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Punters urged to back broadband
News Internet gambling company Ukbetting is moving into Britain's broadband market, the company announced on Monday, saying broadband naturally complements its online games business. The firm is launching an ADSL product that will give subscribers a...
[November 17, 2003, 16:25]
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]
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. Furthermore, the Commission recommends the passage of legislation stating that any credit card debts incurred while gambling on the Internet...
[June 17, 1999, 9:27]
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]
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. Because lotteries are one of the most mainstream forms of gambling, the expected popularity of online...
[December 22, 1999, 10:35]
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. Internet gambling services (are) a haven for money...
[June 11, 2003, 10:32]
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]
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. Nevada lawmakers passed a bill Monday that will eventually clear the way...
[June 11, 2001, 9:32]
Greece warned over gaming 'mess'
News But according to Greek Web site Tech.flash.gr, the officers who had searched the cafes said during testimony that they did not observe any Internet gambling going on -- just chess and other non-gambling games over the Internet.
[July 24, 2003, 11:33]
US Report: Senate passes CDA II, filtering measure
News In addition, the Senate passed the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, a bill that would ban Internet gambling in the U.S. The Senate passed legislation to ban the open display of sexually explicit materials judged "harmful to minors" on the Internet.
[July 24, 1998, 10:33]
Greek gaming law defeated in court
News But according to Greek Web site Tech.flash.gr, the officers who had searched the cafes said during testimony that they did not observe any Internet gambling going on -- just chess and other non-gambling games over the Internet.
[September 11, 2002, 13:27]
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]
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]
First Net gambling case goes to trial
News Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.who is attempting to push a ban on Internet gambling through Congress. 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...
[February 16, 2000, 13:10]
Internet addicts surf on work time
News In addition, 2 percent of employees admit accessing pornography and 2 percent admit gambling online at work. While 78 percent of employers block employee access to pornography, only 47 percent block access to gambling sites, 20 percent block...
[August 23, 2002, 9:39]
Australian government may act on spam
News As with the Interactive Gambling Act, legislation may act to reduce or slow down problem activities whilst acknowledging that the global nature of the Internet makes complete control impossible," the report said.
[April 16, 2003, 9:25]
UK could gamble its way to top online spot
News Although the UK's broadband rollout is trailing behind all other technologically advanced European countries, the country could lead Europe in online consumer revenues by 2005 thanks to its relaxed attitude to gambling, according to research by...
[December 6, 2001, 13:56]
Greek government backs down on gaming
News Following widespread coverage and criticism of the new law, the government has issued guidelines to police making it clear that only games related to gambling are covered by the law. The law, which was hurriedly introduced to combat illicit...
[September 25, 2002, 11:05]
What good are 1,000 remote-controlled PCs? review
Reviews Elsewhere in Europe, where online gambling is thriving, thanks to passionate football fans, botnets have been used by extortionists to shut down (via denial-of-service attacks) lucrative gambling sites on the day of a big game.
[November 29, 2005, 7:55]
Energis goes head to head with Open over interactive TV
News The portal -- dubbed brightBlue -- will offer a virtual high street, giving users access to travel sites, financial services, gambling, gaming and shopping. Currently the most popular application of iDTV is gambling but email usage is also growing...
[May 21, 2001, 16:27]
