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Rob van der Gaast Gaming Guru - Page 14German Cartel Warns Lottery Companies23 June 2006
The Bundeskartellamt, German Federal Cartel Office, has issued a warning letter to the regional lottery companies and the German Lotto and Toto Block (Deutscher Lotto- und Totoblock, DTLB) on account of several violations of German and European competition law.
The warning concerns three forms of conduct:
1. ... (read more)
Eye on Europe20 June 2006
4tune -- Estonia-based Fortuuna.ee, an Internet gaming site offering fixed-odds sports betting and lottery games, launched a mobile betting service just before the start of the World Cup. The mobile delivery is enhanced with EGET's XTML-based mobile solution, which enables players to bet on exactly the same matches or events that are available online. ... (read more)
M-News Briefs13 June 2006
Numbers
The world's mobile carrier club, the GSM Association, said this week that the number of GSM users worldwide has reached 2 billion, or just over 30 percent of the world's population. The association said new users are signing up at the rate of 1,000 per minute (around 18 per second). According to ... (read more)
Eye on Europe - June 12, 200612 June 2006
Random? -- A French businessman, Robert Riblet, is convinced that La Française Des Jeux, the National Lottery, is cheating. The lottery states in its official information that the scratch cards with prizes are printed on a random basis, but Riblet claims he can prove that this is not the case, and he ... (read more)
Eye on Europe - June 5. 20065 June 2006
Gambling Czechs -- Tomáš Prouza, the Czech finance minister, recently stated that the Czech Republic's gambling market in 2005 was US$4.2 billion--a 7.2 percent increase over 2004. More than a half of the revenues came from fruit machines. Growth areas are lotteries, odds betting and gaming machines. ... (read more)
Mobile Gambling - Scaling Back the Estimates1 June 2006
Juniper Research has published its third report on mobile gambling. When we reviewed the second edition in February 2005, we titled the article "Mobile Gambling - A Future Money Machine," but perhaps this very optimistic view should be adjusted.
While Juniper's 2005 report projected the combined mobile ... (read more)
Eye on Europe - May 30, 200630 May 2006
Birthday Party? -- France's national lottery, La Francaise des Jeux, last week celebrated the 30th anniversary of the launch of its national lottery, its key product. It sounds a little strange though to have such a party considering that an official document of the LFDJ mentions that the "création de la Loterie Nationale" took place in 1933. ... (read more)
Insights: Italy's Dueling Verdicts30 May 2006
In the land of Lottomatica S.p.A., Sisal S.p.a, Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato and the blacklisted foreign sports betting Web sites, we were nearly forgetting the Bruno Corsi and Placanica cases.
The Italian Supreme Court's April 2004 ruling in the Corsi case went directly against the ... (read more)
EGET's Total Gaming Concept25 May 2006
Finnish digital gaming services and solutions supplier European Game and Entertainment Technology Ltd. (EGET) this week announced two key areas of expansion: the unveiling a turnkey software package and the creation of a new subsidiary to focus on mobile gambling.
The new software system, called "EnterGainment," is a total turn-key solution with a wide range of games. ... (read more)
Italy's Gambling Blacklist24 May 2006
The Italian government continues its battle against online betting and gaming Web sites, including those based in the European Union. The new Italian Budget Law 2006 requires Italian Internet services providers to block access to "unauthorized" gaming operators.
Under Italian law, gaming is divided into ... (read more)
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