China will crack down on gambling on the Internet during the football World Cup and will “severely punish” anyone caught betting online, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on its Web site yesterday. Law enforcement agencies have investigated more than 740 online gambling cases and arrested more than 3,600 people since starting [...]
World Cup forces China to Crack Down on Online Gambling
June 15th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: china · sports betting · world cup
State Specific Suits Make Way Through Courts
March 24th, 2009 No Comments
Appeals court says no to online poker in Washington when it rejected Lee Rousso’s arguments that a 2006 law that forbids Internet gambling in the state violates the clause of the U.S. Constitution that gives the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce. The unanimous decision by three judges of division I of the [...]
Tags: Jon Corzine · New Jersey · Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 · sports betting · Washington
3G iPhone Confirmed for Summer Launch
April 30th, 2008 No Comments
A few months ago we pontificated about what better, faster more connected mobile phones will mean for mobile gaming and mobile gambling, with three major roadblocks, which included need for better mobile phone handsets and the innovative devices, more investment by casinos into mobile gambling and lack of software for casinos who do want to [...]
Tags: iphone · mobile gambling · sports betting
