It’s an election year and already one of the biggest issues that has manyvoters’ attention isn’t the scandal of Mark Foley and the congressional pagewho he instant messaged for a year and a half, but it is a bill in which thegovernment is prepared to crack down on online gambling. But is this billgoing to […]
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The US Congress has passed tough new federal restrictions on onlinegambling, including measures that prohibit US gamblers from using creditcards, cheques and electronic fund transfers to settle online wagers. Themove came just hours after Peter Dicks, former chairman of Sportingbet, theBritish internet bookmaker, was freed by a New York court, signalling defeatfor Louisiana’s attempt to […]
Ministers want to make Britain the world centre of internet gambling,documents released by Whitehall showed today. The records showed thatministers and officials have met internet gambling tycoons and theirrepresentatives no less than 26 times over the past two years. The detailssuggest that the Government is engaged in a campaign of cosying up to onlinegambling concerns […]
The dice are rolling hot on the tables of what was once a sleepy Portuguesecolony. With millions of mainland Chinese high rollers arriving every year,developers in Macau are racing to turn the former enclave into Asia’sglittering gambling capital. The stakes are high. At the baccarat table ofone casino, a middle-aged Chinese woman shrugs off the […]
The first firings in the Israeli online gambling industry have started, asIM Intermedia dismissed half of its 100 workers yesterday. The firm suppliesservices for online marketing and data mining for online gaming companies inthe United States, and its customers include Intercontinental Online. Thecompany confirmed the report. Yesterday’s cutbacks are just the first ofmany expected in […]
The world’s largest computer facilities for online gaming are located inCanada and are nicknamed MIT. This doesn’t stand for the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology: It stands for the Mohawk Institute of Technology.That is because this gigantic “server park” — which drives many of theonline gambling sites — is inside the Mohawk First Nations Reserve, alsoknown as […]
The 1-800 hotline established to help Ontario’s addicted gamblers is beinginundated with thousands of calls from people looking for winning lotterynumbers, prompting the government to rethink the way it advertises thetelephone number. Figures obtained by the Citizen show that the number of“misdirected” phone calls to Ontario’s Problem Gambling Helpline hasskyrocketed since its inception in 1997, […]
A number of gambling industry executives have suggested that they willexploit exemption clauses contained within the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act of 2006 – keeping open their principal US facing websites,but retuning them towards skill based games. One has even gone as far as tosuggest that his company will seek to offer online poker within stateboundaries. […]
If the law that is planned to be signed by United States President, GeorgeW. Bush, on Friday is actually signed and enforced, it would be a directspitting in the face of the United States to the World Trade Organization.The WTO claims that the exemptions in the US Internet Gambling ProhibitionBill for horse racing and state […]
Nova Scotia is taking on a leadership role that may help stop problemgambling before it starts. The province has helped develop software thatprevents children from surfing their way on to gaming websites. As many as500 families across Nova Scotia will be able to try out the product forfree. “It’s Internet-blocking software that’s specially designed to […]
Recently, the Governor of the Hardap Region was quoted in the media asreading the Riot Act to local and regional authorities in her region. Shouldone join her or not in her crusade at this juncture? I am not quite sure.Hold on, don’t jump to conclusions! Lest you misunderstand me I am notsaying our local and […]
With the initial panic over last weekend’s rushed US Congress action againstonline gambling dying down, operational companies are starting to look moreobjectively at the practical implications of this essentially financialrestrictive US proposal. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Prohibition Actcontains no provisions that would make it illegal for a person located inthe U.S. to place a bet […]
The Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation is looking for families to test a newcomputer program for blocking online gambling sites. The corporation saidthe new software program, called Betstopper, is supposed to block more than94 per cent of online gambling sites. The province wants 500 families totest the product in their homes. As many as six per […]
Last Saturday the United States Congress passed a port security bill thatcarried an amendment banning Internet gambling. This was a huge mistake, notbecause Internet gambling is a good thing (it was already illegal, in fact),but because the new law is either unenforceable or — if it can beenforced — will tear away the last shreds […]