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News He said gambling is banned and financial transactions are closely monitored. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale and a handful of other virtual-reality experts, testified yesterday at a House of Representatives hearing that was also attended by...
[02 Apr 2008]
News Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet As ever, security scares abounded with revelations that cash machines could be easily hacked and a warning from a gambling website about an "unstoppable botnet".
[27 Mar 2008]
News Also swelling the fast-growing ranks of supporters are a former chief security advisor to the White House and IT bosses from two industries heavily targeted by online criminals, financial services and gambling.
[14 Mar 2008]
News A major UK gambling business has warned that all commercial websites are at risk from a new type of unstoppable and undetectable botnet denial of service attack. Gala Coral ecommerce's gambling sites were taken down for almost 30 minutes by the...
[06 Mar 2008]
News Last summer Linden Lab stepped up security checks and banned gambling and unregulated banks from its digital borders. But the decision to ban gambling in Second Life was taken because it was putting Linden Lab at risk as its servers are based in...
[12 Feb 2008]
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but gave the caveat that it mainly affects "fringe" industries, such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure organisations.
[24 Jan 2008]
News Back in July last year, online gambling was also banned from Second Life. Virtual world Second Life is banning unregulated banks from operating within its borders in order to protect its users' investments.
[10 Jan 2008]
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]
Case Study Betfair is an online betting exchange - a peer-to-peer gambling site acting as a broker between parties for the placement of bets. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below…
[15 Nov 2007]
whitepaper The Web has no shortage of games - or people to play them with. If one can play it with cards or a board, chances are there's an online version: solitaire, hearts, euchre, spades, canasta, Scrabble, mahjong, Sudoku .the list goes on.
[10 Oct 2007]
Case Study Gambling company Betbrokers has used a Russian services company to develop its back-end systems. He said: "They knew nothing about the gambling industry but they were prepared to listen and keen to learn.
[19 Sep 2007]
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]
News Second Life has banned online gambling from its virtual world. The official Linden Lab blog explained: "Linden Lab and Second Life residents must comply with state and federal laws applicable to regulated online gambling, even when both operators...
[31 Jul 2007]
whitepaper Are you gambling with your customers?
[30 Jul 2007]
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]
News And other issues such as gambling in virtual casinos and offering financial services through virtual banks can raise even more regulatory issues. Second Life is the best known of a number of virtual worlds that are attracting a lot of interest from...
[15 May 2007]
News UK betting organisation the Tote is adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve customer service, and develop new products faster and more cheaply. The Tote holds the exclusive licence to run 'pool' betting on horse racing in the UK...
[03 May 2007]
News Just six months after President Bush signed a law outlawing online gambling, a key Democratic politician has proposed lifting the ban. Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee...
[27 Apr 2007]
News The company's services were used extensively for payments made to online gambling sites before a change in US law last year made that type of transaction illegal.silicon.com Financial Services Since then there has been a mass withdrawal of online...
[16 Feb 2007]
whitepaper Tabcorp Holdings Limited (Tabcorp) is Australia's premier gambling and entertainment group and one of the largest gambling and entertainment businesses in the world. Following the merger and acquisitions and solid growth, Tabcorp faced a highly...
[01 Feb 2007]
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