out extra ...
The study used cellphone pings to track the actual speed of cars when the drivers were stopped. Cell phone GPS data collected from inside moving vehicles shows what civil rights groups have long ...
Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...