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A 30 year old man died in an internet cafe in Guanzhou, China, due to what state run media reports as excessive internet gaming. After playing for three days solid, the man collapsed and died in front of over 100 other internet surfers.

Paramedics failed to resuscitate the man who the Beijing News state collapsed from exhaustion on Saturday after his three day binge. He was declared dead on the premises. This is the first death linked directly to internet gaming to have been officially recorded.

This tragic event highlights the dangers of both gaming and internet addiction. It is reported that China has over 142 million internet users, which is second only to the USA. The average time spent on the internet in China is increasing by an estimated 30% per year, and this trend is reflected globally.

The effects of the internet and online gaming is being researched and investigated by charities and organisations such as GamCare and eCogra. Online gaming companies are certainly implementing more preventative measures and focusing on being certificated by regulatory bodies.

So this means that internet gaming companies are taking a more serious look into social responsibility. But when tragedies like this can happen, can this be considered enough?

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LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Online gambling software firm Playtech (PTEC.L: Quote, Profile , Research) said its finance director was to leave as it posted first-half revenues within touching distance of levels before gaming firms were rocked by an effective U.S. ban last year.

Playtech, which provides gaming Web sites with games like poker, blackjack and roulette, said revenues from casino games was $32.6 million in the six months to end June with revenues of $10.5 million from poker.

It said it had a healthy pipeline of new business for the second half of the year and finance director Shuki Barak had asked to leave the firm for personal reasons.

The firm said his successor would be announced shortly and Barak would stay on to ease the handover.

As the company had earlier indicated, overall group revenues were $44 million, down just 2.2 million from a year ago before an effective U.S. ban on online gambling closed off the world’s biggest gaming market.

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Viaden Media, game production company, member of High Technologies Park in Belarus, W3C and International Chamber of Commerce, has recently claimed its rights to an intellectual property subject Texas Holdem poker software “Internet Online Poker”.

The software is a system of multifunctional real time on-line poker game Texas Holdem. Poker-client is client program developed using the Macromedia Flash technology and realized in a window interface. It is an executable exe-file to be downloaded and executed by players on their computers. The poker-client realizes the following: connection with the poker-server, user registration and authorization, display of tables list, tournaments and information on them, possibility to view a game and take participation in it, possibility to take part in tournaments, account management – possibility to deposit or withdraw money, player profile management, view statistics on games and tournaments results, and even to choose accessories and clothes! The software also includes an administration area to manage games, tournaments, players, and check statistics, poker server and a website. The software, developed by Viaden Media is easy to use and unique by technologies used for its development.

On May 25, 2007 the High Technologies Park Administration in cooperation with the patent services unitary enterprise “Belpatentservice” of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a workshop devoted to the issues of depositing and licensing of software applications for the residents of the High technologies Park and for the members of the scientific and technological association Infopark. The participants of the workshop, Viaden Media representative among them, got acquainted with the possibilities of ensuring formal proofs that the author or the copyright holder does have copyright for the developed software products. Representatives of “Belpatentservice” also highlighted the aims of identification and depositing of software applications and dwelled on the procedure of depositing.
Based on documents provided and software examination made by “Belpatentservice”, July 4th, 2007, Viaden Media was given a certificate on depositing an intellectual property subject “Internet Online Poker” to confirm its exclusive rights on this software.

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Now a new option, the possibility to test casino games developed by Viaden Media and available for sale, has become available for casino buyers.

Viaden Media, game production company, member of W3C, International Chamber of Commerce and High Technologies Park of Belarus, proudly declares its slogan: “Every Client is The Most Important”. To serve better, to please their clients, to help customers make their choice and buy with confidence, Viaden Media launches a test demo of casino games for sale. With this possibility casino buyers can play flash demo of Black Jack, Multihand BlackJack, Craps, Keno, Roulette, Slots and etc.(no download required) to check games design, games strategies and even sounds!

This can be considered as a forward step to simplify customers’ process of making choice and as a result it leads to casino buyers satisfaction. This is a mission of Viaden Media: to see their clients happy, to give them more that they expect!

To play game you need to visit Games page and click on a game you would like to play. You will see a page with this game rules and a screenshot of the game with a link PLAY DEMO. Just click on it and make sure you got pop-up enabled. Enjoy!

*If you have any further questions or require more information regarding casino software developed by Viaden Media, please, contact sale representatives.

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July 4th, 2007, Viaden Media became a full member of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Viaden Media, member of W3C and a High Technologies Park of Belarus, is the first and the only Belarusian company-member of ICC.

ICC is the most influential, popular and trustworthy international non-governmental organization that works to promote and support global trade and globalization processes. ICC membership groups thousands of companies, such as British American Tabacco, IBM, Mitsubishi, Occidental Petroleum, Pirelli, Pfizer, Shell, Thomas Cook, etc., of every size in over 130 countries worldwide. They represent a broad cross-section of business activity including manufacturing, trade, services and the professions. Through membership of ICC, companies shape rules and policies that stimulate international trade and investment. These companies in turn count on the prestige and expertise of ICC to get business views across to governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as WTO, U.N.O. and others, whose decisions affect corporate finances and operations worldwide. ICC has direct access to national governments worldwide through its national committees among others, making helpful suggestions on how to create the most favourable climate for international business development.

ICC contributes significantly by creating a wide range of documents to control activity in all economic spheres. Incoterms, standard trade definitions most commonly used in international sales contracts, can be considered the brightest example of ICC activity. A significant function of the International Chamber of Commerce is also the preparation and promotion of its Uniform Customs and Practice Documentary Credits (UCP), a set of rules on the issuance and use of letters of credit. The UCP has substantially universal effect. Devised and published by the International Chamber of Commerce, Incoterms, UCP along with other ICC rules are at the heart of world trade.

International Chamber of Commerce also serves as an advocate of world business in the global economy. The ICC International Court of Arbitration is the most respected service of its kind in the world. Its voluntary rule-writing for business spreads best practice in areas as varied as banking, marketing, anti-corruption and environmental management. Their policy-making and advocacy work keeps national governments, the United Nations system and other global bodies apprised of the views of the world business on some of the most pressing issues of the day. (more…)

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Macau is rapidly transforming itself into a jewel of Asia by abandoning its image of a sleazy gambling mecca for something more wholesome. Consultant Ben Lee says competition is the driving force. “Since Stanley Ho’s 40-year casino monopoly was broken, the number of licenses to operate casinos has increased to three,” he said. “But since Macau allows sublicenses, or licenses sold to third parties, the actual number of casino licenses has increased to six.” That, he says, triggered heated competition among casino owners, and as a result, Macau’s gambling revenue has outstripped Las Vegas’ in just three years.

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Following its decision to withdraw previously agreed to online gambling commitments, the United States will face seven compensation claims from World Trade Organization members, under WTO rules.

The Casino City Times news website reported this morning that official claims had been lodged by Antigua and Barbuda, the European Union, India, Costa Rica, Canada, Macau and Australia. The claims have been made in response to the US deciding to exclude online gambling from its 1995 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) schedule, after losing their appeal over a WTO decision after Antigua claimed the US had broken their agreement in regards to online gambling. (more…)

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The European Commission will this week officially censure France, Sweden and Greece over their protectionist policies to relating to gambling, the Online-Casinos website reported today.

Last year, the EC initiated infringement proceedings under Article 226 of the Treaty on European Union against seven EU member states over concern their policies towards the gambling industry were protectionist in nature. The EU member states being investigated by the EC all had state-sponsored gambling monopolies whilst at the same time preventing privately-owned gambling companies from operating freely. This is a clear violation of EU rules governing the free movement of trades and services.

The EC CasinoRoom $100 bonus has made their position abundantly clear: as an EU member state, you do not have to allow gambling in your country, but you cannot run a state gambling monopoly and prevent other European gambling companies from providing competition.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has already ruled in favor of a private bookmaking company operating in Italy without an Italian license. However, the men had a UK gambling license, and the ECJ ruled their prosecution by Italian police was not compatible with EU laws.

The ECJ could be where France, Sweden and Greece eventually end up if they ignore this week’s European Commission warning. The Online-Casinos source said the EC will be given final warnings to Paris and Stockholm on Wednesday before taking them to the European Court of Justice.

The EC also has proceedings underway against Austria, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy and Finland.

With the EC on the warpath against countries who appear willing to thumb their noses at EU free trade laws, state-sponsored gambling monopolies in Europe appear to have only a limited lifespan.

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$50,000 have been recently stolen from one of Macao casinos.

Casino employees who worked that day are under suspicion as 50,000 Hong Kong dollars egual to 6,250 USD dollars had disappeared from their casino rooms.

Security cameras records were carefully examined and as a result a 38 years old woman was arrested. Police conducted a search in her house and found cash which could had been exchanged for those stolen chips. Investigation to be continued….

I’m just thinking, how can be online casino robbed if it got all the data encoded…. :)) do you know the answer?

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