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Category Archives: Driving While Texting
Summer vacation with Vlingo Super Dialer and the Jabra Cruiser
While I love nearly all gadgets, and certainly all Bluetooth accessories that don’t fight me when I try to pair them up, I recently had a particularly fun experience with the Jabra Cruiser during my annual family summer beach vacation. … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Blackberry, Driving While Texting, Nokia, Smartphones, Vlingo, iPhone, speech recognition, voice recognition
Tagged Speech Recognition, superdialer, vlingo plus
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Fierce Developer Interview with Vlingo’s President & CEO
Each year despite the growing awareness of distracted driving, people continue to endanger themselves and their passengers by typing and reading messages behind the wheel. It appears that TWD laws alone are not going to be enough to solve this … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Blackberry, Driving While Texting, Nokia, Smartphones, Vlingo, iPhone, speech recognition, voice recognition
Tagged mobile, Vlingo
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Vlingo’s Billboard on the San Gabriel Freeway!
Check it out! Vlingo’s first billboard arrives in the LA area! Very exciting. It’s in Rose Hills, CA on the 605 heading south, just past the intersection with 60. Free Vlingo Plus to anyone local who get’s their picture with … Continue reading
Congratulations to Matt Richtel of the NY Times on his Pulitzer Prize
Vlingo would like to offer congratulations to Matt Richtel, technology reporter at the NY Times for his 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for “Driven to Distraction”. Below is an excerpt from the Associate Press. NATIONAL REPORTING: Matt Richtel and … Continue reading
A Safer Way to Text on the Road
The Wall Street Journal posted a story today called “A Safer Way to Text on the Road“. The reporter , Courtney Banks, reviews Vlingo. Check out the video too! We all know that text messaging while driving is dangerous, but … Continue reading
National Teen Driver Safety Week
National Teen Driver Safety Week (NTDSW) has been designated by Congress as a time for communities, schools and families to raise awareness and provide solutions to teen driver crashes, the leading cause of death for teens in the U.S. A … Continue reading
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Vlingo Highlights New Data From Driving While Texting Study as Regulators Consider Legal Action At Distracted Driving Summit
This week, senior transportation officials, elected officials, safety advocates, law enforcement representatives and academics will meet in Washington, DC at the Distracted Driving Summit to address the dangers of text-messaging and other distractions behind the wheel. For the past 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Driving While Texting
Tagged distracted driving, statistics, Texting While Driving
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WSJ: Texting While Driving: Are You an Offender?
Below is an article posted today by Andrew LaVallee called Texting While Driving: Are You an Offender?. This is a follow up article to an earlier post called Firms Racing to End Texting and Driving. See the quote from a … Continue reading
WSJ: Firms Racing to End Texting and Driving
This morning the Wall Street Journal published an article by Andrew LaVallee on the dangers of driving while texting. Vlingo has been included in the article Firms Racing to End Texting and Driving As U.S. regulators step up scrutiny of … Continue reading
TMCNet: Awareness Needed to Prevent Driving While Texting Accidents
TMCnet’s Amy Tierney interviewed Dave Grannan, President & CEO of Vlingo in her article “Awareness Needed to Prevent Driving While Texting Accidents”. Numerous studies have shown that texting while driving is downright dangerous. In fact, a recent poll by the … Continue reading