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Vibes deal offers Bulls scores, stats via text

Vibes Media, a Chicago-based mobile marketing company, has teamed with the Chicago Bulls basketball team to develop a mobile marketing campaign that allows fans to text in to receive real-time game updates, scores and player statistics on their mobile phones. Get the full story »

Survey: People talking, texting less while driving

Texting-Driving-Web.jpgA motorist drives while speaking on a cell phone in Boston on March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

By Sandra M. Jones | U.S. drivers say they are talking and texting less while driving then
they did a year ago as they become more aware of the risks, according to
a new survey.

Four out of 10 drivers who admit to texting behind the wheel say they do
it less often than they did last year, according to the annual “Driving
While Distracted” survey from Nationwide Insurance.

The survey found that 20 percent of drivers with cell phones say they
text while driving. Among drivers under age 35, that number jumps to 47
percent.

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