ProSource said it's correcting language on its website restating revenue requirements for its three levels of dealer participation. Previous wording referenced "average" revenue requirements for the CI (custom integrator), Pro and Power dealer levels. The correct requirements for the three tiers are annual minimum revenue of $1 million for CI members, $4 million for Power members and $10 million for Pro members, CEO David Workman emailed us Thursday. ProSource said this week (see 1810100064) it added 14 CI members to bring dealer membership to 564.

ProSource added 14 custom integrator members in Q3 representing $34.7 million in additional revenue for the buying group, it said Tuesday. New members are Absolute AV Design, San Diego; Jerry's Audio Video, Phoenix; AVS Design Concepts, Knoxville; Lightworks, San Diego; Big Daddy's Stereo, Longview, Texas; Remote-AV, Plainfield, Illinois; Custom Theater and Audio, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina; Seagull Electronics, Jupiter, Florida; Distinctive Home Automation, New York; Sight & Sound Systems, Dulles, Virginia; Elite Audio, Lexington, South Carolina; Sphere Home Technologies, Birmingham; Elite Automation & Technology, Conroe, Texas; Ultimate Sound & Vision, Miami. ProSource has added 40 dealers this year, bringing the total to 564, Sherry Dantonio, membership director, emailed us. The breakout by level is 26 Pro (average $10 million revenue), 74 Power (average $4 million) and 464 Custom Integrator (average $1 million), she said.

Kano Computing agreed to change privacy practices on its website, while AT&T plans to challenge advertising industry criticisms of its "More for Your Thing" campaign, arms of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council said Wednesday. The Children's Advertising Review Unit recommended Kano bring practices into line with a self-regulatory program and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. It said the site didn't try to obtain verifiable parental consent and there was no FTC-approved method for securing parental consent before collection or disclosure of kids' personal information. It said Kano indicated it would make such changes. The National Advertising Division said AT&T indicated it will appeal to the National Advertising Review Board. NAD said T-Mobile challenged ad campaign claims, and that some claims were supported but others were "puffery." Kano and AT&T didn't comment.

The Parents Television Council praised Walmart and MGM's partnership to create original programming for the retailer's Vudu streaming video service. “Netflix may be the shiniest new toy in Hollywood, but the volume and degree of explicit content is increasingly vexing for parents and families," said Tim Winter, PTC president. The announcement from Walmart is "welcome news," said Winter, encouraging Walmart to invest in and expand the service.

FTC repeal of the five-decade-old “picture tube rule” to prevent deceptive marketing of TV screen sizes (see 1803130054) takes effect 90 days after notice in the Federal Register, said the commission Tuesday. The rule “is no longer necessary to prevent deceptive claims regarding the size of television screens or to encourage uniformity and accuracy in their marketing,” it said. The FTC “retains its authority to address future unfair or deceptive practices relating to television screen measurement on a case-by-case basis,” it said: The commission relied heavily on CTA comments that keeping the rule “would not provide any meaningful benefit to consumers because market forces will continue to make a screen’s diagonal measurement the industry standard,” said the notice.

EU and U.S. officials' discussion Thursday on competition policy issues and cross-border cooperation will contribute to the FTC’s competition policy review (see 1809210056), Chairman Joe Simons said after the meeting. “High-level engagement with our European colleagues enables us to deepen mutual understanding of our enforcement policies, facilitating greater convergence and efficiency in the review of trans-Atlantic transactions and conduct.” Simons met European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Makan Delrahim in Washington, where they discussed digital markets, multilateral framework, data protection, vertical mergers, unilateral conduct and merger cooperation. Such work is "essential to ensuring competitive markets in the increasingly interconnected global economy,” Delrahim said.

Verizon Wireless resolved an “intermittent network interruption for customers in some markets in the south” by 4 p.m. Tuesday, a spokesman said. He didn't say what caused outages reported by customers in multiple big markets in the Northeast and Southeast (see 1809250053).

FCC Technical Advisory Council member Lisa Guess is now at Cradlepoint (see 1809200037).

Google said it’s launching emergency location service (ELS) for Android in the U.S., in combination with RapidSOS, T-Mobile and West, to bring more accurate location more quickly to 911 call centers. “Accurately locating someone during an emergency call is critical for reducing response time and can be the difference between life and death,” said a Wednesday Google blog post. “More than 80 percent of emergency calls come from mobile phones, but locating these phones can be challenging as traditional emergency location technologies can fail indoors or have a radius that’s too big to be useful.” ELS “provides a more accurate location both indoors and outdoors by using a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi, mobile networks and sensors -- the same high-accuracy location you see when using Google Maps,” the company said. Apple said in June it's working with RapidSOS on similar technology (see 1806180003). Google already launched ELS in the U.S. Virgin Islands through a partnership with West and Viya, a regional carrier.

Less than half of smart home technology installations are subcontracted out to CEDIA contractors by home builders, architects, and interior designers, said a CEDIA study done in June and July by The Farnsworth Group. The survey of 273 homebuilders, architects and interior designers was designed to gauge interest level in the smart home category and awareness of the CEDIA channel, said the trade group. Among the results: 74 percent of interior designers and 61 percent of architects look to subcontractors to install smart home technology and contract out to a certified home technology professional in most cases, and some 63 percent of home builders do the work themselves or subcontract out to an electrician. Nearly 70 percent of home builders are aware of CEDIA vs. 58 percent of architects and 35 percent of interior designers, said the study. Certifications were seen as “very important” to 70 percent of the survey group, and 70 percent said they would hire a certified smart home contractor over a non-certified one. Four in five respondents said they're interested in some level of smart home technology, it said. Developing a deeper relationship with designers and builders has been a goal of the trade association since inception. CEDIA CEO Tabatha O’Connor said Wednesday the study sets a “benchmark” for the organization to understand where it is today and to measure success in building awareness and opportunities for members going forward. Survey findings show opportunities exist for members’ services “if we can build awareness and create more demand,” O’Connor said. CEDIA is exhibiting this week at Design and Construction Week and will again at DCW in February, it said.