The Circuit: Facebook IPO, app ratings, counterfeit goodsWashington Post (blog) - 29 Nov, 2011LEADING THE DAY: Facebook is expected to file for its initial public offering soon â€" possibly before the end of this year, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Citing an unnamed “person familiar with the matter,” the report said the social ... |
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Smartphone App Ratings System to Proceed Without Apple, GoogleBusinessWeek - 29 Nov, 2011Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Mobile applications for smartphones and tablet computers may carry new ratings for violence and sexual content under a wireless industry-sponsored system awaiting backing from Apple Inc. and Google Inc. Under the ... |
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Apple Joins Google in Skipping New Mobile-App Ratings for Sex, ViolenceBloomberg - 29 Nov, 2011A new ratings system for smartphone apps awaits backing from Apple and Google. Photographer: Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Under the policy to be unveiled today by CTIA-The Wireless Association, mobile apps for ... |
Wireless, tech giants to start rating appsWashington Post (blog) - 29 Nov, 2011Wireless and high-tech giants will announce Tuesday a ratings system for mobile apps to warn families about smartphone and tablet software that contain violent and other mature content. AT&T, Microsoft, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, ... |
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ESRB to rate apps sold by mobile carriersLos Angeles Times - 29 Nov, 2011With more than 200000 Android applications and 500000 for iPhones, the app market has a Wild West, anything-goes flavor -- fun for downloaders, but anxiety-producing for parents. The wireless trade group CTIA on Tuesday addressed those concerns by ... |
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Mobile apps to get ratings similar to video gamesUSA Today - 29 Nov, 2011Mobile applications and games on popular smartphones and tablets â€" including Apple's iPhone and iPad and Android-based devices â€" will soon carry age-based ratings. Gerald Herbert, AP The new ratings system hopes to make it ... |
MeMeMe Partners with Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) to Bring Next ...San Francisco Chronicle (press release) - Nov 28, 2011In 2008, the ESRB began offering a supplemental source of information called rating summaries, which provide brief but detailed description of exactly the type of content that is in a game, including specific examples. The mobile app powered by ... |
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Apple, Google forgo CTIA's new app rating systemFiercemobilecontent - 29 Nov, 2011CTIA-The Wireless Association and the Entertainment Software Rating Board unveiled the CTIA Mobile Application Rating System, a new program that applies age-rating icons to apps and games in an effort to provide parents and consumers greater insight ... |
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CTIA-The Wireless Association® and ESRB Announce Mobile Application Rating SystemPR Newswire (press release) - 29 Nov, 2011WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CTIA-The Wireless Association® and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) today announced a newly-developed rating system that six mobile application storefronts will voluntarily support as ... |
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ESRB finally offers mobile ratings, without Android, iPhoneTG Daily - 29 Nov, 2011After years of trying to rediscover itself in a world that is no longer monopolized by packaged retail video games, the ESRB will now rate mobile apps. But the victory for the regulatory board won't go too far because Google and Apple have decided not ... |
QUICK TAKE: Wireless Industry Launches Rating System For Mobile AppsNational Journal - 29 Nov, 2011The wireless industry group CTIA announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new rating system for mobile applications that the major wireless providers have agreed to voluntarily follow. The rating system, which will be formally ... |
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ESRB to rate mobile appsAfterdawn.com - 29 Nov, 2011The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) is tasked with providing content ratings to video games to help make consumers, and especially parents, more informed about what kind of content they are buying. ESRB works mostly with ratings for games ... |
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US operators sign up to ESRB mobile app vettingGoMo News - 29 Nov, 2011A very laudable initiative from the US-based wireless industry body â€" the CTIA has persuaded key North American mobile network operators to sign up to a new app vetting scheme. Actually it's not very new because it is merely the mobile version of a ... |
ESRB to Rate Mobile Apps - Apple Will Not Be a Part of SchemeSpong - 29 Nov, 2011The USA's game ratings board - Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is teaming up with the wireless trade group CTIA "to create new parent-friendly ratings for mobile apps". "Major carriers Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular, ... |
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OVERNIGHT TECH: Wireless group to unveil app rating systemThe Hill (blog) - 29 Nov, 2011THE LEDE: CTIA â€" The Wireless Association, which represents wireless carriers such as Verizon and AT&T, will unveil details about a new rating system for mobile applications Tuesday morning in Washington, ... |
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CTIA-The Wireless Association® and ESRB Announce Mobile Application Rating SystemMarketWatch (press release) - 29 Nov, 2011WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Provides Parents and Consumers Reliable Information about Age-Appropriateness of Applications Based on Content and Context CTIA-The Wireless Association® and the Entertainment Software Rating Board ... |
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