I found some interesting PDF Files
about this industry.
1.Congress passes comprehensive spam legislation : the CAN-Spam
Act.
Overview
On the 8 of December, 2003, the United States Congress passed
the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography
and Marketing Act of 2003" also called the “CAN-Spam
Act” or “Act”.
President Bush has indicated that he will sign this and,
when he does so, the CAN-Spam Act will establish for the
first time a uniform national standard for the regulation
of commercial emails.
The Act defines commercial e-mail as any e-mail message
“the primary purpose of this email is the commercial
advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service.”
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2.What makes people trust online
gambling sites ? By Bhiru Shelat.
Abstract
"A validated model of trust was used as a framework
for an
empirical study to identify on- and offline factors that
influence gamblers’ perception of an online casino’s
trustworthiness. The results suggest that the quality with
which casinos address gamblers’ trust concerns by
providing appropriate content is the prime factor.
However, designing for trust must be part of a consistent
strategy that also involves customer service and usability."
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3.Internet Gaming - An industry
Survey
The Onion, a satirical Web-based magazine, recently ran
an article stating that members of the United States Congress
are threatening to resign en masse unless the Capitol building
is completely overhauled to include a retractable dome and
luxury skyboxes. Several days after publication, the item
appeared as a serious news piece in a Beijing newspaper.
The willingness to believe the worst of a given topic plagues
certain cultures. Take the Americans and Internet gaming.
What percentage of the industry’s many opponents, in
America and, indeed, globally, actually believe that some
very credible companies presently making money today in
Internet gaming applaud the trend toward tighter regulation?
Not only that, some of these same companies actually provide
operators
with the tools they need to verify a player’s age and
location and are using qualified third parties to insure
the integrity of the games and casino payouts.
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4.Focus on Microgaming.
Company profile
Microgaming is the leading developer of online gambling
systems. With the largest combined player base in the industry,
Microgaming faces the challenge of innovation while maintaining
its market dominance.
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5.New Trends in Online Gaming.
America bestrides the globe like a colossus, but its profile
in the Internet gaming industry is getting more antlike
by the day.
The sound you hear of footsteps in the background is that
of an entire portion of the gaming industry, still vital
and fast growing in many parts of the world, leaving the
lower 48 for more hospitable environs. The first and most
promising port of call: Europe. A study of Nielsen also
reveals that 14 millions of surfers have visited gambling
sites in Europe (see next article).
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6.Nielsen Study : online gambling
in Europe.
More than 14 millions european gamblers.
The latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings, the Internet
research specialists, reveals that more than 14 million
Europeans, or 14% of those online from home, visited a gambling
and sweepstakes site in February. Gambling and sweepstake
sites were most popular with French and Swedish surfers,
but have yet to make a mark in southern Europe, with less
than 10% of Spanish and Italians logging on to gamble.
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7.Who are Playtech ?
Playtech (a competitor of Microgaming) designs, develops
and deploys unified software platforms for the online gaming
industry. Founded in 1999, Playtech today has over 170 employees
distributed globally, around two-thirds of whom are engaged
in research and development of current and future gaming
technologies (see the getting started guide, about the download
and flash versions of the casino softwares).
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