Gambling911 – A 19-year-old man has been arrested in Argentina for allegedly hacking into online gambling sites and payment processors. Dubbed “the superhacker”, the teenager was making $50,000 (£31,500) a month, working from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, police told the Reuters. Police actually shut down power to the suspect’s neighborhood in order to prevent the deletion of sensitive data. The unidentified man and his accomplices utilized thousands of dummy computers to attack targets with malware viruses. The police operation, which occurred following a year long investigation, included five raids in the capital and the city of Rosario, about 300km…

Gaming Intelligence – The UK’s Committee of Advertising Practice Code has amended the gambling section of the CAP Code following a public consultation, which will give betting operators “a narrow and targeted exemption” by allowing them to use individuals under the age of twenty-five in marketing communications. The consultation was launched in December 2012 after concerns were raised by online gaming industry body the Remote Gambling Association (RGA), over the extension of the CAP Code’s remit to regulate gambling advertising. SOURCE

iGaming Business – Interactive gaming company NetPlay TV has posted a 47% year-on-year increase in profit before tax to £2.3 million (€2.7 million/$3.6 million) in the first half of 2013. NetPlay TV said that a 36% increase in net revenue, from £10.4 million to £14.2 million, had helped earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to rise by 17% from £2.3 million to £2.7 million. A 31% increase in new depositing players (to 32,618) was the key driver behind the impressive results. However, NetPlay TV’s increasing investment in new media platforms has also seemingly reaped rewards, with mobile and tablet…

Communication services provider mobileStorm and mobile location data company Locaid have joined forces to launch two new products aimed at strengthening mobile marketing techniques in the casino resort and online gaming industries. According to the Mobile Marketing Watch website, the location-based SMS Messaging and Appmail services have been designed for “revolutionising casino mobile marketing”. The two firms claim the new offerings will offer the “most advanced” geo-location messaging services to the casino gaming industry. Utilising the location-based technology, SMS Messaging will automatically detect a consumer’s geo-position and deliver relevant, real-time offers to them. In addition, Appmail has been designed to…

Japan gaming is ready to climb Mount Fuji. Last week’s award of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to Tokyo ignited more than the Olympic torch in the Japanese capital. The gaming industry hailed the announcement as the road to legalized casinos in Asia’s largest untapped gaming market. After all, Japan has to find a means to pay for an estimated $1.53 billion in Olympic venues before the world’s athletes descend upon Tokyo. Two large-scale resorts — one each in Tokyo and Osaka — could be worth $10 billion in annual gaming revenues, said Union Gaming Group Principal Grant Govertsen. Those…

iGaming Business – The Italian Parliament has approved a motion that instructs the Government to issue a 12-month ban for both online gaming and land-based gaming systems located in a public place. According to Giulio Coraggio of DLA Piper Italy, despite the motion being approved, the country’s Ministry of Finance immediately issued a statement that said any such motion is inapplicable and would create problems. The Ministry cited a number of consequences that the State may have to deal with if it were to be put in place. More than 200 operators have obtained a nine-year licence in the country….

Meghan McCain, daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), says her dad used to be paranoid about gambling, but since The Washington Post posted a picture of him playing poker on his smartphone during a September 3 U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on Syria, he is ready to let his pro-gaming flag fly. “Now, he’s really empowered because he loves to gamble,” said Meghan McCain during her September 10 appearance on Access Hollywood Live, when asked about the photo. “When he used to go to Las Vegas, people would take iPhone pictures of him, and he got very…

Card Player – Despite a likely citywide ban on Google Glass inside Las Vegas brick-and-mortar casinos, the gaming industry will reportedly work with the search engine giant to provide views from the inside of casinos for Google’s indoor mapping of locations. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, on Tuesday at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors meeting, a marketing firm unveiled a plan that will allow potential visitors to check out what it feels like to be inside — and presumably move around — of the casino before ever visiting. Or for those who have already…