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 announced the availability of TeleNav GPS Navigator on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network, making it the first GPS Java-enabled handset offering available on both the Nextel National and Sprint ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sprint Nextel is extending the push-to-talk capability of its Nextel handsets so subscribers can send voicemail messages to e-mail addresses along with detailed information about their locations. 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 ...