Rutrell Yasin is a freelance writer with more than 30 years of experience writing about the application of information technology in business and government. Global positioning system technology is ...

If you've bought a new car in the last few years, you may already have a built-in navigator, which uses GPS (global positioning system) technology and a lilting voice to guide you to your destination ...

Maybe you've even joked about it: Traffic is so bad in the morning that when you turn on your car's GPS the robotic voice should just say, "forget about it - stay at home." To former Ford global vice ...

Ifyou’ve ever used a GPS device for directions, you might already be acquainted with Karen Jacobsen. As the voice of “Australian-English Karen” in Garmin GPS products, she calmly instructs harried ...

Have you ever dialed up your GPS for a long road trip only to be disappointed that the voice on the other end never played center in the NBA? Well those days of sadness are over, as Waze navigation ...

When dedicated GPS units replaced paper maps, it felt revolutionary. Now, there's no shortage of vastly superior smartphone navigation apps. Here's how modern apps outshine the GPS units of yesteryear ...

Ever wished your car could talk like the TransAm did in the adventure TV series Knight Rider from the 1980s? Well, you could get the exact same voice as KITT’s thanks to NavTones. The company has ...

Smartphones have GPS to get you where you need to go, and most vehicles offer a built-in navigation system as standard or optional equipment. But plenty of older or entry-level cars on the road lack ...

Theresa Troeckler didn’t know the voice on the other end of the phone. Whoever it was, they told her to check underneath the back of her car for a black box that shouldn’t be there. What she found was ...