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December 24, 2008 – CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com, the leading online marketing resource and community website for Internet casino affiliates, has announced details of its highly anticipated online gaming conference, CAP Spring Break 2009.  Taking place in Cancun, Mexico for a full week -- from Saturday, March 21 through Saturday, March 28, 2009 -- the upcoming CAP Spring…

The online gambling industry has always been a self-regulated business. The general public has only been made aware of this recently -- in November 2008 -- when the TV program 60 Minutes aired a special on a major poker scam that took place with an online poker company. (Read about it here.)  Many believe that…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Mainly German reports over the weekend raise the alarming prospect that the Internet is under further assault -- this time from German authorities. A major furor still rages over the recent attempt by the state of Kentucky in the United States to confiscate global online gambling domain names, and…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The British Broadcasting Corporation is at the center of a growing dispute with British bookies over its proposed halving of U.K. racing coverage from 29 days in 2008 to only 14 in 2010, reports The Guardian newspaper.   Ralph Topping, the CEO of top British online and land gambling group…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- The $300 million "settlement" and Wire Act guilty plea by Party Gaming founder Anurag Dikshit last week prompted the regional newspaper Isle of Man Today to ask locally based online poker operator PokerStars.com for comment, postulating that the mood of the U.S. authorities is growing increasingly hostile. The newspaper made…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Gibraltar-based online gambling group 888.com's monthly member's magazine "Eight" has been awarded "Most Effective Membership" publication at the 2008 APA Effectiveness Awards. The award is given by the Association of Publishing Agencies in the U.K. and is one of the most coveted distinctions an internal magazine can achieve.  Eight,…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Reports earlier this week that a winner's payout had been given to the loser of a hand at UltimateBet.com (see previous report) have been followed by further incidents, suggesting that the original mis-payment may not be an isolated incident. Posts on Casinomeister, poker forum 2+2 and the UltimateBet blog at…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Activision has released the latest version of last year's virtual poker game hit "World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions" to mixed reviews, some of which advise that there are more serious products with better artificial intelligence on the market for the demanding poker aficionado. The game builds on last…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- Another significant step in the corporate development of online gambling software provider Net Entertainment has occurred with the Stockholm Stock Exchange listing committee approving the company for listing on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.  The listing means that the trading in B-shares is moved from the marketplace NGM Equity to…

December 23, 2008 (InfoPowa News) -- PokerStars marketers have come up with a crowd-puller as a sideshow to the online poker site's 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure scheduled for early January -- a chance for online players to take on the former world famous tennis star Boris Becker, who plays as a celebrity for the site. The…