gambling in comment and analysis
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment Bringing geographic borders to the internet in areas such as online gambling or digital rights management has particularly driven the need to geographically identify web users. One way of doing that is to identify exactly where they are located... [09 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't mess with mobile users
Comment Good examples would be ringtones and sporting services, gambling and games. Written in my home office just outside Woodbridge in the UK and dispatched via my home LAN and broadband connection When I look at a mobile phone I see a fixed-line phone... [07 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: How to serve two billion page impressions
Comment Online gambling can be a thorny subject for some people, not least of all our friends from across the pond, but it was encouraging to hear Citrix CEO Mark Templeton talk with such pride about one of his company's most innovative customers. [05 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.01.07
Round-Up This year the Round-Up will be giving up drinking and gambling and taking up smoking in order to quit that too next year. The Round-Up thought for about 30 seconds about how to begin this week's Round-Up and then hit upon the lazy and obvious... [05 Jan 2007]
Leader: The big issues of 2006
Leader We chose retail and leisure - the leisure allows us to include juicy areas such as gambling and hotels - after the two big boys, public sector and financial services. Looking back at 2006 is in many ways about looking forward to 2007. [21 Dec 2006]
Leader: Online gambling on a losing streak
Leader Roll up all that bad luck into one big ball of misery and you might get just a tiny inkling of how the execs running online gambling businesses feel today. In a shock move the US has passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act which aims... [02 Oct 2006]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment Betfair, which has done for gambling what eBay has done for second-hand sales - cutting out the middle man - is a company the silicon.com team has long been acquainted with. Toshiba is a renowned laptop maker and as I have mentioned in previous... [20 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.07.06
Round-Up And it seems online gambling is one area where opinions are fiercely divided, perhaps because of issues such as the plight - or stupidity, if you like - of one gambling addict who hit the headlines this week after admitting he had stolen in excess... [14 Jul 2006]
Leader: Web brands take the battle to the high street
Leader But there are those goods and services, such as holidays, books and gambling, for which it makes no difference how you buy your product and who you buy it from - so you might as well go for the cheapest. [21 Mar 2006]
Leader: Can online gambling clean up its act?
Leader London is to host a summit on online gambling with the intention of encouraging the nascent industry to clean up its act and regulate itself more effectively. But the nature of online gambling is that they are businesses which have long embraced... [17 Jan 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A single source for net protection
Comment Once their service is in place, it makes it easy for businesses to bar their employees from accessing certain types of websites (pornography, gambling and so on). But recently, says Quocirca's Bob Tarzey, that's starting to change. [06 Oct 2005]
Richard Segal
AS Profile Segal also wins plaudits for taking the company to its lucrative IPO without the backing of a bigger high-street brand and for negotiating the regulatory maze needed to allow gambling online. In this year's number nine spot is the man who proved... [23 Sep 2005]
Las Vegas cheat-busting: The truth about tech detection
Comment You only have to look at the ridiculously ornate or overblown statues, attractions, trappings and decorations which adorn these temples of gambling to realise these aren't places which are losing money. [19 Aug 2005]
The Vegas CIO: Tim Stanley, Harrah's Entertainment
Comment High-tech development is having as pronounced an impact on the gaming industry in Las Vegas as the legalisation of gambling, the opening of the Hoover Dam and the endorsement of the Rat Pack. It's 37°c outside and I'm in the back of taxi heading... [11 Jul 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Online poker
Comment No, more worrying to me is what's going on in the online gambling space. Maybe a number of the poker sites and bigger gambling groups with their poker arms - the likes of Ladbrokes, William Hill and Victor Chandler, of vccasino.com - have the... [15 Jun 2005]
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