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The root of America’s health crisis is bad habits formed in childhood. To protect children from harm, parents are keeping kids indoors, where they get sick, watch TV and form lifelong habits of screen ...

Today's smartphones make easy work of directions and route guidance, but that doesn't mean you need to ditch your dedicated ...

Most modern technology, including smartphones, runs on GPS. But the system might be more vulnerable to failures than you think. The U.S. lacks backup geolocation technology, meaning outages or ...

A Garmin GPS unit is shown inside a vehicle in Tampa, Fla. The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that ...

Two phone companies recently added a global positioning feature to cell phones, which allows friends to locate each other with a push of a button, to the pleasure of protective parents but the chagrin ...

Jenea Phillips says that two years ago, she received a text from her daughter that her school was in lockdown when a student brought a gun onto campus. Her daughter grabbed a pair of scissors to use ...

The package, which uses Sprint Nextel's cell phones and network, furnishes students resources to manage their academic and social lives. An example cited by Rave: Students can identify the GPS ...