iGaming Business – Gaming content specialist Vermantia has launched its latest retail gaming solution, MobiBet, which will cater for licensed gaming operators that want to offer pundits a choice of televised game services in the retail space. Vermantia said that MobiBet had been developed to help counter the fragmented nature of international retail networks where the capability to deploy multiple television screens delivering gaming content is restricted. The company claims that MobiBet “bridges” mobile, online and retail betting by offering multiple gaming feeds through a betting application, using dedicated free-to-access Wi-Fi hotspots in each retail point. Such “SmartSpots” are created…

Online-Casinos.com – The far east is just that far from the western world that many businesses don’t even regard it as a potential market for their products. This not so for the online gambler who can now venture on to the information high way and surf around the globe for a casino or card game. The Asian population is immense and becoming more affluent all the time. Along with the availability of internet and online gambling comes the inevitable bunch of crooks and villains there to rob and steal. The most recent bust in an Asian jurisdiction is an example…

USA Today – Phil Sicuso and Joe Champion say Indianapolis International Airport is well suited for wireless gambling technology that could bring in revenue to support more nonstop flights. The pair work at Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP and floated the idea in an article for their firm’s newsletter, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported. Sicuso, a former general counsel for the Indiana Gaming Commission, suggests the airport could create lounges in which travelers over age 21 could play games on handheld devices that are connected to a central server. He said the setup wouldn’t compete with existing casinos because it would…

Online Poker Report – While one online gambling bill languishes in the Pennsylvania legislature, a plan for a new bill appears to be quietly gathering substantial support. Pennsylvania’s first shot at regulating online gambling came earlier this year in the form of a bill introduced by Rep. Tina Davis. But a powerful committee head recently put the kibosh on that effort. Now – according to reports from GamblingCompliance.com – draft language for a second bill backed by the state’s casino industry is “making the rounds.” There doesn’t appear to be much urgency behind the effort, but, with Davis’ bill apparently off…

Tuoitre News – Police from the Ministry of Public Security have arrested seven members of an online gambling ring with total gambling amount reaching US$23.6 million as of August. The ring’s leader, Vuong Chan Thanh, 37, director of Vien Tin International Co Ltd in District 11, HCMC, was arrested on Friday morning, along with his wife, Dam Kim Khuyen, 34, Nguyen Thanh Trieu, 34, Vuong Thuy Hang (Trieu’s wife), 35, and Do Tu Tuong, 35, police said. These five defendants have been charged with organizing gambling. The police also detained two others, Nguyen Xuan Lam, 29, and Le Quang Tan,…

iGaming Business – Online gambling operator 888 Holdings and internet betting exchange Betfair have been gearing up for the launch of online gaming in the US state of New Jersey. 888, which reported earlier this week a 19% increase in casino gaming revenue during the third quarter of 2013, is already operating in Nevada, but its operations are set to go live in Delaware as well as New Jersey in the coming weeks. “California is the prize,” 888 chief executive officer Brian Mattingley said. “We are working flat out to identify some quality partners out there.” Meanwhile Betfair has unveiled…