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Gambling sites beat the dot-com downturn
News Internet gambling is one trade that is booming despite the current atmosphere of dotcom gloom, according to Web traffic monitoring company Jupiter MMXI Thursday. While many dot-coms are forced to cut back in order to survive market coldness towards...
[January 18, 2001, 13:43]
Gambling predicted to drive interactive TV
News Interactive TV is beginning to take off as research firm Jupiter MMXI finds that gambling has become the surprise killer application and predicts that by 2005 more people will access the Internet through their TV than through their PC.
[May 17, 2001, 8:04]
Google and Yahoo sued over gambling ads
News Some gambling ads on Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites are illegal in California, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The 60-page filing, presented in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that the companies sell rights to Web...
[August 4, 2004, 9:20]
New trading service revives gambling debate
News A new online trading service launched in the UK today by Wall Street company Donaldson, Lufkin & Jentrette (DLJ) has sparked renewed debate as to whether this will lead to a boom in online gambling. When Freeserve announced plans to launch an...
[September 1, 1999, 12:56]
Online gambling ban advised to protect minors
News Following a two year study into social and economic impacts of gambling, the government-mandated group made a list of recommendations that will be presented to President Clinton, Congress, state governors and American Indian tribal leaders on June...
[June 7, 1999, 9:33]
US commission to recommend ban on Net gambling
News A U.S.government commission is set to raise the stakes in the high-profile battle over Internet gambling. On Friday, the nine-member National Gambling Impact Study Commission will recommend a complete ban of online wagering, and laws that wipe out...
[June 17, 1999, 9:27]
Siemens bets on mobile gambling
News It's been the one sure thing in gambling: you can't bet on the outcome of a sports contest once it's begun. But some major casinos, already contending with Internet gambling's in-roads, say even with a legal fix, live betting might not be worth it...
[August 14, 2002, 11:48]
First Net gambling case goes to trial
News The case also is likely to have consequences for the young but rapidly growing Internet gambling industry, which at last count consisted of approximately 650 Web sites that take bets on sports contests and casino-style games of chance.
[February 16, 2000, 13:10]
US tries again to outlaw online gambling
Talkback The US should just accept that online gambling exists and figure out a way to regulate it instead of fight it.
[September 26, 2003, 21:54]
UK gambling company warns of DDoS-attack risk
News A major UK gambling business has warned that all commercial websites are at risk from a new type of unstoppable and undetectable botnet denial-of-service attack. Gala Coral e-commerce's gambling sites were taken down for almost 30 minutes by the...
[March 7, 2008, 14:04]
Littlewoods offers tax-free Online gambling
News Littlewoods has decided to carry the tax burden in an effort to set itself apart from other online gambling sites. The new service, called www.bet247.co.uk, lets users gamble on sport, the pools, the National Lottery and Littlewood's own lottery...
[March 13, 2000, 14:27]
High-tech gambling predicted to boom
News The popularity of gambling on the Internet and through digital TVs in the UK is set to boom over the next few years, according to analysts on Thursday. Datamonitor predicts that by 2005 there will be 1.4 million Britons betting through their...
[June 14, 2001, 14:30]
PayPal settles gambling allegations
News PayPal will pay the US government $10m (£6.16m) to settle allegations that it knowingly transferred funds to unlawful offshore gambling sites. Raymond Gruender, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, said in a statement that "offshore...
[July 28, 2003, 12:21]
MSN UK partners with gambling site
News Microsoft's UK portal has inked a two-year marketing deal to provide advertising and promotions for an online casino, Web-based gambling company Gaming Internet said Friday. Online gambling has caught the attention of everyone from Web users to...
[June 11, 2001, 9:32]
British gambling sites hit by extortion threats
Talkback How is this supposed to work? In real life protection rackets actually have the ability to protect their clients. The victim will only have to pay one gang and should be ensured safety as long as that gang stays on top.
[February 2, 2004, 11:24]
Google and Yahoo sued over gambling ads
Talkback More lawyers smelling easy money.
[August 4, 2004, 10:35]
IT directors not gambling on security
News Half of IT directors are willing to bet less than £1 that their IT systems are safe from hacker attack, according to a series of surveys from data solutions firm CMG Admiral. At three different security events -- the South West Insurance Forum, the...
[July 6, 2001, 13:59]
Global online lotteries to hit jackpot
News Online lotteries will be the most popular form of Internet gambling within four years, according to new research published by Datamonitor. The report, titled "Online games and gambling in Europe and the US, 1999-2004", concludes that, although...
[December 22, 1999, 10:35]
Mobile adult sites face hacking threats
News Network operators and companies looking to provide pornography or gambling-related Internet content for mobile phones may face the same extortion attacks that have plagued online providers, according to analyst group Gartner.
[October 24, 2005, 16:55]
US agrees ban on offshore casino access
News The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday evening to slap broad restrictions on Internet gambling by targeting credit cards and bank accounts that Americans use to pay offshore casinos. Michael Oxley, chairman of the Financial Services...
[June 11, 2003, 10:32]
