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…

iGaming Business – UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has confirmed that it will not replace recently-departed customer experience director and chief marketer Stephen Vowles, but will instead hand leadership of its digital marketing division to partner online gaming software supplier Playtech. According to the Marketing Week magazine, the decision was taken after an internal review of Ladbrokes’ digital marketing operations. The two companies announced their partnership in March. Vowles, who was named marketing director of UK catalogue merchant Argos earlier this week, will not directly be replaced, but existing board member Nick Rust will assume overall responsibility for marketing. Meanwhile Adam Collett,…

iGaming Business – The UK’s Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has called for Britain’s online gambling tax proposals to be changed following a report by financial services firm KPMG. In its 2012 Budget, the UK government announced plans to tax online gambling on a “place of consumption” basis, and last month the government confirmed that it intends to impose a 15% tax rate on online betting companies that target customers in the country but are based in offshore tax havens. However, according to the RGA, which commissioned the study, the KPMG report found that the proposed tax is “likely to fail…

Cairns – Gambling games for smartphones and tablets are being hailed as the future for many worldwide gaming companies. Mobile online gambling is growing as smartphones and tablets become more popular and affordable, process more information and present higher quality images and sounds. Juniper Research, a UK mobile commerce analysis firm, says the deregulation of online gambling in the US and Europe and the development of the Chinese market will push annual wagers on mobile gambling platforms to more than $US100 billion in 2017. The most rapid growth in mobile gambling is expected to come from casino games: roulette, blackjack,…

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…

Yesterday we told you that the WSOP Online Poker would soon launch, and that Ultimate Poker will soon be ending its reign as Nevada’s only regulated online poker site currently in operation. On Monday, Caesars Interactive Entertainment is set to hold a conference call in which they will reveal the date on which they will launch their World Series of Poker branded real-money online poker web site in Nevada. In the six months since Ultimate Poker first opened its doors to Nevadans, there has been much speculation about which site would be the next to go live – and when….