Details of Mobile Games Ratings System Revealed

PC Magazine - 29 Nov, 2011
How do you know if a mobile game is appropriate for your child? In an effort to offer parents some guidance, CTIA, the wireless industry trade association, and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) on Tuesday announced a new ...

Apple, Google apps face smut and violence ratings

Register - 29 Nov, 2011
Apps could be scored on sex and violence if Apple and Google approve a voluntary rating system proposed by the American Wireless Association, the CITA, and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). ...

Mobile Industry Rolls out Gaming Rating System

PCWorld - 29 Nov, 2011
Mobile telecom trade group CTIA and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) will roll out a rating system for mobile applications similar to ratings on other electronic games, the groups announced Tuesday. ...

The Circuit: Facebook IPO, app ratings, counterfeit goods

Washington Post (blog) - 29 Nov, 2011
LEADING 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 ...

Smartphone App Ratings System to Proceed Without Apple, Google

BusinessWeek - 29 Nov, 2011
Nov. 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 ...

Apple Joins Google in Skipping New Mobile-App Ratings for Sex, Violence

Bloomberg - 29 Nov, 2011
A 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 apps

Washington Post (blog) - 29 Nov, 2011
Wireless 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, ...

ESRB to rate apps sold by mobile carriers

Los Angeles Times - 29 Nov, 2011
With 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 ...

Mobile apps to get ratings similar to video games

USA Today - 29 Nov, 2011
Mobile 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, 2011‎
In 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 ...

Apple, Google absent from ESRB's new mobile app rating system

GigaOm - 29 Nov, 2011
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) intends to apply the age-rating icons now familiar on PC and console games to mobile apps, providing a way for parents to monitor and restrict the ...

CTIA and ESRB Launch App Ratings System Without Google or Apple

LAPTOP Magazine (blog) - 29 Nov, 2011
CTIA â€" The Wireless Association and the Entertainment Software Ratings Board have announced a new ratings system for mobile apps, and chances are you'll probably never see it. The new system, which apes the ESRB's video game ratings system, ...

CTIA/ESRB Unveil App Rating System

Broadcasting & Cable - 29 Nov, 2011
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/29/2011 12:03:57 PM CTIA and the Entertainment Software Rating Board Tuesday unveiled their newly-developed rating system, supported by six "mobile application storefronts." Translation: mobile carriers AT&T ...

Mobile games to receive ESRB ratings in conjunction with wireless association CTIA

VG247 - 29 Nov, 2011
CTIA-The Wireless Association and the ESRB have announced a newly-developed rating system for mobile game titles, utilizing the same age rating icons assigned to computer and console games. The system will be voluntarily supported on six mobile ...

CTIA Announces New Mobile App Rating System

Mobile Marketing Watch - 29 Nov, 2011
On Tuesday, CTIA â€" The Wireless Association and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) announced a newly-developed rating system that six mobile application storefronts will voluntarily support as part of their application submission process. ...

ESRB, CTIA Detail Voluntary Mobile App Rating System

Gamasutra - 29 Nov, 2011
The ESRB and CTIA have unveiled details of a previously teased voluntary rating system for mobile apps, with support from six major mobile service and hardware providers but not mobile app ...

ESRB ratings coming to mobile phones

Shacknews - 29 Nov, 2011
Angry Birds is rated E for Everyone--and not just because everyone in the developed world seems to have the game. The ESRB has announced a new partnership with the CTIA Wireless Association to bring ESRB ratings ...

CTIA-The Wireless Association® and ESRB Announce Mobile Application Rating System

Sacramento Bee - 29 Nov, 2011
By CTIA-The Wireless Association WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 -- Provides Parents and Consumers Reliable Information about Age-Appropriateness of Applications Based on Content and Context WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CTIA-The ...

CTIA And ESRB Debut App Rating System, No Buy-In From Google Or Apple

TechCrunch - 29 Nov, 2011
Chris Velazco is a mobile enthusiast and writer who studied English and Marketing at Rutgers University. Once upon a time, he was the news intern for MobileCrunch, and in between posts, he worked in wireless sales at Best Buy. ...

Apple, Google forgo CTIA's new app rating system

Fiercemobilecontent - 29 Nov, 2011
CTIA-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 ...

CTIA-The Wireless Association® and ESRB Announce Mobile Application Rating System

PR Newswire (press release) - 29 Nov, 2011
WASHINGTON, 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 ...

ESRB finally offers mobile ratings, without Android, iPhone

TG Daily - 29 Nov, 2011
After 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 Apps

National Journal - 29 Nov, 2011
The 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 ...

ESRB to rate mobile apps

Afterdawn.com - 29 Nov, 2011
The 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 ...

US operators sign up to ESRB mobile app vetting

GoMo News - 29 Nov, 2011
A 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 Scheme

Spong - 29 Nov, 2011
The 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, ...

OVERNIGHT TECH: Wireless group to unveil app rating system

The Hill (blog) - 29 Nov, 2011
THE 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, ...

CTIA-The Wireless Association® and ESRB Announce Mobile Application Rating System

MarketWatch (press release) - 29 Nov, 2011
WASHINGTON, 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 ...

Apple, Google Forgo CTIA's New App Rating System

DailyFinance - 29 Nov, 2011
The Wireless Association and the Entertainment Software Rating Board unveiled the CTIA Mobile Application Rating System, a new program that applies age-rating icons ...

Mobile industry rolls out gaming rating system

ITworld.com - 29 Nov, 2011
November 29, 2011, 11:06 AM â€" Mobile telecom trade group CTIA and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) will roll out a rating system for mobile applications similar to ratings on other ...

 

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