Online Bingo Great Car Giveaway

So how does online bingo top a great year of bonuses and fantastic promotions? It gives away a car. Now we know that 888 Ladies Bingo gave away a car but the one we are really interested in is the Wink Mini promotion that the guys from Wink Bingo gave away.

We have been scanning the bingo sites to bring you the name of the winner and actually spoke to the people at Wink eventually as I think they are still recovering so have not updated the site.

They do tell me though that they have two free bingo winners of the Wink Mini and they shared their screen names with me. The two winners are delilah17 & tulley

Well we look forward to hearing how this fantastic Mini Cooper prize is going to be split and we look forward to bringing you more great new play live bingo promotions from the Wink Bingo team.

News Sources:-
January 2, 2009
http://bingostreet.com/news-20090102/online-bingo-great-car-giveaway/online-bingo-news

Online Bingo in the Media Glare

Since the changes in the law relating to the way gaming companies could advertise their wares on the TV, we have seen more and more online bingo sites go down this route and this has definitely put online bingo in the media glare. As we know TV advertising has the ability to reach millions of viewers around the world in a very short space of time and online bingo TV ads certainly seemed to have captured the imagination of the public because despite the economic downturn we have seen this year, online bingo has still been on the rise.

It is not just online bingo TV adverts, which have been hitting our screens either as a couple of online bingo sites have also gone down the TV sponsorship route throughout 2008. Wink Bingo have been sponsoring “All Star Family Fortunes” that is hosted by Vernon Kay and ITV2 daytime TV. These sponsorship deals are due to draw to a close today (31st December 2008)so it will be interesting to see which way Wink Bingo head in relation to advertising their online bingo site on the TV next year.

Foxy Bingo were the first online bingo site to delve into the TV sponsorship field after they took up sponsoring the Jeremy Kyle show after their current backers (Learn Direct) pulled out this TV deal, citing that they felt it was not appropriate for them to continue to be associated with the programme. Think Bingo also comes from the same hat as Foxy Bingo and for a time the Cashcade group switched their advertising sponsorship deal to Think Bingo, this however did not have the same impact as the Fox and this ad campaign was quickly switched back again.

Ladbrokes Bingo and 888 Ladies Bingo both run some real fun online play bingo TV adverts last year and these have certainly got their online bingo sites into the public domain in more ways than one. Ladbrokes Bingo took over the streets of Liverpool for their three day as shoot, where huge giant like zorb bingo balls went rolling past historic landmarks. It was tongue in cheek all the way with 888 Ladies Bingo from the very first moment they launched onto the internet with Vic Reeves as the face of their bingo site and TV ad campaign.

We have seen a fair few online bingo TV adverts come under the scrutiny of the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) during 2008, where Paddy Power Bingo, William Hill Bingo and Wink Bingo, all see one of their TV ad’s banned for different reasons. A Foxy Bingo advert also came before the ASA, but they ruled that there was no case to answer and the TV ad was remained on TV for public viewing.


Written by Hollie
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
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A Quick Little Bingo Program

A reader recently asked for help programming a bingo game.

"It's for a old people's house ... they're still doing things in the old fashioned way, picking the numbers by hand from a bag. At the end of this year, they won a computer and asked me if I could do something to make easer for them to play live bingo."

How could I say no? But the reader also needed the program in VB 6! To write the code, I went back that that VB 6 standard (which is not a part of .NET) "control arrays" to display the numbers. Just to see how it would handle it, I ran it through the VB.NET upgrade wizard too. It had no trouble and used the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.VB6 namespace to simulate the array.

I haven't done any VB 6 programming in a while and this was a real blast from the past for me that helped me appreciate what .NET has done! I lost a lot of coding once because I accidentally coded an infinite loop and had to cancel the VB 6 process before the project was saved. And the control array turned out to be a disadvantage in the final analysis because it was a lot of trouble to set up in the form.

If any of you are still using VB 6 ... get over it!

News Sources:-
Tuesday December 30, 2008
http://visualbasic.about.com/b/2008/12/30/a-quick-little-bingo-program.htm

Svenka Spel Continues To Monopolise Swedish Online Bingo

Last week, the Swedish National Gambling Consultation released a report in which it recommended that the Swedish Government should extend their monopoly on online gaming, including online poker, online casino games, and online bingo. The report comes in the wake of several complaints to the EU Court of Justice that the gambling monopoly enjoyed by Svenka Spel - the government-owned online gaming provider – is illegal under the rules of the EU's free competition rules.

The rules in question are intended to allowed all companies free access to all markets within the EU. Because the EU is made up of so many sovereign countries, the rules allow for certain practises – such as gambling – to be banned within an EU member country, but not where such banning is simply to protect local businesses from competition.

For example, as the UK is an EU member, then an online bingo company such as Wink Bingo or 888Ladies should be allowed to accept players from Sweden, but this law makes it illegal for them to do so.

The recommendations of the report go even further, though. They suggest using IP blocking within Sweden to prevent Swedish citizens from accessing international gambling bingo sites. They also want to implement a Swedish version of the USA's UIGEA legislation, which makes it an offence for banks to process financial transactions between players and online gaming sites.

Alongside this, they also suggest loosening areas of their gambling legislation to allow international bingo sites gaming companies access to Swedish markets by doing away with the state monopoly on sports betting by 2011, but with the exception of betting on horse racing, which will remain under the control of the state. On the surface, this makes it appear that Sweden is beginning to comply with EU free trade rules while in fact it is increasing the scope of their monopoly.

At least, this is how most international gaming companies are viewing the report. Last week, representatives from Bettson, Expect, Unibet and Ladbrokes called a press conference in Stockholm where they made their opinions on the report clear: they accused the Swedish government of trying to protect its illegal monopoly.

In addition, Ladbrokes released a statement on their website that roundly condemned the proposals.

News Sources:-
December 30, 2008
http://bingostreet.com/news-20081230/svenka-spel-continues-to-monopolise-swedish-online-bingo