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CIO Essentials: Luke Mellors' picks of the week
News Second net gambling exec arrested in US I rarely talk with industry colleagues nowadays without somehow talking about the growth and risk of the online gambling market. But what is more... [19 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment Let's see, today in the West we have countries with medieval drinking and shopping laws, archaic media publishing controls, internet gambling bans, porno hysteria, unacceptable clothing control and so on. [07 Aug 2006]
Has US online gambling had its chips?
News Net gambling "is a scourge on our society", said representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican who's tried for the better part of a decade to enact legislation that combats online... [12 Jul 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... [06 Oct 2005]
888.com joins casino IPO wave with £700m float
News Online casino 888.com is hoping to cash in by riding the wave of gambling websites going public. One aspect of the phenomenon, mobile gambling, will alone be worth $11.2bn by 2009, according to analysts. [24 Aug 2005]
Mobile games more valuable than porn
News Gambling will net a comparatively healthy $7.6bn but will also find itself dodging the slings and arrows of the lawmakers if it is to succeed. The exclusively adult preserves of porn and... [25 Jul 2005]
Safer surfing - the EU's €50m priority
News The EU will also be getting behind awareness campaigns to educate teachers, parents and children on the potential risks of surfing the internet, with a particular emphasis on "personalised, interactive and mobile applications", after... [15 Mar 2004]
Internet news more addictive than porn - shocker
News Only 18 per cent cited porn while eight per cent said gambling sites were the most addictive. Employees surfing the net in work time are far more likely to be wiling away the hours surfing news sites... [25 Sep 2002]
US rallies against The Phantom of the Option
Comment Howard Greenstein is one worker who agrees that he gambled, but asks: "Where on this earth, in all the shady gambling joints in all the seedy places that exist, does one lose $71,000 on a $6,000 bet? They are now faced... [28 Jun 2001]
Share options: Has Vinnie Jones gone barking mad?
News Vinnie Jones is to front gobarkingmad.com's 24/7 dog racing gambling site, due to go live next week, and provide the punters with weekly tips. The famous footballer turned actor has been signed by gobarkingmad's parent,... [01 Jun 2001]
Australians to consider Net taxation
News Opie compared the situation to the evolving betting market, where bookmakers are setting up off shore gambling sites in places like Gibraltar to avoid nine per cent tax. Australian Treasurer, Peter Costello has said the... [28 Oct 1999]
Senate Committee bans online gambling
News The report is also widely expected to take a tough line on Net gambling. The US Senate Judiciary Committee has rubber stamped plans to make online gambling illegal. The move comes as the... [18 Jun 1999]
Is Microsoft playing to win?
Comment The only other explanation is that Microsoft is gambling that the DoJ won't keep up the momentum all the way to the Supreme Court. Many in the industry have noted that if Microsoft were, say, split into an applications... [23 Feb 1999]
Net gambling faces crucial test
News The Internet gambling industry is under fire after a Californian woman filed a lawsuit which could make it impossible to collect the $60m racked up every year in online wagers. Cynthia Haines is counter-suing a number of... [18 Aug 1998]
Net gambling issue opens transatlantic rift
News In an interview with Silicon News, Dorothy Gonsalves, head of the gambling section at the UK Home Office's Liquor, Gambling and Data Protection department, explained that provisionally, there is nothing... [29 Jul 1998]
