“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. We have developed the first mobile phone betting application to be approved in Nevada,” John English, senior vice president at American Wagering, said in a statement. Leroy’s App offers sports bets including straight [...]

Cricket’s Al Moschner (Credit: Leap Wireless) Q: You operate your own network, yet you also act as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) for Sprint. Why be an MVNO, too? Why not just funnel people onto your own network? A: It’s about national reach. An important part of our strategy is to become national. We’re not going to stop building out our own infrastructure, [...]

Looks like that fake Pre with the iOS / BlackBerry OS split personality is a little ahead of its time, but ARM — supplier of the architecture that underpins most of the world’s smartphones — likes the idea. In a recent talk at Stanford, ARM program manager David Brash talked up some of the highlights of new “extensions” to the existing ARMv7-A platform, and though he [...]

We feel your pain: you love your BlackBerry at work and your iPhone for personal use, but as hardware goes, nothing gets your motor running quite like the Pre’s pebble-esque shell. Trust us, we’ve all been there! Well, a new clone out of China seeks solve all your technological woes by combining an iOS-inspired user interface and the Pre’s body — with an iPhone home button [...]

Good news for iPhone users who had lusted over the Android-only app Goggles from Google. It’s set to hit the App Store sometime in the next three months. A report by The Register, which was covering the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Monday, makes note of Google staff engineer David Petrou’s keynote, wherein Petrou said the application was, in fact, still in the works. [...]