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

A Georgia company [has announced] a partnership with an Irving, Texas, firm to supply 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 supply technology developed by WebSafety Inc.

“We are being asked by our customers what to do on that sort

of thing, particularly 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.

Thirty states and the District of Columbia have banned the practice, but the laws are difficult to enforce. The national movement to discourage it — aimed mostly at young drivers — is spreading to corporate employees and the U.S. government.

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