Studies in Canada last year that showed that senior citizens benefitted mentally from participation in online activities have been complemented by studies in the United States which indicate that the same positive effects apply to students.
The impact of SI writer Ian Thomsen’s interview on gambling legalisation with NBA chief David Stern was heightened this week when Forbes videocast gave the story longer legs at: http://video.forbes.com/fvn/sportsmoney/yes-sm-nba-legalizing-gambling
Punters at online casinos using Betsoft software will be trying their luck on the latest addition to the company’s Slots3 series of 3D games this week following the release of “Enchanted”. In common with earlier games in the series like Once Upon a Time and Barbary Coast, the new game features true cinematic 3D graphics, …
The recent news that Mahjong Logic, a provider and developer of online mahjong, had acquired an Isle of Man online gambling licence has been followed by the information that the company’s compliance was assessed by the independent player protection and standards body eCOGRA’s compliance audit team.
Selected Playtech-powered online casinos have started the new year with press releases punting new offerings which perhaps provide some advance notice of what the online gambling software provider has in the immediate product pipeline.
Switzerland is headed toward a significant online gambling liberalisation – and it’s without any external legal pressure to do so, reports the MECN research company, which has just completed a survey on developments in the traditionally neutral country in association with the Swiss legal firm MME Partners.
2010 will likely see exciting developments in Estonia, a small Baltic nation already respected internationally for its software development capabilities that is reportedly moving into the online gambling regulatory field.
The UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports that pre-tax profits at UC Group fell to GBP 218 221 in 2008, down from GBP 2.42 million a year earlier following a 30 percent fall in revenues. But prospects for 2010 are looking a little more promising.
According to an article in the January issue of the magazine Gamesworld, the costs of regulating the British gambling industry have tripled since the advent of the Gambling Commission in 2005.
Under the Canadian Criminal Code, only provincial governments have the power to conduct Internet gambling, and the British Columbia government is being urged to exercise this authority in a non-exclusive manner to ensure that Canadian punters are presented with only reputable and safe Internet gambling venues.
Despite grumbling from the European Commission on its restrictions of gambling services from other EU nations, it appears that the Belgian government is forging ahead with its plans for Belgian-exclusive online gambling regulation in 2010.
With 2010 barely days old, the Reuters news agency reports that shares of Macau land casino operators rose this week on reports that gambling revenues in the enclave in December 2009 rose 48 percent from a year earlier, signalling sustained growth in the world’s largest gambling market.
One of the longest established and best known companies in the online gambling industry, 888.com, has announced the departure of one of its founding directors.
Three new non-executive directors have been added to the board at Mirada Gaming.
The Greek government has named Yannis Spanoudakis, a senior Athens 2004 Olympics organiser, as the new chief executive officer of Europe’s biggest betting company OPAP, a company spokesman has revealed.
Mahjong Logic, a software developer and real money player-to-player mahjong network, has announced its achievement of Isle of Man online gambling licensing.
The year-long industry dispute between some affiliate marketers and the Grand Prive Affiliate Program moved a further step closer to a hopefully mutually satisfactory conclusion this week as the extended 31st December deadline for submission of claims to third party auditor eCOGRA passed.
As 2010 dawns, land gambling operators in Australia continue to attack the government’s Productivity Commission recommendation that online gambling be legalised in the country.
The on again, off again, long running Thai government project to take the national lottery online was making local headlines in media like the Bangkok Post and The Nation again this week as Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced yet another review of the delay-plagued project.
The Chinese government used an announcement of Internet pornography prosecution statistics this week as a further opportunity to caution that online pornography, gambling and “…other sites deemed harmful to society” remained its primary targets in the “purification of the Internet.”
The UK database marketing group CDMS has adopted the branding of Transactis, a pioneer in the marketing discipline that it acquired less than a year ago….and among its impressive clients is online gambling giant Betfair.
Online gambling group Leisure and Gaming plc has announced that its non-executive chairman, Philip Parker, has resigned as he advised he would do earlier this year and has now left the company.
Online gambling group Leisure and Gaming plc has announced that its non-executive chairman, Philip Parker, has resigned as he advised he would do earlier this year and has now left the company.
Joseph W. LaForte, a New York resident already serving a prison term on unrelated charges, admitted mid-week that he helped run an illegal offshore sportsbetting ring that operated in several states, including New Jersey.