We look at a pair of apps that allow you to listen in on police, fire, and emergency radio streams from your iPhone or iPod touch. Scanner911 delivers the goods, while Police Scanner 2 disappoints.

He spent several hours programming 13 Chicago Police Department dispatch frequencies into the machine to construct a geographic map of the dispatch zones so he could know from what neighborhood ...

As thousands of people across the U.S. protest against police brutality, police-scanner apps have surged in popularity. One such app, 5-0 Radio Police Scanner, shot up the charts to become the ...

Police scanner Facebook pages, as well as other Facebook pages informally sharing news and gossip in communities all across Iowa and the rest of the country, have become fairly commonplace in ...

U.S. smartphone users are downloading police scanner apps in record numbers amid protests taking place across the country in the wake of George Floyd's murder, according to mobile-app data ...

Download one of the free radio programming apps from the interwebs and look for a few programming guides - with an hour of research you too can be felony free and enjoying these inexpensive and ...

After the explosions yesterday at the Boston Marathon, police departments used social media to send out immediate updates.

Downloads of police scanner apps, tools for private communication and mobile safety apps hit record numbers this past weekend in the U.S., amid continued nationwide protests over the police ...

The New York Police Department is spending $500 million on a new radio system it calls more reliable and secure. But the public will no longer be able to monitor what officers are doing minute to ...