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Photo Former Seinfeld star and Celebrity Poker Showdown winner, Jason Alexander, checks out Microsoft's Surface technology at Harrah's casino in Las Vegas. The system was on show as part of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship where its many uses... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Microsoft Surfaces in Vegas
Photo Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer got a one-night gig on the Las Vegas Strip at Harrah's casino last week at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing party. Poker celebrities, and a few faces famous outside the game, got a glimpse of... [07 Mar 2008]
Video: Confessions of a serial entrepreneur
Video In this video, Skorman takes to the card table to show how business can be played like a game of poker. In the book Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman recounts the ups and downs of his high-stakes career. [25 Jan 2008]
David Yu
AS Profile Since taking over the hot seat, Yu has defied City market-watchers who feared the untested techie wasn't up to the job and has led Betfair's continued expansion into new territories, such as Australia and Malta, and into new products including... [12 Oct 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 27.07.07
Round-Up Podcast Man vs machine poker, mobile service provider monogamy and the dangers of social networking are all discussed in this week's silicon.com Weekly Round-Up podcast. Steve Ranger hosts and is joined in the studio by Natasha Lomas, Julian Goldsmith and... [27 Jul 2007]
Betfair taps Romania for offshore software skills
News Fletcher said they will be working on a new sporting platform, the booming poker and gaming products and support for the mobile platform. Online betting and gaming company Betfair has set up an offshore software development centre in Romania to... [28 Jun 2007]
US gambling ban challenged from within
News Those sites included ones like BetBug of Toronto; BetWWTS.com of Antigua; Bodog Sportsbook, and Casino and Poker of Costa Rica. Just six months after President Bush signed a law outlawing online gambling, a key Democratic politician has proposed... [27 Apr 2007]
Poker, IM most addictive web apps
News Online poker is the most addictive application on the internet among UK users, according to new research. Users of the most popular online app, Pacific Poker, spend an average of 10 hours and 17 minutes gaming per month. [16 Jan 2007]
Leader: Online gambling on a losing streak
Leader Some poker fans in the US are already talking about a new era of prohibition similar to the 1930s, with the Poker Players Alliance claiming the law will "push poker underground, essentially creating online speakeasies". [02 Oct 2006]
Worm warning: Beware staff surfing, says IDC
News He cited the case of a poker website that placed a Trojan horse on users' PCs when they downloaded the site's help program. Companies are now more likely to pick up malicious software via employee web surfing than from the more notorious email... [15 Sep 2006]
Has US online gambling had its chips?
News Tuesday's vote on the bill, which most House Democrats opposed and nearly all Republicans endorsed, is designed to target offshore websites that go by names such as BetBug of Toronto; BetWWTS.com of Antigua; Bodog Sportsbook, Casino and Poker of... [12 Jul 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study Coca-Cola also now has a Blackberry-friendly version of the poker game Texas Hold 'Em available for staff. With nearly 4,000 BlackBerrys across 75 countries and numerous carriers, Coca-Cola boasts one of the largest deployments of RIM's signature... [17 May 2006]
Online casino punters targeted by malware scams
News Earlier this week, Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure detected a potentially malicious rootkit application, which was being dropped onto users machines from poker community site CheckRaised.com when they downloaded a 'raketracker' tool - which... [17 May 2006]
Leader: Can online gambling clean up its act?
Leader Betfair.com, for example, is rightly held up as a stalwart of responsible, ethical gambling in the UK but even they have opened an operation in Malta in order to run an online poker game. London is to host a summit on online gambling with the... [17 Jan 2006]
Exposed: Dodgy domains spam message boards
News Many of the actual sites link through to more than one established poker site. They then include little more than links through to the websites, backed up with crude testimony such as "This is a great poker site", despite the fact none of the above... [11 Jan 2006]
