Google can track your location even if your GPS is off. Discover how Wi-Fi networks and mobile towers can pinpoint you, and ...

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

Google Maps remains one of the best navigation apps thanks to its detailed mapping, real-time traffic information, Google Assistant integration, public transit routes, cycle travel modes, and robust ...

Many smartphone users assume that turning off GPS completely hides their location. However, Google can still estimate where ...

Google is gunning for a piece of the GPS turn-by-turn market with a new driving direction app for Google Android handsets. The move is a direct assault on GPS market leaders Garmin, TomTom, and ...

If Android Auto navigation apps, be they Google Maps or Waze, lose tracking all of a sudden, there’s a good chance the whole thing comes down to a GPS problem that others are struggling with as well.

My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, ...

Turning off GPS doesn’t completely hide your location. Google can still estimate where you are using Wi-Fi, mobile towers, ...

Well, Google‘s done it again: Tossed a monkey wrench inside a well-oiled, profitable machine, and gummed it up good. Of course, I’m talkin g out the company’s foray into the turn-by-turn GPS ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. According to users on several forums and across the web, the new Nexus 7 is currently experiencing GPS issues.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel — you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second. There is no time division as in ...