Google Maps helps drivers avoid traffic jam

According to Google official blog, a new feature of Google Maps for mobile provides people in US real-time traffic information and helps choose the quickest route so that drivers could avoid annoying traffic jam. Google Maps for mobile beta will display all possible routes and expected driving time, and uses red, green and yellow to [...]

How to stop Find My iPhone working

Since Apple released Find My iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, stories about people recovered their iOS device are everywhere. Here are two of them. 1 According to Straits Times, one Singapore woman was robbed and lost her iPhone, and Singapore police got her handset back within 48 hours and arrested the robber with the help of Find My [...]

Spy on cell phones now possible

We used to see someone boast of spying on any cell phone, saying that their cell phone spy software could listen to others calls and read their messages, well you know that’s not true. But this time, you should be aware, someone could listen in. Some days ago, German security expert Karsten Nohl showed in [...]

6 apps to obtain LAC & CellID for GSM tracking

In order to determine the location of your cell phone using cell towers, you need to know the LAC (Location Area Code) and CellID of the cell tower your cell phone is currently connected to. Then you can enter the LAC, CellID and other data to locate your handset location, this is how cell tower [...]

Real time Android & iPhone flight tracker – Plane finder AR

Last month, a British firm developed and released a flight tracking app for Apple iPhone and Google Android cell phones called plane finder, when you point the back of your cell phone at the sky, it can show the position, height, speed, the airline, flight number, departure point, destination and even the likely course of [...]

Cell phone locating company Skyhook wireless sued Google

The US cell phone tracking company Skyhook wireless recently filed a lawsuit against Google for interfering with its business and for patent infringement, asking millions of Dollars in compensation. Skyhook claimed that Google forced Motorola to ditch Skyhook’s cell phone tracking technology in its Android Smartphones, and that Google’s mobile phone location tracking technology is [...]

Does GPS cell phone tracking really work

Every day, people write to me, asking to help recover or track their lost or stolen cell phones after reading my blog. They usually give me a phone number, or their IMEI number and email. Well I usually do not reply to these types of inquiries as it serves no purpose. So does GPS mobile [...]