Experts are reminding drivers to stay safe on the roads as millions pile into their cars for holiday traveling.

AAA says statistics show that “a lot of people still send messages while driving,” even though text bans exist in more than half of the U.S. AAA hopes a new, eyes-free phone application called StartTalking will help replace traditional texting. And it’s free.

ABC affiliate News 12 Phoenix has additional coverage on this endorsement.

Veloxum, a stage 1 ventures portfolio company, today announced Veloxum for VMWare. Veloxum for VMWare actively and continuously optimizes the VMware infrastructure, maximizing performance and increasing workload density as much as 50 percent. Veloxum for VMWare is an out-of-band solution that uses the existing systems and tunes the various components within manufacturer supported settings.

Veloxum’s software measures and then automatically adjusts the manufacturer supplied settings to improve overall system performance. Additional tuning modules are available for: SharePoint, Exchange, OWA and virtualized environments.

Additional information can be seen in the Veloxum Press Release.

Xpeerient, developer of a platform that facilitates connections between buyers and sellers of IT solutions, announced their launch of their online community.

The company is focused on streamlining the process of buying and selling enterprise IT solutions to make it more efficient, trust-based and effective for both IT buyers and solution providers. Participants interact with peers discussing similar technology and provider experiences; avoid decision pitfalls by engaging with peers one-on-one; and gather information from providers.

additional information can be found here.

AdelaVoice, developer of StartTalking and a stage1ventures portfolio company, launched the StartTalking Mobile Application Developer Program. This new effort provides developers with a fast, free way to add a voice-driven user interface to their applications by leveraging StartTalking, the world’s first cross-carrier eyes- and hands-free texting solution. ChompSMS, the programs first participant, has had successful results.

"Integrating a complete eyes- and hands-free texting solution would seem like an enormous task. Not so!" said Martin Cantwell, Co-Founder and President of Product Development for chompSMS. "Through our partnership with AdelaVoice, it simply took a few hours of integration work, and everything worked seamlessly first time. What a great concept, well implemented and all thanks to the team at AdelaVoice!"

"chompSMS illustrates how quickly companies can use StartTalking to drive-time-enable their applications to address distracted driving," said John Nogrady, AdelaVoice Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Development.

For more information about the StartTalking Mobile Application Developer program, visit www.starttalking.com/developers.php.

Additional coverage can be found on the CNBC website.