Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Samsung hopes to have answer to a mother’s biggest fear

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Mothers can now feel a bit more secure with what their teens are doing behind the wheel thanks to Samsung’s new App, Eyes on the Road. The game-like App determines the speed at which a phone is moving. If the phone is moving at a rate of roughly 12 mph or faster, then the App blocks all text, phone, or social media notifications from alerting the driver.  The Samsung App disables the standard texting App and is only available on Smartphones using the Android operating system.
Once a driver has reached a destination (the phone has stopped moving for 10 minutes) the notifications are pushed to the phone. Users receive rewards such as gas vouchers for driving miles while using the App.
Texting behind the wheel is one of the leading causes of car crashes in America. Texting while driving makes a driver 23 times more likely to crash, according to research conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. However, 77 percent of young American adults believe they are able to text and drive “safely.”
Eyes on the Road is solving a real-world problem and so too is Mobile Generated News®.  Most often, viewers do not get to control what they see on the news.  Now, the MoGN App enables news enthusiasts to have a say in the content they see on their televisions, web sites and newspapers. We are trying to enhance the human experience when it comes to news.  Download the Mobile Generated News App and become a Citizen Journalist!  If you are out and about and see news happening, send in your Breaking News.  If you have a story or opinion that’s worth sharing, record it and send it in as well! 
Search for Mobile Generated News in the Apple App Store.  And, when you do that search you will see all of our related affiliate Apps:  Mobile Generated News App for Nationwide coverage; Entravision-Mobile Generated News App, Univision-Mobile Generated News Apps, and Serestar Telemundo-33 Mobile Generated News App.  The family of MoGN Apps are currently available in English and Spanish with French language coming soon!  
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Soon, Univision Owned & Operated TV stations in top markets will debut the Univision-Mobile Generated News App in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Phoenix, Houston, Miami, Raleigh, San Antonio, Austin, Fresno and San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Los Angeles, Houston and Miami are available now!   Start contributing today!
And, stay tuned for new affiliates joining the Mobile Generated News® Network team in 2014.    
Remember, if it is newsworthy, we will post it nationwide and you will see it on the MoGN "Newsfeed" distributed to Broadcast Stations, Newspapers, Web Sites and news organizations across the United States and soon around the World. Mobile Generated News®. Mobile News. Global Views.
─Andrew Kallick, Mobile Generated News®, Los Angeles 

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