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Anne Lindner Gaming Guru - Page 7Power Struggle in the Philippines21 November 2002
A Philippine legislator is questioning the legitimacy of a license granted to Sports and Games Entertainment Inc. (SAGE) to offer online gambling in the country.
On Nov. 7, the Philippines Star reported that Sen. Robert Barbers told the lawmaking body that he is not happy with the fact that SAGE is ... (read more)
Visa Dismisses Talk of New Crackdown on I-Gaming20 November 2002
Visa U.S.A has confirmed to IGN that it has instituted new regulations for high-risk merchants, but that the measures will not affect online gambling vendors.
The new regulations became effective last Friday and entail Visa charging its member banks a $500 registration fee and annual $250 fee for every high-risk merchant they process for. ... (read more)
New House Bill Proposes Panel to Consider Regulation19 November 2002
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., today introduced a bill that would create a five-member commission to study the feasibility of making Internet gambling legal in the United States.
Industry analysts said the bill's main purpose is to spark a discussion on how online gambling could be regulated. The House ... (read more)
Bracing for the PayPal Freeze15 November 2002
Online gaming operators' payment processing woes are about to get a lot worse after Nov. 24, when PayPal stops processing Internet gambling transactions.
Person-to-person auction site eBay announced its intentions to acquire the e-cash system on July 8. At that time it also announced that once the ... (read more)
It's Not Rocket Science8 November 2002
One of the newer faces in online gambling software design is a small company in Glasgow, Scotland, that goes by the name It's Not Rocket Science.
INRS is a 22-person firm that made its name in standard Web design (home pages for corporations and the like). The company recently decided to tackle the ... (read more)
Administration Backs Leach31 October 2002
The White House officially backed the Leach anti-Internet gambling bill in a letter Monday to Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., the Senate majority leader.
The letter was written by Lawrence B. Lindsey, who the economic policy assistant to President George W. Bush.
"The bill protects families and gives terrorists one less place to hide their illicit funds."
-Rep. ... (read more)
I-Gaming Tax to Be Nixed in Antigua29 October 2002
The 3 percent tax on Internet gaming companies in Antigua and Barbuda is about to become history.
The abolishment has been proposed in the form of an amendment to the International Business Corporation Act. The amendment is being debated in the country's lower house of parliament.
Ronald Maginley, ... (read more)
Mobliss and the American Wireless Gaming Market25 October 2002
A software company based in Seattle, Wash. is doing its best to prepare U.S. wireless customers for the day when mobile phones can be used in the United States to gamble for real money.
Mobliss, which recently released a play-for-fun blackjack game, has developed a business model based on the premise that ... (read more)
Senate Recesses with Leach Bill Untouched18 October 2002
The U.S. Senate recessed yesterday until after the Nov. 5 elections without passing H.R. 556, the anti-Internet gambling bill proposed by Rep. James Leach, R-Iowa.
The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on Oct. 1. It would make Internet gambling illegal in the United States by updating the ... (read more)
European Bookmakers Assess Hong Kong Situation9 October 2002
The passage of a bill outlawing offshore, and therefore Internet, gambling in Hong Kong late last May may have driven some operators out of the market, but one thing seems for sure: the SAR is not done with I-gaming, and I-gaming is not done with it.
For one thing, international bookmaker Victor Chandler ... (read more)
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