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McKinney: Online Gaming Far from Inevitable

Senate Minority Leader John McKinney is taking issue with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's assertion that online gambling is inevitable in Connecticut. "I'm going to be looking at what we can do to prevent this from happening,' [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Online gamers the winners as FTSE falls

Online gaming stocks were the big winners on Wednesday, as investors bet that the US government could relax its approach to internet gambling. Bwin.Party was the top performer among the mid-cap stocks, rising 23% to 160p on the first trad [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Job Hunting (Watch Video)

Shanavia Reed is a nursing student at the University of South Alabama and soon to be graduate. She comes to the Alabama Career Center to search the web for nursing positions, and agrees, the online hunt can be daunting. "Just li [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

House eyes online gaming

A House panel chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack talked enthusiastically Tuesday about the legalization of interstate Internet gambling, including popular online poker games, as way to find new federal tax revenue. “To stand in the w [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Find a job the online dating way

So you’ve decided to get back on the market. Should you look online or beg your friends to set you up? Come on strong or play it cool? If you’re one of the millions of North Americans who’ve surfed the Web for love, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Superhero online game City of Heroes launches as free-to-pla...

City of Heroes, an online role-playing game run by NCSoft, will now use a freemium model that makes money off the sale of premium goods in lieu of requiring all players to pay a subscription fee. All City of Heroes players can now play [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Online job hunt ends in horror

A 38-year-old Cape Town woman is fighting for her life in hospital after apparently being gang-raped after responding to an advert on the popular classifieds site Gumtree, offering casual employment for stocktakers. The woman said she [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Student job hunt going online

The Waikato branch of Student Job Search is closing its doors on September 30 as the job recruitment service makes the move to online. Office co-ordinator Jewal Morrison confirmed the imminent closure, which will cost three people thei [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Facial Recognition Software in Online Gaming and Crime Preve...

Facial recognition technology is becoming entrenched in our society; a part of everything from social media to law enforcement. How does the software determine identity with a photo, anyway? Points of Recognition Each face is unique, [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Consider how accessible your life is online before starting ...

What does your Facebook page say about you? If it says you're a unique individual who has various interests -- whether it be hobbies, movies, books or travel -- chances are good an employer will want to get to know you more. But as Jo [...]

Posted On : Jun, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Wooga online gaming company wins $24m of funding

The funding was led by Highland Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital and existing investors Balderton Capital and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures also participated. The group and its investors declined to provide detail on what the new investment val [...]

Posted On : Jun, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

On A Job Hunt? Three Online Career Management Musts

As a career coach, I am often hounding my clients to focus on branding, networking and negotiation. Three online tools have recently surfaced that can make these ongoing tasks more manageable: MyWebCareer scores your professional on [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Changes In Online Recruiting Reshape Job Hunting Landscape

As job prospects improve in the recovering economy, employers are devising new strategies for recruiting potential candidates. Instead of searching through voluminous amounts of online applications as many employers have done in the past [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

The New Rules of Online Job Hunting

As any astute job seeker knows, the days of sitting on your duff 20, 30 or 40 hours a week while scouring the online job boards are over. But it's not enough to simply slap a profile on LinkedIn, or make a couple of pithy tweets, and [...]