Only 16 counties are ranked below average. Generosity generally flourishes in counties with average to relatively low pulltab and lottery gambling. Counties with high per-capita gambling include all but three of those labeled least likely to give by the national study. Smart cards and smart card technology are on the horizon for Atlantic City's casinos . KPMG, one of the world's largest professional services firms, and which does much casino consulting work, pitched the use of smart cards to some casinos during a breakfast meeting at Blue Herron Pines here on Tuesday.
Smart cards look like a credit or bank card.
They contain electronic chips that store a wide range of information from personal identification to dental records to just about anything else you want. It's a wonder, then, that Andre Miller and the rest of Utah's players looked so comfortable Thursday against Brigham Young . Gtech is talking with Transaction Network Services Inc., one of the biggest providers of credit-card authorization machines to retailers, about possible joint ventures that would use the networks Gtech built to run lotteries. In Brazil, millions of people already pay their utility bills at 11,000 satellite-linked Gtech lottery terminals. In the Netherlands, lottery kiosks tied to Gtech central computers also sell transportation and theater tickets.