The French National Olympic and Sporting Committee has won its case against the online betting site Expekt.com at the Paris County Court.
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From next year, according to the British newspaper “The Sunday Mirror”, airline passengers will be able to log onto the 888 website and play games such as Blackjack, Roulette, Poker and Bingo.
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The casino operator Lucien Barrière is anticipating the coming liberalisation of internet casinos by subcontracting the development of its online 3-D gaming site in India.
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The Belgian group Circus will be offering record prize money of 1.2 million euros for the final round of the Belgian Poker Championships at the Namur casino from 17 to 25 November.
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The community website MySpace, owned by the media giant News Corp, has formed a partnership with Oberon Media for the launch of an online gaming channel in 2008.
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The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has officially declared that its country is preparing to enact an anti-gaming law based on the American model that would outlaw any financial transactions with companies offering online casino games, poker or sports betting.
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The European Communities Court of Justice (ECCJ) has given its verdict and found Italy guilty of a breach of the general principle of transparency and of the renewal of licences for betting on horse racing, in spite of the liberalisation of its market.
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France has benefited from an additional reprieve, giving it up to 29th October to find a compromise with the European Union over its sports betting policy.
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Second Life’s virtual economy is collapsing. Ginko, the virtual investment bank which collects Linden Dollars in Second Life has filed for bankruptcy and is incapable of honouring more than 200,000,000 Lindens deposited by its 20,000 members. This represents a real loss of $US 750,000.
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