iGaming Business – Mobile gambling firm Probability has announced a partnership with direct carrier payments company Boku which will enable UK players of Probability’s mobile gambling games will be able to use a secure payment method linked directly to their mobile bill or pre-pay account. The service, which has been integrated into games for iPhone and Android smartphone platforms, is immediately available to all Probability customers including LadyLucks, Moobile players and white label partners. Players can typically deposit money into their gaming account with Probability in less than five seconds. Players are able to deposit up to £30 per day…

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…