Sprint Nextel said Thursday it is offering a new application that will let subscribers search for products in nearby retail stores directly from their handsets. The service, which uses embedded GPS ...

In an attempt to attract customers to its cell phone services, Sprint offers GPS for free to those with data plans starting at $20 a month. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter Marguerite Reardon ...

Sprint recently launched both Garmin Mobile and TeleNav for select Sanyo 3G phones that have built-in GPS functionality. Both services provide turn-by-turn directions to your destination, thus no ...

Telecommunications operator Sprint is downplaying a recent report that claims Sprint shared customers’ GPS location information with federal authorities more than 8 million times between September ...

Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing, has made public an audio recording of Sprint/Nextel’s Electronic Surveillance Manager describing ...

There was a time, I suspect, when this news would’ve been a very big deal: Sprint turned over customers’ GPS whereabouts to law enforcement 8 million times over the last year. But today, very few ...

For some kids with overprotective parents, maybe owning a cell phone won’t be so cool after all. Sprint Nextel Corp. launched a service on Thursday allowing parents to track their children with the ...

Sprint today announced Slifter, a mobile phone product search that uses GPS technology to find products at neighborhood stores. Spring is exploiting the advantage it has with GPS technology, which ...

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