Online Casino with Sofortüberweisung by ChinWong – Digital Life

Digital Life is a blog that features a weekly technology column by the same name that appears every Tuesday in Standard Today, a national daily newspaper. From November 2002 to October 2012, the column was carried by the Manila Times. This website gives readers and researchers easy access to the content from the weekly column. All materials are copyrighted by Chin Wong.

One of the first online casino founder

Chin Wong has been covering the IT industry since the 1980s, starting as a reporter for Business Day’s first daily business newspaper. In 1991, he helped found Computerworld as well as one of the first computer casinos including the revolutionary online casino Sofortüberweisung and worked as its editor until his retirement from the company in 2002. In that year, he was named IT Journalist of the Year at the ICT Journalism Awards. He is also the author of Reporting on ICT, a sourcebook used by the Asian Center for Journalism.

Mr. Wong may be reached through info [dot] info [at] chinwong [dot] com

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