Tag Archive for: mobile

Reflections from ICE 2012

ICE took place earlier this week and I had the opportunity to visit for the fourth year in a row. This year I could unfortunately only be in London for a single day, the thursday. It was a good visit with a short presentation about the future sportsbook interface as well as a few really promising [...]

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It is time to start designing for the mobile first!

More and more players have smartphones and we need to design for that when we design igaming products. The days when players just sat home by their PC playing are over and now they want to be able to play when ever and where ever they are. Users (players) have a mobile phone with them [...]

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Day 1 at ICE!

It is almost time to go to ICE for the second day. I spend a couple of hours at the show yesterday walking looking at all the different exhibitors, especially in the igaming section. And it is pretty similar to previous years. We have everything from Microgaming’s big brands to bwin’s new iPhone poker app. [...]

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Don’t have an iPhone or Android betting app? It is time to get one!

A new report from Juniper Research has found that number of sports book users placing bets using their mobile have increased by 60% in 2010. And there are now over 2 million users in Europe. If you don’t already have your own iPhone and Android betting app then it is time to get one. Otherwise [...]

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It is time for Svenska Spel and every igaming company to get a mobile strategy!

We access the Internet today with more devices than our PC. Last night I was about to watch Barcelona’s last game of the season and I had my iPad with me on my couch. I thought it would be fun to place a few bets on the match, so I went to svenskaspel.se to place [...]

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Redesign in 20 minutes (18) – Sky Bet’s iPhone Sportsbook

Sky Bet last friday launched an sportsbook for their iPhone users together with mkodo. I think it is great that more and more products and services are optimized for the iPhone and the upcoming iPad. You can read more about that in my previous blog posts. Today Today when you type in skybet.mobi you come [...]

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Social media, mobile and user experience are important trends in the igaming industry

The first panel session at EIG Expo talked about the future and what trends they see. The main areas were: innovation entertainment mobile social media (voted as the trend that would have the biggest impact on the online gambling) user experience (understanding the customer was voted the most important key factor to succeed in the [...]

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NordicBet makes sportsbook available for iPhone users, but why so many steps to place a bet?

Image 1. The steps to place a bet on NordicBet’s iPhone site. I read on the Gaming Intelligence website that NordicBet has released a iPhone version of their sportsbook together with Mobenga. I thought I would try it out since I love my iPhone and gaming. So I started Safari on my iPhone and typed in www.nordicbet.com [...]

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