The US government is trying hard to make its citizen stop online gambling and betting, but American Wagering and a few other companies in Nevada are all set to open their business to the internet in the form of online gambling. These companies already their apps ready for BlackBerry phones which will help the users gamble and bet online right from their phones.
The Gaming board of Nevada had the app in their lab and tested the app rigorously to find out if the app is breaking any rules. But in vain. So the app by the regulators and gambling and betting enthusiasts will soon get to enjoy this app on their phones. Happy gambling and betting users.
"The Nevada Gaming Control Board scrutinized the project with a very thorough lab investigation, which helped us in setting the bar for our security features," said John English. "We have developed the first mobile phone betting application to be approved in Nevada."
American Wagering has over sixty sports books in Nevada, all of these books are provided in the app. So the users can choose any one of these sixty books to bet and gamble on. But you will have to register first before doing so. The users will have to go to one of these books and have to register their accounts. But care has been taken that nothing illegal will happen. The app will ask for identification details of the user during the time of activation to make sure that the use of the allowed age to gamble and bet.
This year of 2010 is definitely not a good year for the Research in Motion (RIM) team. The BlackBerry phones has been exposed to a lot of threats of bans around the world for security reasons. Countries like Saudi Arabia, India, Lebanon, and a couple of other countries have been warning Research in Motion on security grounds. Now, Indonesia is joining the list of countries who are willing to ban BlackBerry services in their countries. But Indonesia has no security issues, its pornography.
Indonesia has an anti-pornographic law since 2008 and according to that, obviously, there should no pornography in the country legally. Indonesia has requested the Canadian company RIM before to ban the pornographic content in the country. But RIM has not yet acknowledged this for Indonesia. Now, the government is keen about taking the porn out of the country and has threatened to ban the services of BlackBerry completely in the country if RIM does not take the pron out of the services.
"If they are still not responding to our request, we have to close it down," said Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring. "RIM may violate our law if it remains providing porn content in its service (in Indonesia)," Tifatul said.
Pilot My-Cast is an app used by professional pilots to gather a lot of info about the weather and forecasts and the flight conditions as a whole. The app gives just amazing amount of info you would want. Its like sitting with a complete weather forecast, flight adviser, all at the same time.
The app gives details that according to me, none of the other apps provide. The app makes it very easy to page through surface meteorological reports, terminal forecasts and observations and advisories immediately as they surface. The app also gives you an actual radar and satellite imagery from the satellites. So you get a whole better picture and can easily take your decision.
Also, there is an easy flight plan filing via DUATs METARs. This is displayed in both text and graphic formats. So there is no way you can miss on any info. You can even get 24 hours of TAF forecasts. Other details provided by the app include current flight conditions, visibility, altimeter, wind direction, speed, temperature, dew point, time of observation, lightning data and a lot lot more. You think any other app gives you all this info?
Anyway, Handango has the app for sale on its website. The Pilot My-Cast by Garmin app for your BlackBerry$9.95 per month comes to you for . You can get more info about the app and buy it from Handango from here.
Monday was the day when RIM and the Indian government met in a meeting to decide whether its services should be continued in the country or not. It was decided that the Canadian company should set up a local server in India so that the Indian security agencies can monitor the services easily. Now, though, there is a new notion for the reason of the decision taken by India.
India is hosting the Common Wealth Game in a few months, in November. And a lot of people are expected to fly into the country during this time and a lot of US delegation is expected too. This includes the US President Obama. It is a well known fact that Obama uses a BlackBerry and all the people escorting the President are also using the same phone. The BlackBerry service these people use the most on their phones are the BlackBerry Enterprise and BlackBerry Messenger. These are two services that were to be banned from today in the country if proper solutions were not provided by the country.
It is also said that the Canadian government might have given a political pressure on this issue to get the work done for Research in Motion. This is still being an issue and a rumor. But the ban has already been taken off on the company's services and India has given the company another 2 months time to monitor whether the solution provided now are enough.
