CONTENTS MARCH 2011
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NEWS
STATESIDE Sharon Harris brings the news
LATINO AMERICA Ricki Chavez Munoz brings the latest
news from this gaming hotspot
MACAU BUSINESS When will Galaxy Macau open? Macau
Business asks the questions
ONLINE/OFFLINE Barnaby Page investigates this ever-
greying area of gaming GIGASPACES
Jim Liddle explains the company’s application scalability platform
TABLE GAMING Barnaby Page takes a look at the
casino staple GAMING IT A look at insider security threats
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Editor’s letter I
t’s February as I write this, and we’re enjoying the first day of sunshine in what seems like months. It’s been a long and
cold winter, with few highs and some epic lows – and I’m not just talking about the weather! If ICE taught us one thing it’s that the gaming industry doesn’t stay down for long. In January we saw another vibrant edition of what is, for me, the best gaming show in the world, though on the product side innovations were thin on the ground. Mostly it was refinements, tweaks and improvements to product, with a few notable exceptions you can read about in our review, starting on page 38. Jon Bruford, Managing Editor
jonbruford@yahoo.co.uk
38 ICE REVIEW
The world’s most exciting gaming show, in one bite-sized chunk
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