Texting Archive
Consumer
Yahoo Livetext Yahoo! Inc. announced Wednesday Yahoo Livetext, a new app for one-to-one live video texting on iPhone and Android phones. Yahoo Livetext blends the convenience and ease
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Surveys
Although large percentages of Americans of all ages say that driving while sending or checking texts or emails is unsafe, unsettling numbers of drivers in all age ranges
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Americas
The AT&T simulator is an interactive, 3-D console akin to an arcade-style racing game. Participants sit behind the wheel of the simulator and try to maneuver around obstacles
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Feature
U.S. Department of Transportation statistics show cell phones are involved in 1.6 million auto crashes each year. These crashes cause a half-million injuries and take 6,000 lives annually.
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Consumer
Video texting solutions provider Glide has released Glide 2.0 for iPhone, an update of the instant video messaging app. The company’s proprietary, patent-pending streaming video technology lets users
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Americas
Esurance, a direct-to-consumer insurance company, is rolling out a new teen driver safety program that can prevent teens from texting while driving and give parents feedback about their
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Americas
T-Mobile announced Wednesday a multi-year partnership with international singer, songwriter and Grammy Award-winning music icon, Shakira. The new collaboration between Shakira and T-Mobile officially kicked off at a
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Americas
DoSomething.org, Sprint, and Toyota have joined forces to fight distracted driving this summer through a unique campaign, returning for its third year: Thumb Wars. Currently, many campaigns on
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Americas
Cellular One in Texas, Louisiana, and Montana joined forces with Nashville Recording Artist, Rachel Holder this week to promote driving safety utilizing video and audio Public Service Announcements
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Americas
Just in time for the busiest travel season of the year, insurance company State Farm has released its annual research report on distracted driving, with troubling results. Though
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Americas
Most teens know using a mobile phone while driving is a bad idea, but nearly 60 percent of high school seniors admitted in a recent CDC study that
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Americas
Sixty percent of young adult drivers (16-24) said they have texted while driving, according to a national survey released by the Ad Council. To educate young adult drivers
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Americas
Texting may be a killer app on mobile phones, but it can actually kill drivers who text while driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that
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