ONLINE GAMBLING BATTLE WILL CONTINUE

The association continues to push a bill by Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., calling for a one-year study of Internet gambling by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Berkley's bill has 73 co-sponsors.

NEW WEBSITE STATES ONLINE GAMBLING IN THE US IS NOT ILLEGAL

The website has been established to inform US players of their continued ability to enjoy playing on the Internet. They also describe how the law works and why it is still possible to gamble online.

OBAMA MAY HAVE VIOLATED LAWS REGARDING ONLINE GAMBLING

A spokesman for the Obama presidential campaign emphatically denied that the campaign's website is in any way online gambling, claiming that the 10 winners will be chosen based on the best individual history or story and is not online gambling, this was however not stated on the website.

BWIN RECEIVED UK PAYMENT PROVIDER LICENCE

The internet casino and gambling company is proud of being the first in the industry to expand into the financial market. They predict this move as an important strategic step for the company, and believe it will open up a lot of market options; they otherwise would not be able to enter.

WORKERS STOLE THE CASINO’S MOST VALUABLE TREASURE

Three casino workers in Atlantic City have been indicted for allegedly stealing a list of more than 20,000 players from the Tropicana Casino and Resort. According to some reports, the stolen list of gamblers was worth as much as $110 million.

ONLINE GAMBLING ON THE RISE IN NORWAY

According to a research, 12% of adult males living in Norway during 2007 were online casino gambling. This stands in stark contrast to the mere 2% of Norwegian females visiting the online casino in that year.

HOUSE COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON SUSPENDING UIGEA REGULATIONS

Representatives of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve System acknowledged at the hearing the challenges United States financial institutions will face in attempting to comply with UIGEA.

ONLINE CASINO OWNERS HIDING CRIMINAL RECORD

A new study has revealed that up to 15% of online casino owners hide a criminal record. This surprising news comes as a hard blow to the industry following several waves of bad publicity from anti-gambling groups.

SOUTH KOREA’S ONLINE GAMBLING INDUSTRY GROWING RAPIDLY

Online casino gambling has simply exploded around the world in recent years, taking both players and operators by storm. South Korea is just one of those places in which regardless of the illegality of online casino gambling, the nation is seeing a steady increase in the amount of online gamblers.

MICROSOFT’S NEW CASINO TECHNOLOGY HITS LAS VEGAS

Harrah's is the second business to have employed the new Microsoft touch screen computers following AT&T, and they are designed to essentially turn table-tops into touch screen computers.