New Millennium Games' NOW! Week in Review 10-6-2013

New Investment Group Seeks To Buy Atlantic City Casino

PS4′s second screen functionality trounces Xbox One’s SmartGlass

San Francisco's Pure Play gambles on legality of online poker site

How Zynga Plans to Save Its Business

Inside Gaming- 888 Holdings has quietly carved out an extra-large share of the neophyte U.S. online gaming market

Ivey Poker launches free-to-play social application

U.S. Virgin Islands Amends Online Gambling Regulations

Japan Moving Closer To Legalised Land Gambling

The dark side of Apple’s iOS 7     iKnow where you are. Alongside the introduction of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 7, the company also rolled out its answer to the NFC technology it has gone out of its way to avoid in iPhones, iPads and iPod touch handhelds. The solution is called “iBeacon,” and it allows for the creation of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons that emit signals iOS 7-powered devices will automatically react to when they come within range of the beacon...(more)      www.foxnews.com

New Jersey Online Gambling Goes Live November 26     New Jersey Gaming Enforcement Division says "soft" action for invited players can start Nov. 21st to test systems. After months of conjecture on whether New Jersey regulators will be ready to push the go button on internet gambling on November 26, the state Gaming Enforcement Division confirmed Friday that it's prepared, and that licensed operators will be able to start up for invited guests only in a five day soft launch to test systems on November 21, followed by a full launch on November 26 if all goes well...(more)      www.recentpoker.com CALIFORNIA ONLINE POKER LEGALISATION NEXT YEAR?      Legalisation missed the legislative boat this year, but plenty of action is planned for 2014. The California legislature has adjourned for the third consecutive year without legalising online gambling despite the introduction of the Wright and Correa online poker bills and a tribal initiative, but that has not deterred proponents, who are setting up further runs at legalisation in the 2014 session...(more)      www.recentpoker.com Social Gambling Not Gaming     I am loathed to start an article with such a hackneyed statement, but I really can’t help but smile when I consider that the average American can purchase enough firepower to down a mighty beast (and even act that fantasy out), and yet they find it so difficult to gamble online. The American establishment’s fear of gambling, and in particular online gambling, beggars belief, and perhaps this is why in most quarters they refer to companies such as Zynga and DoubleDown as social gaming sites, whereas in the UK we refer to them as social gambling sites...(more)      calvinayre.com