Lawmakers inCarson City are on the verge of giving Nevada casinos the go-ahead to experiment with a whole new form of gambling. Just imagine carrying your slot machine or roulette wheel with you to the pool, the bar, or the buffet.

All of that will be possible with wireless technology. The concept involves giving gamblers the freedom to move around a hotel without interrupting their ability to place bets. Hand-held devices would use radio waves to make wagers at the sports book, or even the blackjack table...

A real bettor will place a wager on just about anything. The online casinos have taken notice of this fact and are taking bets on the outcome of all sorts of events from presidential elections to celebrity showcase trials.

Your favorite online casino may offer a lot more than just traditional casino games. One online casino recently started taking bets on the outcome of the upcoming Michael Jackson trial. Right now they are offering odds on a variety of different possible outcomes to the high profile celebrity case that is gaining a huge amount of attention in the media...

By any measure, poker is hot, with the lexicon of Texas Hold 'Em — the flop, the turn, the river — becoming standard vocabulary on college campuses, even in some high-school corridors.

Televised poker tournaments are drawing impressive ratings, and the availability of more than 100 online poker sites means a would-be player no longer needs to round up a group of friends, or even go to the local card room.

While some worry the game is attracting ever-younger players and that the nation is ill-equipped to deal with problem gamblers, and while the legality of online gambling remains a subject of debate, the poker craze is expanding exponentially.

Just two years ago, the main event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas drew 839 entrants. Last year, that jumped to 2,576 and this year backers are preparing for 4,000 to 6,600...

SX Networks is researching for new European partners to create, set in motion and promote new Internet sites. The biggest aim is finding European companies, that are able to get involved on some Gambling projects that SX Networks has in mind.

This Company already has vast experience in the Gambling area. But with the cooperation of this new partner, they would be completely advocated in developing, setting in motion, and keeping updated the sites they would create. In the first stage of the project, they are thinking of launching almost 10 sites in different languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian and English) and with diverse categories like poker, slot machines, bingo, backgammon, etc...

Florida resident Rogers Cadenhead, who describes himself as the author of several technology books, said that he registered six domain names earlier this month based on names he thought the new pope might pick.

"I think I was the second-most excited person on the planet when they announced the name," he told Reuters, adding that the euphoria quickly faded as his Web server started to buckle under the weight of an estimated 1,000 hits a minute.

As well as Benedict XVI--the name chosen by German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger on his election on Tuesday--Cadenhead registered for a nominal fee ClementXV.com, InnocentXIV.com, LeoXIV.com, PaulVII.com and PiusXIII.com...

Last news said that SX Networks is interested in entering to the market of the Internet Games, specifically to the Online Casinos growing world. It will be a big challenge to this company and it will require a big investment. They think to corner competitive markets and also gain ground in many countries with different languages.

SX Networks already has some experience in the area, developing software for some Casinos’ sites. Although now, it will be SX Networks’ total responsibility of creating, developing, setting it in motion and keeping updated their own sites. There are going to be launched almost one hundred sites in five languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German), in different categories (bingo, poker, slots, backgammon)...

Chicago, IL.- Regulation of online gambling is emerging in the United States and elsewhere, but that is not likely to slow the worldwide phenomenon, experts told UPI's The Web.

The World Trade Organization last week ruled the U.S. government could regulate Internet gambling and authorities in the United Kingdom are establishing a new public body to police online gaming activities.

"We hope that at some point it does get regulated," said Jessica Rovello, chairman of Arkadium.com in New York City, an online wagering forum. "We don't want to see people taking out a second mortgage to finance an online poker game"...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- The Israeli Supreme Court decided March 30 to begin requiring certain types of non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism be recognized by the state.

The Internet vastly expanded access to pornography, the World Wide Web has introduced an array of gambling methods that never require a person to set foot in a casino. As a result, online gambling has become a $10-billion-a-year industry.

The federal Wire Act of 1961 bans the use of telephones to place sports bets, but the law is hard to enforce because it does not specifically ban casino games -- especially through the Internet, since the method was not around when the law was passed...

With the popularity of online casino games spreading like wild fire, companies are trying new ways to cross promote their products along with popular gambling games.

Let´s face it, when you imagine a private poker game, you usually think of a smoky, rowdy room full of people sitting around a table playing cards and drinking.

Well it seems that Absolut Vodka is trying to tap into that image by featuring online casino style poker games you can play right on their website...

Portugal's 222-year-old national lottery, which last suspended business during the French army's 1807 invasion of Lisbon, faces a new threat from northern Europe: Internet sports betting.

State-owned gambling monopoly Santa Casa da Misericordia, (``The Sacred House of Mercy''), says competition from online bookies Sportingbet Plc and Stanleybet Plc, and BetandWin.com Interactive Entertainment AG threatens the lottery's annual 1.1 billion-euro ($1.48 billion) revenue stream. Its entire profit of 350 million euros is donated to charity.

State-licensed gambling companies in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece take in 5.78 billion euros annually from lotteries and sports betting and use the profits for charities, athletic leagues and services...