August 10, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
There could be a serious threat to mobile phone service if new software from Pinger catches on. The application lets users make phone calls and send texts on a smartphone without mobile service — or without a mobile phone at all.
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Tags: application, calls, iPad, ipod, mobile phone, Pinter, Software, Textfree, texting
June 24, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Employees who text while driving can have a huge impact on a company’s bottom line. From higher insurance premiums to lawsuits and liability for accidents and injuries, the cost can be staggering.
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Tags: costs, driving, Pew, study, texting
April 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Any parent who pays a teenagers’ cell phone bill probably already knows, but nearly one third of American teens send more than 100 text messages a day.
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Tags: American, kids, Pew Internet and American Life Project, study, texting
January 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
How many morons drive an 18-wheeler down a busy highway and tap out a text message at the same time? The answer: enough to prompt a federal ban on the practice.
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Tags: ban, driving, Federal, Ray LaHood, texting, U.S. Transportation Secretary
December 30, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
An executive order that bans texting while driving for federal workers was signed in October by President Obama and took effect today.
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Tags: ban, driving, executive order, obama, texting
November 6, 2009 by Sam Narisi
We all know that driving and text-messaging don’t mix. And the topic has gotten national recognition, with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently calling it a “national epidemic.”
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Tags: driving, texting
October 5, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Every day, millions of people in the United States send text messages while driving. For many, the practice is coming to a screeching halt, because the country’s biggest employer has banned it.
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Tags: ban, cellphone, driving, employees, Federal, law, President Obama, texting, workers
August 27, 2009 by Sam Narisi
Most people at least understand that using a cell phone while driving is dangerous. But this employee apparently had no problem with using two phones behind the wheel.
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Tags: cell phone, drivers, talking, texting, truck
September 29, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
California’s usually in the vanguard of new laws and regulations. And now that the state’s passed a no-texting while driving law, you can assume others will follow suit.
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Tags: cell phone, drivers, fines, law, mobile, texting, violation
