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Released: July 21, 2010

Safety-driven software to block texting while driving

Source: Larry Copeland, USA Today

Technology is emerging that could solve a growing menace on the nation’s highways: texting while driving.

A Georgia company today announces a partnership with an Irving, Texas, firm to provide software to government agencies and businesses that disables the texting, e-mailing and Web-browsing functions of a wireless phone in moving vehicles. Manage Mobility, an Alpharetta-based management and logistics firm, will provide technology developed by WebSafety Inc.

“We are being asked by our customers what to do on this sort of thing, especially since October ... when President Obama issued the federal order banning federal employees from texting while operating government-owned vehicles,” says Stacy Chisum, Manage Mobility’s vice president of sales.

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