With nearly 75% of smartphone owners accessing location-based information, there doesn’t seem to be a standard procedure when it comes to police departments asking service providers for your information.
This collar-mounted gizmo uses GPS to help you track down pets who have roamed too far from home.
– Asus, offering customers having problems with the Transformer Prime tablet’s internal GPS chip an external add-on instead. Reactions have ranged from noting that such an add-on blocks the tablet’s dock connector and appears bulky to calling Asus’ move a “ridiculous solution” that makes the tablet “look idiotic.” Says Asus: “Although the Transformer Prime is not [...]
The problem with these golf GPS devices is that most of them cost north of $300 in an era of smartphones with golf GPS apps that can be had for a song. There’s something to be said about simplicity, though – and battery life.
OnStar’s new service lets you track every single car in your family’s garage, letting you see exactly where everyone is on the Family Link website.
The federal government’s rejection of LightSquared’s ambitious plan to launch a nationwide wireless network is a major setback for hedge fund manager Phil Falcone, who poured billions of dollars into the project. But it also deals a blow to the prospect of more competition in the broadband space, which could have meant more choices for consumers in a market dominated by a few major players.
Waze, the cool navigation app that includes information on traffic, speed traps and other hazards that’s provided by Waze users themselves, now has a Siri-like voice system that’s designed to let you control it without fiddling with the iPhone’s touchscreen.
The idea of a nationwide, open-access wireless 4G broadband network may be a great thing in theory, but in practice, it turns out that there may be one rather big problem with it–especially for anyone who uses a GPS system.
Until last week, I’d never driven an Audi in my life. But when I got to try the new Audi A7 for my latest Technologizer column over on TIME.com, I didn’t have to learn anything new to drive it–everything from the gear shifter to the brakes to the turn signals were similar or identical to [...]
Piracy – in the ship hijacking, non-torrent sense – is on the rise, and real life pirates are getting increasingly sophisticated with their ship-hunting methods.
Squaring off with the U.S. Senate, Apple’s singing a privacy-friendlier song that ought to please location-tracking skeptics—assuming they buy what Cupertino’s selling.
