INDUSTRY NEWS In brief...
Jackpotjoy paid out the biggest ever British online bingo jackpot of £510,049.26 in its Bejeweled Bingo room.
Dutch supplier
JVHgames.com is now offering Innovative Technology’s Smart Payout note recycler in its gaming machine cabinets.
Apex Gaming showed five 3D titles at ICE Totally Gaming: The Adventures of Captain Nemo, Legend of the Sphinx II, Wonderland, Ocean Tale 2 and Royal Fruits. It also launched a mobile app.
AMG has appointed Terry Farr as a non-executive director.
Betson Enterprises has renewed its marketing and sales agreements with Automated Services International and Choice Equipment Sales.
Rank Group is in preliminary talks with Gala Casinos over a £250m takeover that would see Rank add Gala’s 24 venues to its existing 35, making it the biggest casino operator in Britain.
International Game Technology (IGT) has won a six-year contract extension from the University of Iceland Lottery for its G MLD cabinets.
FatSpanner’s Legends of Darts Pro Online was featured in a Sunday Times list of the world’s top 500 apps.
Bidding has opened for the right to operate a large casino in Leeds, one of eight new licences across the UK.
Gaming Support is to be exclusive supplier of electronic signage to Italian VLT operator Cogetech.
NMi has been approved as an accredited testing facility for Loto- Québec in Canada.
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Go4Gold HD debuts from TAB N
ew from TAB Austria at the ICE Totally
Gaming trade fair was the Go4Gold HD terminal, a dual-touchscreen addition to the series that can be used as a betting, gaming or information device. “The main focus is the
diversity which we have with the Go4Gold terminal family,” said managing director Siegfried Dattl. “This terminal is developed together with the customer and tailored precisely to their needs. The terminal adapts to the customer, not the other way around.”
Low-cost music library S
oundnet has launched a 20,000-track jukebox content library for £27.50 per month.
Featuring the most-played tracks from Soundnet’s client base of more than
15,000 British jukeboxes, including recent albums as well as classic tracks, the service is available for Sound Leisure’s new SoundWave jukebox and for its low- cost Starburst. The £27.50 price is good for a year following installation. Also new from Soundnet is the VHub AV system, which provides 30,000
songs and 7000 music videos for the VenueHub digital jukebox. It is also priced at £27.50 monthly for the first year, and the firm expects custom from venues such as student bars, sports bars and gay pubs, all seen as especially keen on music video. Said the firm’s spokesperson Toby Hoyte: “Video jukeboxes can take a lot of
money. Customers see video and consider it a premium service; in the right site they will pay a premium price. VHub AV has a comprehensive catalogue and the addition of three decades’ worth of music videos brings the colour and excitement of customers’ favourite artists to any music-orientated venue.” Features include a search-by-date
facility, which Soundnet expects consumers will use to find songs that were in the charts when they were born or married. And a partnership with
Last.fm, an
Internet radio service, lets them select tracks and receive recommendations via an app that echoes the
Last.fm interface. Said Sound Leisure managing director
Chris Black: “The way people listen to music at home is changing and our
agreement with
Last.fm means that VHub can reflect people’s new listening habits. By enabling access to
playlists created at home and offering suggestions on track selections, the customer experience is more personal and interactive.”
Whitney tops the charts
the most-played artist on Sound Leisure’s digital jukeboxes in the week following her death. The top three Houston songs
W
chosen by consumers were I Will Always Love You, IWanna DanceWith Somebody, and One Moment in Time. The firm sent a free 20-track tribute playlist to all its Milestones in Music and VHub jukeboxes to meet the heavy demand. Said Soundnet spokesperson
Toby Hoyte: “From a customer profile perspective, it is interesting that the sudden increase inWhitney Houston plays demonstrates that a good digital jukebox caters not only for the younger crowd but for also the older generation, as most of these plays will have come from older customers.” The firm, which is exclusive
content provider to Sound Leisure, uses its Opweb tool to monitor customer music choices in real time.
hitney Houston overtook The Beatles as
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