mobile gamblingThe gaming company Playtech, which supplies games for dozens of casinos around the world, has inked a deal with UK development company Masabi to enable players to play on the move. What Masabi allows Playtech to do is roll out a range of games including Black Jack, Poker and Roulette onto a wide range of handset types – not just those running Symbian or Windows Mobile 5.0. The engine encompasses low end handsets which can run basic Java apps, too.

Players access their accounts through the Masabi software, using the same style of interface that PlayTech provides on the desktop, and over any internet connection. This means the network operator is out of the loop - it may make some pennies from the data traffic, but otherwise it’s not involved.

Well done to Playtech for finding a way of going round the operator rather than deal with it.