(IDG) -- Thanks to car PCs and Global Positioning System receivers in wireless phones and handhelds, location services soon will eagerly offer roadside assistance, traffic updates, and route planning ...

You understand that your phone knows where you’re located. This is how GPS works, how Find My Friends sees your location, and why you get local ads on Facebook and Google. Like other data on ...

The dark side of tracking your partner’s mobile phone - IN FOCUS: Tracking apps like Find My Friends are becoming increasingly common in relationships for safety reasons and logistical ease ...

Oct. 28, 2002 — Back in June, Nokia began tracking shipments of cell phones to see if using RFID and GPS technology could reduce theft. The project, part of the U.K. government’s chipping of Goods ...

For the parents who still want to be able to keep track of their children, 7 On Your Side has some of the alternative options ...

The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that law enforcement officers don’t need a warrant to track the location of a subject via the GPS data from a cell phone. The Tuesday ruling ...

The fire department, along with state and local police, used cell phone tracking software to find the two lost hikers before the rain started. “If you do get lost while in the woods, be sure to ...

The fire department, along with state and local police, used cell phone tracking software to find the two lost hikers before the rain started.