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Horoscope for the Week of March 5, 2004

Tip of the Week: Pisces is a very special sign in the Zodiac. Most Astrology text books refer to it as the twelfth and last sign. In many respects it is. However, it can also be seen as the first sign! You see, Pisces is the sign of the collective subconscious...read more

All of Carib's Funds Completely Restored

Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh of Belize has ordered the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to cease its freeze on Carib Sports' checking accounts because the U.S. had requested the freeze before it was prepared prosecute on laundering charges. The freeze was originally put into place last Thursday because the United States Department of Justice informed Belize's FIU that it had strong evidence indicating that the sports book was engaged in money laundering...read more

Horoscope for the Week of February 29, 2004

Tip of the Week: Many Astrologers associate Astrology with the Zodiac signs Aquarius and Pisces. Aquarius is metaphysical and Pisces is mystical. The ruling planets for these signs are Uranus and Neptune. Currently these planets are in what is technically a "Mutual Reception" with Uranus in Pisces, the sign that rules Neptune and Neptune in Aquarius, the sign that rules Uranus...read more

RTG: 'No Flaws in Caribbean 21'

Software provider Real Time Gaming (RTG) has advised its licensees to bring its Caribbean 21 game back online after the company took it down in early January for an extensive analysis. The company was concerned that there may have been a flaw in the relatively new game because some players were able to amass very large winnings...read more

Horoscope for the Week of February 22, 2004

Tip of the Week: The Sun is now in Pisces in conjunction with Uranus, from the vantage point of the Earth. This will bring energy to creative genius, flashes of intuitive insight and strange behaviour and events occurring unexpectedly...read more

The New Isle of Man

Months after the Isle of Man's demise as a premier I-gaming center, the jurisdiction has made numerous changes to return to being a desirable tier-one destination. The revamp has also included the welcoming of IT and entertainment businesses outside the I-gaming space...read more

Playboy and the Past and Future of Gambling

The story of the rise, fall and recent rebirth of Playboy as a gaming company shows us not only where legal gambling has come from, but also where it is going. Although Playboy started as a girlie magazine in the 1950s, Hugh Hefner grew it into an empire which, at its height, had clubs and casinos. The company collapsed when it failed to change with the times...read more

Skill Games Battle Settled in Missouri

The Missouri Gaming Commission is no longer trying to revoke the temporary supplier's license of Sierra Design Group now that the company's subsidiary, Arcade Planet, has completely shut down its skill games platform at prizegames.com. Sierra maintained that the games offered on the prizegames.com Web site were skill based, while the commission argued that they were games of chance...read more

Horoscope for the Week of February 15, 2004

Tip of the Week Venus and Jupiter adorning our night skies is a blessing for Valentine's Day. These two bright sparklers in the heavens indicate benevolence and love. Jupiter is classically the greater benefic and Venus the lesser in Astrology...read more

Hackers Go for Super Bowl Gold

Just a few days before Super Bowl XXXVIII, online sports books were preparing for a record number of bets placed, but the anticipation must have been mixed with anxiety. Half a year of an escalating frequency of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and the fastest-spreading computer virus of all time were looming...read more