AT&T Hackathon to help prevent Texting and Driving
AT&T in conjunction with their #ItCanWait campaign held an event for developers to come together and work on new applications to help prevent texting and driving. The writer Jared Morgan covered the event for the Santa Monica Patch.
Brief excerpt of the article is below for the full article check it out here on the Santa Monica Batch.
The campaign is called “It Can Wait” and it’s AT&T’s effort to keep motorists off of their cell phones while driving.
The telecommunications company hosted a hackathon on Friday and Saturday, bringing together professional software developers, amateur hackers, graphic artists and all-around techies at office-share CoLoft in Santa Monica to compete for a chance to win up to $20,000.
“The focus here is to encourage developers to come up with a solution that can help reduce and or eliminate texting while driving,” said Alex Donn, senior marketing manager of the AT&T developer program….
Follow @ATTdeveloper and watch #ATTHack and #ItCanWait on Twitter for more information.
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In this video: Watch interviews with Geoff Hollingworth, head of innovation at Ericsson; Alex Donn, senior marketing manager of the AT&T developer program; Tim Anglade, head of developer programs and evangelism at Apigee; and developers Grigor Karavardanyan, Dubem Enyekwe andMaxwell Cabral.






