No. 1 Story

Mobile operators get fixed price spectrum renewal in $3b Government windfall

The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.

read more

When BlackJack and Jill gamble at home

Science - Biology



The strategies that LaTour and Cotte suggest are:

• Better use of age checks when signing up for an online account

• Cross-checking new users with lists of pathological gamblers

• Setting financial limits on gambling and having the site communicate to gamblers that they are spending long hours and a lot of money

• Making information available about problem gambling treatments via pop-ups on instant messages

• Having an online gambling counselor available online

• Mandatory "cooling-off periods," which force online gamblers to stop gambling for are-set amount of time before they are allowed to wager money from their accounts

• Making tabulations of wins and losses more central and larger on the screen


The study was funded from the Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada.

Loading comments ...



- sponsored feature -

The Death of Traditional BI: What’s Next?

How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business IP PABX BUYING GUIDE

Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more