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Surprise ruling in Kentucky

Mito — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:55:50 +0000

The appeal over an appeal by the state of Kentucky to the state Supreme Court has had an unexpected result - on the legal technicality of whether iMEGA and the IGC had standing to pursue the state after it tried to seize and confiscate 141 international Internet gambling domain names, the bench ruled that they [...]

Scandinavian deal for Neogames

Mito — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:22:30 +0000

The Scandinavian company Megascratch.com Inc., which claims to be staffed by unidentified online gambling industry professionals, has entered into a white label agreement with the Malta-licensed Internet scratch card specialist group Neogames. The agreement will see Neogames provide a fully managed white label site branded Megascratch.com, which will carry a comprehensive portfolio of over 50 interactive [...]

New 5 line scratchcards from Neogames

Mito — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:51:07 +0000

The Malta-licensed online scratch card provider Neogames has launched another first for the company - two 5 line instant sctrach card games that give players more opportunities to win in a single game. Dubbed Fair Play and The Grand Crown, both titles are fast paced and easy to play, and Neogames have followed its usual practice of [...]

Q1 2010 results release by Chartwell Technology

Mito — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:24:24 +0000

The Calgary, Canada-based online gambling software developer Chartwell Technology has released its financial results for Q1 2010, a period ending January 31, 2010. Revenue dropped to $3.5 million compared to $4.2 million for the same period a year earlier, generating a net loss for Q1 of $800 000 compared to a net loss of $100 000 [...]

Buzzluck brand sold…but not the database

Mito — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:23:20 +0000

Online gambling marketing whizz Alex Czajkowski made a big impression when his eGaming20.com company launched the Buzzluck online casino, taking a fresh and innovative onsite promotional approach that appealed to a wide range of players and generated plenty of, well…buzz. Unfortunately the enterprise is no more, with Czajkowski posting on several message boards that he was unable [...]

Kyl´s delaying tactics pay off

Mito — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:21:56 +0000

Online gambling’s arch enemy, the Republican senator from Arizona Jon Kyl, apparently chose a potent and successful tactic to ensure the UIGEA regulations are not delayed beyond June 1st. His blocking of key US Treasury appointments during approval hearings resulted in an assurance from Secretary to the Treasury Tim Geithner that no further postponements of [...]

Aussie internet censorship delayed

Mito — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:17:14 +0000

The highly controversial and much criticised attempt by Australia’s Labour government to introduce a statutary body-controlled blacklist of Internet websites, effectively censoring the Internet, has been delayed, according to reports in the Australian mainstream media. Apparently the legislation remains mired in the drafting process and the earliest it is expected to emerge for parliamentary discussion is [...]

Plenty of sports action for Betboo

Mito — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:16:07 +0000

The Latin American-facing sports betting operator and Gaming VC subsidiary Betboo will receive over 1 500 televised sports events every year following an agreement signed with digital sports group Perform this week. The events will be presented via the white label live sports internet television service, WatchAndBetTV, also deployed by major betting companies like Ladbrokes, Unibet and [...]

Timely launch

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:18:03 +0000

WinADay’s latest game release, a 5 reel 31 payline 3D slot dubbed Leprechaun’s Luck was launched on St Patrick’s Day, backed by a series of promos to mark the international wearing of the green. The Slotland subsidiary’s latest slot offering features ‘wild’ and ‘double wild’ symbols alongside a ‘cauldron bonus’ and a bonus game. Players who manage [...]

Online casino action for PKR?

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:17:10 +0000

The chief executive of the popular UK-based 3D online poker room PKR.com, Malcolm Graham, said in an intervew this week that the company will introduce a suite of casino games to build on the company’s impressive growth since launch in 2006. Graham told industry publication EGR: “We’re in the process of rolling out 3D casino [...]

lacklustre year for Neovia

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:16:14 +0000

The Internet e-cash processing group Neovia plc has released a lacklustre set of full year results for the period to December 31st 2009. The financial report shows group revenue declining by 15 percent to $64.5 million; fee revenue down 10 percent to $62.9 million and gross margin reduced to 54.6 percent (FY 2008: 61.8 percent. The group [...]

71 percent rise in full year profit at Playtech

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:14:42 +0000

Playtech Limited has posted a 71 percent rise in full-year net profit and raised its dividend, as new licence agreements boosted its bottom line, and says it has made a good start to 2010. “Current trading is being driven by the group’s investments in Italy, Spain, and Serbia over 2009,” chief executive Mor Weizer told Dow [...]

Playtech to provide Boyle Sports with online bingo

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:13:24 +0000

Online gambling software provider Playtech Ltd. has established a bingo licensing agreement with Ireland’s largest independent bookmaker Boylesports. Playtech will provide Boylesports with its online bingo solution through the Virtue Fusion Alderney platform, a subsidiary company that develops and licenses Internet bingo products, Boylesports will receive European prize pool liquidity from Playtech, with the bingo product joining [...]

Fourth online gambling portal attacked?

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:07:39 +0000

Although full details are not yet to hand, posts at the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association (GPWA) forum indicate that a fourth online gambling information website may have come under distributed denial of service attack. The latest site to be taken down is the Australian based Gambling-gazette.com, which was disabled last week but was successfully revived, only [...]

Consolidated research on Aussie gambling

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:04:48 +0000

Australian academics who carried out a meta-analysis of 34 gambling studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand, claim to have produced the most complete study of gambling prevalence in Australasia to date…and the problem gambling implications are worrying. The Problem Gambling Foundation says lawmakers should consider the results of the research, which found that there is [...]

eCOGRA accredits major French online gambling group´s casino software

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:03:06 +0000

The online and interactive software supplier subsidiary of the largest privately held land gambling group in France - Groupe Partouche - has successfully achieved accreditation by the independent standards and player protection body eCOGRA. Partouche Technologies, which is based near Tours in France, is the software supplier of Groupe Partouche Interactive Gibraltar Limited, and under the [...]

Third online gambling portal attacked

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:54 +0000

A third online gambling information website, the Online Players Union.com, was subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack Tuesday morning, taking the site down for some 2 hours. Like the attack on Online Casino Reviewer.com (see previous InfoPowa report) the latest attack was not particularly effective or sophisticated, emanating from six rapidly rotating IPs [...]

Will Macau cap casino activity?

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:00:38 +0000

Moves to restrict the involvement of more gambling companies in the booming gambling island of Macau could be in prospect, presenting existing licensees like Las Vegas Sands, MGM Mirage and Wynn Resorts with limited new competition. Companies that have not yet entered the market could well be excluded if Macau chief executive Fernando Chui means business. [...]

Bonnier deal extended by Net Entertainment

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:57:07 +0000

Swedish online gambling software provider Net Entertainment extended its partnership with the part-owned Bonnier Gaming bingo subsidiary Bertil Internet Ltd, through an additional delivery of its successful CasinoModule online casino platform. The partnership is an important part of media company Bonnier’s quest to establish itself as an operator in the rapidly growing online gambling market. Bonnier Gaming [...]

Getting social with GTech marketing tool

Mito — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:54:46 +0000

Online gambling technology and software provider GTechG2 has introduced an innovative social customer relationship manager (CRM) aid to its Bingo platform. The new tool enables licensees to send targeted communications to existing players via widgets inside social networks, start pages, blogs and on the desktop, using the new, OOCONNECT platform. Matt Nash, chief executive of OOSOCIAL said that [...]

Lucky warning

Mito — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:42:44 +0000

The anonymous winner of a $250 000 Mega Millions lottery prize in Maryland was doubly lucky this week when he almost discarded the winning ticket. The 49-year-old winner had previously bought his usual lottery tickets at a local store, checked them after the March 9 draw and mistakenly thought he had losing numbers, throwing the tickets [...]

Is this the biggest yet online scratch card jackpot?

Mito — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:41:56 +0000

Neogames-powered scratch card site Hopa.com reports that an Australian player, SanjaniH has scored what may well be the biggest scratch card jackpot win yet - a $200 000 windfall and the biggest single prize ever paid by the website. SanjaniH is apparently a regular player on Hopa.com, and will be helping members of her family with [...]

Another online gambling fights off DDoS attack

Mito — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:39:02 +0000

Yesterday’s story on a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the Internet gambling information portal Casinomeister.com has been followed by reports of a similar if less severe attack over the weekend on the Online Casino Reviewer.com website. The two websites are idependent of one another and have different owners. In neither case were the attacks accompanied [...]

Betstone in Italy

Mito — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:47:37 +0000

Server based gaming specialist Betstone.com will be among online gambling companies with ambitions for the Italian market exhibiting at the ENADA show this week. A spokesman for the company said that Server Based Gaming providers who can show proven technological global experience and can deliver access to large content libraries, are likely to best succeed in [...]

Casinomeister.com attacked

Mito — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:46:42 +0000

The popular German-based online gambling information portal Casinomeister.com was the target for a distributed denial of services attack over the weekend, but will soon be up and running again says webmaster Bryan Bailey. DDoS attacks are usually carried out by bots that have been maliciously taken over by criminal elements and bombard the target with so [...]

Major bingo jackpot

Mito — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:45:55 +0000

The Sands of Fortune shifted for a lucky Costa Bingo.com player last week when they won more than GBP 71,000 at the fast-growing online bingo website, which only launched last year. The online bingo player, who has elected to remain anonymous, deposited just GBP 50 before turning the stake into a staggering jackpot worth GBP 71 [...]

AGA spent $345000 lobbying in Q4 2009

Mito — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:32:29 +0000

The American Gaming Association, a trade association that represents the interests of the main land gambling firms in the United States, spent $345 000 in the fourth quarter 2009 to lobby on issues such as online gambling and health care reform, according to a recent mandatory disclosure report. The Washington D.C. based AGA also lobbied the federal [...]

Betcha.com tussle still ongoing

Mito — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:31:21 +0000

The legality of a business model for a betting exchange company that was closed in 2007 under pressure from Washington state officials is still the subject of court actions as the owner and the state gambling authorities wrestle through appeal and counter appeal actions. The dispute is rooted in the legality of a business model where [...]

CTV online gambling program: much ado about Ayre

Mito — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:29:34 +0000

Saturday’s Canada screening of CTV W5’s investigative program on Internet gambling was a fairly mild affair in which the life and times of Bodog founder Calvin Ayre (48) featured heavily, with the high profile exec speaking from Antigua on his latest venture, franchising the Bodog brand. As such it offered a mainly historical recap of past [...]

Betfair TV gets into its stride

Mito — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:02:40 +0000

The world’s largest online betting exchange, Betfair, has launched its new in-play betting service for Internet-enabled television sets, opening up new betting opportunities for punters across the world. The BetfairTV system allows punters to use a slimline version of the famously successful betting exchange alongside live broadcasts. Players use the remote control to place bets in [...]