iGaming Business – Server and network-based gaming company Amaya Gaming has entered into a licensing agreement with bwin.party to provide the online gaming operator with a range of online casino content in the US state of New Jersey. Under the deal, Borgata Hotel & Spa, bwin.party’s licensed gaming operator partner in New Jersey will be integrated with Amaya’s Casino Gaming system. The integration will allow players access to Amaya’s proprietary and third-party online casino games. In addition, bwin.party is to launch a range of Amaya’s online gaming titles from its existing gaming websites. “Our agreement with Amaya will enable players…

iGaming Business – PartyPoker, the online poke brand of online gaming operator bwin.party, has pledged to develop better communication channels with its customers. Jeffrey Haas, the company’s new director of poker, outlined PartyPoker’s promise to communicate more openly and regularly with customers. “With my arrival, I can safely say that the ‘run silent, run deep’ approach has been scrapped for good. Just so it’s clear: we are truly sorry for our silence, and will do much better in the future,” Haas said. The move comes after PartyPoker customers became frustrated at the site’s player segregation system on the Two Plus…

Poker News – On Friday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement released a list of Internet gaming companies which have received a transactional waiver, thereby allowing them to “engage in Internet gaming activities” once the market launches on Nov. 26. Among the companies approved on Friday were Caesars Interactive Entertainment, bwin.party, 888, Ultimate Poker, Betfair and Amaya Gaming, all of which will be eligible to participate in the “soft launch” trial period beginning on Nov. 21. The news is big for Caesars, which owns four properties in Atlantic City and will run its online gaming platform through 888 and…

Press TV – A police force’s officers and staff in Britain have been blocked from websites with porn and gambling content 2,700 times in three months, a new report shows. According to figures, released on Monday under a Freedom of Information request by the BBC, the Devon and Cornwall police force’s computer systems prevented access to porn almost 700 times and gambling sites over 2,000 times from June to August 2013. The force said the “vast majority” of recorded blocks from pages with inappropriate content relate to pop-up advertisements on legitimate sites such as local newspapers. Deputy Chief Constable David…

iGaming Business – Mobile transaction and authentication solutions provider XYverify has received approval from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement to provide its geolocation verification services to casinos in the US state. XYverify has become one of the first internet ancillary services provider to be approved in New Jersey. The conditional waiver will allow XYverify to support licensed mobile casino operators in the regulated New Jersey market, which is due to open at the end of November. The law requires verification that a customer looking to access an iGaming service is located in New Jersey before being allowed to…

Trusted Reviews – Online poker is going portable, with an industry expert suggesting mobile devices will account for 30 per cent of play by the end of 2014, a near eight-fold increase on current levels. Despite the online gambling scene having exploded in recent years, the industry and its users have not been the quickest to adopt portable technologies. According to a senior figure at one of the world’s largest online poker services, however, that is all set to change, with the next 12 months to see many players take their action on the move.Speaking to TrustedReviews at a World…