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I’ll not make a sensation by saying that we live in the era of technology, when mobile devices start replacing most of other electronic devices. Contemporary PDAs and cell phones keep getting more advanced with better processing capabilities, high end fully colored display and wireless Internet connection. What can really make a sensation are mobile casinos. Mobile betting has changed our traditional view on remote gambling, as it provides big fans of gamble games anytime and anywhere access to the world of real money gambling. Now we offer you to go wireless with our mobile casino solutions and offer iPhone and iPad users gamble at your casino for real money.

It is obvious that to stay on a competitive edge in the remote gambling market it is needed to offer your gamblers new options for entertainment. Adding new games and enhancing your online casino functionality is a good way of attracting loyal players to your online casino. But no doubt that online gamblers will love your online gambling service, if you go wireless. Occupying a one more domain of the remote gambling industry will lead to fast increase of players amount and your revenues as a result.

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Viaden Media has released 8 new games to be included into the standard casino package. All the new games are the widest played variations of popular casino games such as casino poker, poker machines, and Black Jack. New enhanced graphics and games rules are sure to not leave any online casino gambler indifferent. Loyal gamblers attraction to your casino is now easier than ever, as the new games are rich in graphics, fast in performance, and exciting in their gameplay.

We, at Viaden Media, struggle to stay on the highest competition level and stand out against the competitors. Even previously known for a wide range of the online casino games, offered for sale, now Viaden Media boasts of the most extensive online casino software package ever. The new games list includes the following games:

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Viaden Base Poker Software, which has already been acknowledged by many online poker rooms operators for its reliability and high performance, was released in a new updated version. Viaden Poker Base 2.0 is a large step forward towards introducing exceptional perfection of the poker software solution we sell. The whole development team of Viaden Media was working hard to release it in time in accordance to production plan. All our team is proud to meet all the deadlines and objectives.

Prior to start the work on enhancing the existing solution we have carried out a thorough research of our clients requests, collected comprehensive data about most demanded online poker features, and carried out detailed analysis of our most progressive competitors. The preliminary audit resulted in creation a feature-rich version, enhanced with functionality, created upon request of most of our clients. It is important to state that the 2.0 version is much faster, more performing and stable if compared to the previous one. And, what is crucially important, the upgraded client functions in a more user friendly manner, saving Internet traffic.

One of the main advantages of the Viaden Base Poker 2.0, if compared to competitors’ software and the previous version of Viaden software, is the web-based poker client feature. Now a poker website owner can choose the way of poker gameplay organizing. The client can be presented in either a standard form of downloadable executive file or a non-downloadable web-application. This choice helps us to better meet every requirement and business objective of every client of ours.

The new poker software can be tested at the demo page.

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This post should start with an announcement that the name of a previous one is a lie. Viaden Media does not have three certificates of integrity from the most reputable independent testing facilities. Viaden Media has actually obtained THREE of them. We are proud to receive another Random Number Generator certificate. This time we suffered through a long certification way of iTech Labs due diligence testing.

I can’t but mention that the certification process was hard enough, but our RNG managed to pass all the tricky tests successfully. Though it is not the first time when our software is subjected to a thorough testing and audit, we always think about the success as of a victory of ours. Viaden Media is aimed at keeping its reputation of a reliable business partner focused on delivery of the most reliable software solutions, supreme in their quality. We create our software focusing on the main requirements imposed on casino solutions by all highly-regulated jurisdictions.

iTech Labs has evaluated shuffling for single deck (without joker and with 1 and 2 jokers), 4 decks, 6 decks and 8 decks of cards (all without jokers). iTech Labs has also conducted scaling tests for Dice games, Roulette games (American and European), Keno game, Bingo game and Spinning reel games (slots). The shuffling and scaling tests were conducted on large enough samples to give the calculations sufficient statistical power.

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After approximately two decades after the first casino started its business in Russia, Russian government has banned gambling across most of its territory forcing casino owners drive the industry underground. All casinos and slot-machine halls are outlawed from the day the ban has come into effect in June 2009. With the exception of four far-flung special zones, no gambling is now allowed across the Russian Federation.

An unjust and ill-thought out carpet ban on casinos has resulted in people seeking an alternative! (more…)

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Kentucky, a haven for gamblers who want to bet on horse racing, has hit a setback in its efforts to stop unregulated online casino gambling. In a 2-1 ruling Tuesday, the Kentucky Court of Appeals said the state does not have the jurisdiction to seize 141 online casinos’ Internet domain names in an effort to keep them from operating in the state. The ruling also said a Franklin Circuit Court judge cannot hold further hearings on the issue. “This is a tremendous victory for Internet freedom and the rights of Kentucky residents who enjoy playing online poker,” said John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, in a statement. It has been estimated that about 13,000 Kentuckians play the online casinos. Jay Blanton, a spokesman for Gov. Steve Beshear, said the state did not receive the ruling until late Tuesday. “We want to take some time to review it. No decision has yet been made on whether to appeal it to the state Supreme Court,” Blanton said. (more…)

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Barney Frank – the chairman of the US Financial Services Committee – has introduced a bill that would legalize and regulate online gambling in the country. The bill is called the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act of 2009 (IGRCPEA). Though this new law can be considered similar to Frank’s previous bill called Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007, it is a more through carefully worked out law, where the main emphasis is laid on customer protection. This emphasis can convince oppositionist of online gambling legalization of the necessity of adopting the bill. The viewpoint of the previous law opponents was based on the children and problem gamblers concern. But the additions to the newly created bill carefully stipulate those controversial aspects.

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Due to its strong legislative framework the Isle of Man gambling jurisdiction has always been considered a model for all legal bodies that have a right to issue online gambling licenses. Licensing of online gambling businesses is controlled by the department of Trade and Industry, thus, ensuring fair work of online gambling business operators.

Notwithstanding its being a trustful leader, the Isle of Man jurisdiction claimed to introduce new rules and regulation standards to the e-gaming licensing process and further-going control over the licensees. (more…)

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Last hours of 2008 online I spent searching for something interesting related to the poker industry impact on world economy. Here is what I found: lately Swedish Lund University is about to start a special reserch programm to learn the way the Internet affects teens’ life in Sweeden.

MySpace, The Pirate Bay and the Svenska Pokerförbundet (swedish poker association) are partners of the University according to this research plan, which consists of in-depth interviews with teens.

Questions regarding students’ attitudes and habits related to such activities as placing images in the internet, playing online poker and data sharing. It is believed by researchers that processes in the internet differs a lot from those in a regular traditioanl society, developing youth people views on virtual ownership rights, money things and privacy protection. The researchers plan to compare results in Sweden and other European countries and to learn how other countries handle regulations in the Internet.

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There is no doubt that 2008 year was very exciting in gambling industry.

In brief:

Jackpots
In August 2008, one lady from Canada won stratospheric platinum when she won the Beach Life Progressive Jackpot at Joyland Casino. When the slots stopped spinning, she was surprised to see that her winning had racked more than 4mln USA dollars.

Business
Casino operators and affiliate programs: people who think up those promotions we constantly seek – have also made some major moves. (more…)

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