When dedicated GPS units replaced paper maps, it felt revolutionary. Now, there's no shortage of vastly superior smartphone ...

Imagine a world without toll cameras and giant metal gantries above the road. No, tolls aren’t going away, but some of your privacy could be. The Washington State Transportation Commission completed ...

Standalone GPS units were once must-have upgrades for road warriors seeking to master complicated city streets and discover new offroading paths through the wilderness. Seemingly overnight, GPS ...

NEW DELHI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - India is pushing tech giants to make smartphones compatible with its home-grown navigation system within months, worrying the likes of Samsung, Xiaomi and Apple who fear ...

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 ...

No audio available for this content. The Google Smartphone Decimeter Challenge (SDC) competition, co-sponsored by the Institute of Navigation (ION), took place this summer. For the competition, teams ...

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...