UK bookies toe the US government line
News UK bookies are this week ruing a US decision to press on with attempts to stop Americans accessing overseas betting sites. The move will come as a major blow to online bookies for whom the US -- and its vast untapped population of would-be gamblers...
[May 9, 2003, 14:50]
Web bookies demand higher security standards
Talkback Theres more hackers in the world which are doubling and gettting even more clever.
[April 20, 2006, 14:33]
UK bookies toe the US government line
Talkback I can only hope that the uk goverment bring in some simerlar kind of enforcement to protect the uk family from the down side of online casino addiction ,for myself its to late with debts in 00000 to credit cards and uk banks etc
[January 28, 2004, 18:32]
Web bookies demand higher security standards
News Online gambling companies are urging ISPs to do more to prevent hackers disabling computers with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. An industry forum made up of the UK's biggest Web gambling firms has been lobbying Internet service...
[April 5, 2005, 16:55]
Extortionists target Web bookies with child porn threats
News Child pornography is the latest weapon being wielded by web-based extortionists who are targetting online betting firms with denial of service blackmail threats. Blackmailers warned UK-based online bookmaker Blue Square on Tuesday that they would...
[October 27, 2004, 13:45]
Computer tipster promises riches
News An Aussie IT researcher has written a computer program which predicts the outcome of sporting events with such alarming regularity that some have suggested it could make professional tipsters redundant and leave bookies severely out of pocket.
[December 16, 2002, 11:27]
Best in intranet design applauded
News A UK supplier of software to online bookies has been named alongside international giants such as Cisco and Procter & Gamble as operating one of the world's 10 best intranets. The list was put together by Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g), which is...
[March 8, 2005, 15:30]
UK pubs get Wi-Fi
News A company best-known for connecting machines in bingo halls, motorway service stations and bookies is launching a 3,000-site Wi-Fi network in the UK, the biggest roll out of the wireless LAN technology so far in Europe.
[March 6, 2003, 15:38]
The euro - beware of distant elephants
News Just a few weeks ago, there were bookies accepting euros at Cheltenham, and larger stores in and around the UK are training staff to deal with the euro. "Euro creep" is coming. In fact it's here. The invasion of the euro is slow but inexorable.
[March 28, 2002, 16:32]
Big Brother Files: Thursday
News Thomas who was an early front runner at 5 to 1 is now lagging behind on 8 to 1 -- but the bookies favour him as a marathon runner rather than a sprinter. "Scary Spice" Melanie now shares poll position with "Sister" Anna.
[July 20, 2000, 17:07]
The Week in Review: Fighting back against spam
News A company best known for connecting machines in bingo halls, motorway service stations and bookies is launching a 3,000-site Wi-Fi network in UK pubs, the biggest rollout of the wireless LAN technology so far in Europe.
[March 7, 2003, 13:26]
First Net gambling case goes to trial
News Cohen's attorney also will argue that since the law under which Cohen is being prosecuted is almost 40 years old and was written to prohibit bookies from accepting or transmitting bets by phone, it could not possibly apply to the Internet, which...
[February 16, 2000, 13:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Gravity waves are next at 6/1 -- the bookies originally had these at 500/1, which was far too good a bargain for physicists -- with the outsider being life on Saturn's moon Titan. Wednesday 1/9/2004 I'll vote for anything that gets people thinking...
[September 3, 2004, 18:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Let us hope that it's not spammers, virus writers, gangsters seeking to put the cyberpinch on bookies and those who surf the more exotic branches of human sexuality. Thursday 18/03/2004 The Internet took off when two things happened: the technology...
[March 19, 2004, 17:05]
