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How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News The revamped platform - along with a new 24-hour live betting service - went live earlier this year and can be plugged into third party websites to provide them with the same gaming functionality which they can then... [23 Oct 2009]
Will software be Motorola's saviour?
News Motorola is betting the company - or at least the mobile division - on its own blend of software and online services spread across a series of phones, rather than trying to mimic Apple's approach in... [15 Sep 2009]
Alien hunting, Windows through the ages and Christmas gifts
Photo Apparently, it's betting, with online betting exchange Betfair showing silicon.com how closely bets can reflect future outcomes from politics to football. Not so - it's aliens. The Hat... [22 Dec 2008]
Photos: How Betfair predicts the future
Photo Online betting exchange Betfair has revealed how its customers placed their bets on a number of recent events and how they reflected their eventual outcomes. The graph here shows the way people were... [22 Dec 2008]
Betfair hits jackpot with new CTO
News Online betting exchange Betfair has appointed a new CTO. Tony McAlister will join the company as chief technical officer from mobile content management company Motricity. Betfair's former CTO Rorie... [18 Dec 2008]
Betfair spins into financial trading
News Online betting exchange Betfair has spun off a new venture called Tradefair which it hopes will allow it to cash in on the retail derivatives space - a market it estimates is worth at least £650m per year. [10 Nov 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Mark Zuckerberg
News Because of Facebook's continued success we would expect Zuckerberg to make the Agenda Setters in 2008 - though we're not betting on another number one spot.silicon.com's Agenda Setters panel, made up again of CIOs,... [26 Sep 2008]
Internet betting a dead cert for William Hill
News Betting chain William Hill has reported half-year earnings showing its online growth outstripping the rise in its high street earnings more than four-fold.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Interestingly,... [01 Aug 2008]
Rorie Devine
CIO Profile Rorie Devine has just left Betfair, where he helped transform the online betting exchange's technology team during his five years there. Scalability and availability were the two big challenges for... [11 Jun 2008]
Betfair CTO moves on
News Betfair CTO Rorie Devine is leaving the company by "mutual consent" in an amicable parting of ways after five years at the online betting exchange. Betfair's CEO David Yu said Devine has transformed the... [21 May 2008]
Microsoft Online Customer Story: Nissan
White Paper Companies like Nissan are betting that while eye-catching graphics are generally a great way to get consumers' attention, they can go beyond the flash to provide a service. Nissan is the third largest japanese automobile... [16 Apr 2008]
Botnet Threats and Solutions: Phishing
White Paper Internal Revenue Service, and UK online betting firm Blue Square. Off late malicious attacks involving tens of thousands of virus-infected PCs worldwide have targeted major organizations such as... [29 Mar 2008]
Global Online Gaming Company Deploying SQL Server 2008 to Support 100 Terabytes
White Paper Sports enthusiasts around the world place up to 1 million bets per day using the online sports betting services of Gibraltar-based bwin International. Performance is paramount at bwin which hosts more... [24 Mar 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News Technical difficulties with a new online platform wiped £10.6m from the operating profit of high street betting chain William Hill's interactive channel for the year ended 1 January 2008. In a statement,... [27 Feb 2008]
Betfair Ensures IT Scalability and Performance to Support Explosive Growth of Online Betting Business
White Paper Betfair wanted to implement a scalable, high-performance, secure technology platform to support a 24/7, real-time online betting exchange with unmatched periods of spike intensity, no delay tolerance,... [09 Feb 2008]
