For pioneering mobile gambling operator Slotland.com, news at the recent3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona was all good. Developing technologiesare making it easier, cheaper and more fun to play casino games like slotmachines on mobile phones and that puts a smile on the face of JohnLancelet, Mobile Games Director at Slotland.com. There was a lot to […]
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According to statistics just released by the UK Gambling Commission as partof a new information service, almost one in 12 adults in Britainparticipated in at least one form of online gambling in the previous month.Including playing the national lottery, just under 8 percent took part inone form of online gaming or another last year, a […]
Vices are as American as apple pie – tobacco, alcohol, gambling, pornographyand many others absolutely saturate today's society. Just as prevalent aregovernment policies to control them. Laws crafted to regulate the salaciousappetite of the public are among the most controversial public policies –take the American alcohol prohibition failure as a prime example. Onlinegamblers today find […]
Attracting wide New Zealand media comment over the weekend was the news thatthe New Zealand Green political party wants a new online gambling site shutdown because it "threatens the viability of the racing industry." GreenParty member of parliament Sue Bradford is at the heart of the row, claimingthat an online gambling site, Race-O New Zealand, […]
Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown will reveal a plan in his budgetnext month to encourage the online gambling industry, according to publishedreports.He will use the 21 March budget to announce that companies could obtain aBritish licence and still remain based overseas in return for a tax —possibly as low as 2 per cent or […]
Communist China will begin "purifying" the cyber environment, taking a leadfrom US legislators and law enforcement officials. They will begin crackingdown severely on internet gambling activity. "The prevalence of onlinegaming has ruined the online environment and harmed young people's growth,which runs against the policy of building a harmonious society," said acircular jointly issued by the […]
Although things have appeared bleak lately for Americans who enjoy onlinegambling, something is about to happen next month which may swing thependulum back towards freedom of choice. Laws passed previously bannednon-US companies from operating in the US gaming market. However, Antiguaand Barbuda had built up a significant Internet gambling industry to replacefalling tourist revenue and […]
"we get all of the pain and none of the gain" – is about to be redressed,with two major betting agencies set to sign lucrative deals with the NRL.The NRL is on the verge of completing a long-form agreement with Tabcorp,the merged entity of the NSW and Victorian TABs, to become a sponsor, whileBetfair, a […]
He will use the March 21 budget to announce that companies could obtain aBritish license and still remain based overseas in return for atax–possibly as low as 2 percent or 3 percent, the Daily Telegraph saidFriday in an unsourced report. Named a Remote Gaming Duty, the new tax wouldenable gambling firms to avoid paying British […]
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is reportedly set to announceplans in next month's budget to entice offshore gambling firms to beregulated and licenced in the UK in return for a tax. The new tax, whichwill be called the Remote Gaming Duty, would allow gambling companies to belicenced in the UK but still be based […]
British finance minister Gordon Brown will reveal a plan in his budget nextmonth to encourage the online gambling industry, the Daily Telegraphreported on Friday.He will use the March 21 budget to announce that companies could obtain aBritish license and still remain based overseas in return for a tax —possibly as low as 2 percent or […]
The province's lottery corporation wants more British Columbians to take upgaming, as the government that once vowed as party policy to halt the growthof gambling in B.C. reaps ever increasing revenue from it. "They arebecoming gaming crackheads," NDP Crown corporations critic Guy Gentnercharged yesterday, noting that government income from gambling in theprovince for the coming […]
With the NBA All-Star Game taking place in Las Vegas this past Sunday night,the issue of moving a NBA team to Las Vegas has come to the forefront of NBAconversation. Commissioner David Stern is just now opening discussion aboutfielding a Sin City franchise. What was his reason for neglecting mention ofmoving a team to one […]
When it comes to betting on sports, it seems the gambling industry has leftno stone unturned. There are government-sanctioned Sport Select kiosks invirtually every corner store, casinos in every corner of the city andchances to bet on just about any horse race in the world at EdmontonNorthlands. There are illegal book-makers more than willing to […]