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 Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

If you liked the social GPS features that Helio offers on both its Drift and Ocean phones—you know, the one that gives you a list of where all your friends are—Sprint’s partnering up with loopt to ...