Serbia – online gambling regulations coming

November 29, 2011

Tweet Serbia’s national association of gaming operators, JAKTA, are celebrating the news that their government will be introducing legislation that will pave the way for regulated online gambling in Serbia. Seems JAKTA have been doing a lot of work to convince the Serbian government that regulation is the way to go. President, Mirjana Acimovic, had...
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Roxy Palace – Welcome aboard

November 29, 2011
Roxy Palace – Welcome aboard

Tweet Roxy Palace are one of the older Microgaming casinos, taking their first online bet back in 2002.  But they are new to live dealers having only recently added then to their site…and they’ve done a good job of it too by the looks. The Roxy Palace live casino has been given prominence on the...
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Playtech’s £100 million placing – hedge your bets

November 27, 2011
Playtech’s £100 million placing – hedge your bets

Tweet Playtech already lay claim to being the world’s largest (by market cap.) online casino software company and it looks like they want to get a little bigger with the announcement of a £100 million share issue. 46.5 million shares will be offered to the public at a slight discount to Playtech’s (PTEC) current share...
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New instant casino for 888

November 23, 2011
New instant casino for 888

Tweet 888 put out a release today telling the world they’ve launched a new instant casino with (in their words), “smooth transitions, amazing graphics and sleek new games”. Happy for them, but I wasn’t overly excited by the news until skim reading further into the piece and seeing that they are giving their live games...
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EU Parliament votes for online gambling coordination and common standards

November 15, 2011
EU Parliament votes for online gambling coordination and common standards

Tweet You’d be forgiven for thinking that the only focus of the EU Parliament right now is how to save the Greece and Italy from bankruptcy.  Not so. Today the European Parliament voted in favour of more coordination and common standards with respect to online gambling, adopting the measures recommended in the Creutzmann report. Online...
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Is HTML5 the future of live casino game delivery?

November 14, 2011
Is HTML5 the future of live casino game delivery?

Tweet According to NetroMedia’s manager of technical services William Heatherington it is. NetroMedia provide video streaming technology services and they’ve been engaged by platform developer Visionary iGaming to add five new video streams by the end of this year – so they’re obviously pretty familiar with the challenges and complexities of delivering live games to players’...
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