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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 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 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 the US where online gambling is illegal. Last summer Linden Lab stepped up security checks and banned gambling and...
[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]
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 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. The Web has no shortage of games - or people to play them with.
[10 Oct 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]
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 Just six months after President Bush signed a law outlawing online gambling, a key Democratic politician has proposed lifting the ban. Frank argues that because nearly all states already permit some form of traditional gambling - including...
[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]
News UK workers have already taken to gambling online, according to separate research from TNS, commissioned by consultancy Morse - with 30 per cent of workers betting in the office or claiming they knew someone who had.
[15 Jan 2007]
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. We need to continue to monitor their progress, building on our coverage of the ID...
[21 Dec 2006]
News It wasn't the best of years for online gambling sites, to say the least, as new US legislation made it unlawful for credit card companies to collect payments for transactions with US online gambling sites.
[18 Dec 2006]
News The UK online gambling industry is ignoring customer enquiries and failing to offer adequate customer service, new research has found. Out of the 100 UK online gambling sites contacted by customer services company Talisma, only 60 per cent replied...
[27 Nov 2006]
News But the in-flight online gambling will be dependent on European regulatory approval for the mobile phone service, which is due to launch by the middle of 2007 and will allow passengers to make and receive voice calls and SMS messages via satellite...
[02 Nov 2006]
News Online gambling has more than doubled in the last five years with nearly one million Britons regularly logging on and placing bets. Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport said the research shows online gambling is on the rise...
[01 Nov 2006]
News Bad news continues to dominate the online gambling sector as betting sites 888 and Partygaming have been demoted on prestigious FTSE stock indices. Other online gambling businesses are also having a tough time on the stock market, following the...
[11 Oct 2006]
News This will take the form of more 'in-game' gambling where customers can bet on things like how many kicks of the ball before the next goal or, when a penalty is awarded, whether it will be saved or not.
[04 Oct 2006]
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]
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