The most important thing: security
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Much has been said about online gaming and the countless playing possibilities, yet despite this Internet casinos are viewed by most people with mistrust (which is groundless). How do online casinos really work? Today we have decided to analyze this subject thoroughly. We begin with the topic that worries players the most: security. This is a truly a fundamental issue when discussing online gaming. It is true that to play at an online casino is less safe than other games? It is less safe only if you want it to be so, but certainly not due to a lack of tools or technologies to make sure that long distance gaming is safe and impervious to people with malicious intentions. At an online casino, transactions take place via a constant dialog between the casino software and the credit card company servers. The casino software records the account number and the name of the player, and then "requests authorization" from the bank server, but only for that single transaction. You cannot play anonymously, and using very powerful firewalls, we prevent any possibility of credit card cloning. Generally, online casinos are even safer than famous and well-known casinos. We always suggest that you carefully check a set of parameters that, for us, are fundamental: 1 – Number of years of the casino’s existence. 2 – Existence of a customer support in your language. 3 – Contact section with e-mail and/or telephone numbers. 4 – Certifications of "honest game" by international bodies. It’s also vital to conduct Internet researches, read the opinions of other players, and their judgments and reviews of the casino in question. How much does the security technology cost? The price of the security technology is approximately 10% of the total cost. That is not such a very high figure, but certainly it a cost that can be cut if you are trying to save in any way possible. There is also the totally different matter of an unsafe system purposely designed with the intention of committing a crime. However, when you need to input personal data and credit card security codes in order to play, you can feel confident about the issue of security. As evidence of this, for example, experts estimate that from next year, the mobile gambling market (gaming over mobile phones) will yield 7 billion dollars per year until 2011. Casino Tropez was the first big site to introduce it in a satisfactory way, with remarkable demand for the games. Currently, only 5% of the customers worldwide play games online from their own mobiles. According to the analysts, the most fertile ground is the United Kingdom, the native land of the gambling, where marketing operations are very successful. To encourage a boom in this market, however, will take further development of mobile telephony: operators and producers will have to facilitate the downloading procedures and develop 3D graphic for the cellular applications. |