Online Casino News

Casinos get a boot from RFID - 2004-01-09
An additional growth area has been named for deployment of the controversial radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology -- the casino.

More controversially, though, these RFID labels are created to help a casino to monitor exactly how much cash each player wins and loses. This would help casinos trap cheaters, as well as permitting them to single out big spenders for preferential treatment.
Read the full story at ZDNet UK

The train still kept a' rollin' - 2004-01-09
Casino operators outpaced game manufacturers in financial markets for the first time in four months this last December just as the gaming industry outperformed more traditional market indices in all of 2003, according to the recently released Applied Analysis Gaming Index.

Station Casinos' stock, which experienced the greatest hike in 2003 among AAGI operators by expanding 71.47 percent, saw minimal growth in December, rising a simple 25 cents, or 0.85 percent.
Read the full story at Las Vegas Business Press