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It may be small in size, but Costa Rica is proving itself in a big way in the online gambling industry. This tiny country in Latin America boasts no less than 500 online gambling operators who call it home, an industry which generates $14.5 million for the country’s economy.

A report, entitled Costa Rica Gaming and Gambling 2011, put out by Research and Markets group examines Costa Rica’s online gambling business and shows that it has become a haven for online gambling operators and software providers. The country has no internet gambling legislation, instead offering commercial licenses to operators.

New Jersey seems to be one step closer to legalizing intrastate online gambling following the approval of a pending proposal by Senate and Assembly lawmakers.

Should intrastate online gambling be legalized it will see existing casinos in the state having an opportunity to run online portals allowing visitors to wager at poker and casino games online. It will, however be necessary for casinos to apply for and obtain a special license in order to run the online gambling service.

Subsequent to Russia shutting down its land based casinos on 1st July, 2009 and restricting gambling to four specific zones in regions that are rarely visited in the country computer clubs in Russia gained lots of popularity.

However the Russian government has now decided to clamp down on the “computer clubs” by going after online gamblers.

A recent study took place in Quebec and was financed by the province in order to investigate the gambling habits of people living in Quebec.

The results of the study, which was based on a telephone survey of 11,888 Quebecers during the summer of 2009, showed that 86,000 people in Quebec, Canada, gamble an average of $9,903 online per year. The fact that each interview lasted approximately 12 minutes shows that the interviewers had time to obtain lots of information from those that they were interviewing.

Although a set of licenses was issued by ARJEL, the online gambling regulator of France, shortly before the commencement of the FIFA Football World Cup in South Africa there were many popular names that had not been issued licenses.

At the time ARJEL revealed that they were processing the remaining applications and that no application had been rejected until then. ARJEL advised that it would not take long before further applications would be issued and they have, in fact, already issued five more online gambling operators through a second list.

An announcement was made by Steve Jobs at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday that the new iPhone 4 will go on sale on 24th June 2010. Jobs revealed that amongst the many new features of the new iPhone is that it has a much longer battery life.

The millions of gamblers using their iPhone to play at the online casinos will welcome the news of the longer battery life as this will enable them to have up to a forty percent more battery life which will enable players to play at their favorite casinos for a much longer length of time before the need to recharge the battery.

In a recent study by casino experts, it has been found that the world could face a new generation of gambling addicts if more is not done to curb problem gamblers.

Although most online gamblers would assume that it is games such as poker, blackjack and slots that are the biggest contributors to the problem, many are surprised to learn that it is in actual fact sports betting.

It will soon be necessary for overseas gaming operators to apply for a license in order to provide services in the Republic of Ireland due to the fact that this country is introducing a license system in order to tax and control online gambling in the country. Ireland has now become the latest in an increasing number of European countries who are taking such a step.