Friday’s Mega Millions drawing was to be just the 2nd drawing since the cross selling between Mega Millions and Powerball, but it did not occur until February 6th, sometime after Midnight EST. The drawing, being held in Virginia, seems to be delayed as a blizzard hits the middle Atlantic portion of the country

Starting today, January 31, 2010, an agreement between the Powerball and Mega Millions lottery authority, signed in October, allows states in either group to sell tickets for the other group.

Powerball states joining Mega Millions:
Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, N. Mexico, Minnesota, Missouri, N. Hampshire, N. Carolina, N. Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, W. Virginia, Wisconsin

Mega Millions states joining Powerball
Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, Washington

Ann Arbor, Michigan 1/19/2010 06:26 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

AllLotto.com, the premier provider of International lottery news and features, has released its free lottery application for the iPhone for Spanish Latin America. The “AllLotto Latinoamérica” application features coverage of the official lotteries in Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay With this release, the AllLotto iPhone/iTouch application provides results for 15 Spanish and English speaking countries worldwide. This new multi-country application is live, available as a free download, at the Apple iTunes store, in all 8 countries. The All Lotto iPhone app allows users to quickly load and easily view lottery drawing results for their country, with a single click to open the app. The All Lotto applications are live at Apple App Store, for free download. The AllLotto Latinoamérica version can be downloaded at http://itunes.apple.com/ar/app/id350698323?mt=8

AllLotto.com has been the leading provider of US and international lottery drawing results since its launch in 1998. All Lotto currently operates web sites featuring lottery drawing results for 27 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, in addition to the 8 Latin American countries supported by the application. The AllLotto.com network is an advertiser supported service that is accessible to all internet users for free.

“We are happy that we can launch this application for iPhone users in Latin America, who had no other lottery news service apps until today. We are committed to offering the easiest access to the Lottery News internationally,” Chairman Fred Weiss said in a written statement. The company is planing on launching other free applications for iPhone owners in the non-English speaking countries of Europe in February 2010.

The company is confident that iPhone users in the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America will find the AllLotto application quick and easy to use. “We’ve been pleasantly surprised by our success in the face of dozens of competitors for the English speaking market. We hope for similar success in this region,” added company president Stan Gregg. AllLotto.com is owned an operated by Allsites, llc of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

About AllLotto.com and Allsites, llc

AllLotto.com was launched in 1999 and is the leading multi-state, multi-national lottery result news and feature portal. AllLotto.com is a owned and operated by Allsites, llc. Allsites, llc, its principals and its predecessor companies operate AllLotto.com, a Lottery data feed service, and create custom software for publishers around the world.

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Transworldnews - Ann Arbor, MI - AllLotto.com, the premier provider of International lottery news and features, has released its free lottery application for the iPhone in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, The United Kingdom and South Africa. With these releases, the iPhone-iTouch applications are now available to all 7 English speaking countries served by AllLotto. These new country specific apps are live, as a free download, at the Apple iTunes store, in all 7 countries. The All Lotto iPhone app allows users to quickly load and easily view lottery drawing results for their country with a single click, to load the app. All versions of the applications can be downloaded via links at the AllLotto.com iPhone Apps page.

AllLotto.com has been the leading provider of US and international lottery drawing results since its launch in 1998. All Lotto currently operates web sites featuring lottery drawing results for 27 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France and Italy. The AllLotto.com network is an advertiser supported service that is accessible to internet users around the world for free.

“We are thrilled to be able launch this application for iPhone users in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK, for their home countries, in time for holiday season. There are so many special lottery drawings over the Christmas through New Years holiday and so much travelling that the timing of the release couldn’t be any better,” Chairman Fred Weiss noted in a statement. The company is planning on launching other free applications for Latin America and the non-English speaking countries of Europe in January 2010.

The company is confident that iPhone users in these additional countries will find the AllLotto application quick and easy to use. “We’ve been very happy with the response to our US application, we’re hoping the rest of the English speaking world will be similarly satisfied,” company President Stan Gregg added. AllLotto.com is owned an operated by Allsites, llc of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

About AllLotto.com and Allsites, llc

AllLotto.com was launched in 1999 and is the leading multi-state, multi-national lottery results news and feature portal. AllLotto.com is a owned and operated by Allsites, llc. Allsites, llc, its principals and its predecessor companies operate AllLotto.com, a Lottery data feed service, and create custom software for publishers around the world.

Ann Arbor, Michigan (transworldnews) - AllLotto.com, the premier provider of International lottery news and features has released its first iPhone application. The “AllLotto.com US Lottery Results” iPhone/iTouch application is available now at the Apple iTtunes store, as a free download. The All Lotto iPhone app allows users to quickly load and easily view lottery drawing results for any US state with single click from a list of states. The All Lotto application is live at Apple App Store and immediately available for free download: AllLotto at iTunes App Store

AllLotto.com has been the leading provider of US lottery drawing results, since its launch in 1998. All Lotto currently operates websites featuring lottery drawing results for 27 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France and Italy. The company recently launched sites for Panama and Costa Rica, the 26th and 27th countries covered by the AllLotto network.

“We’re very happy to provide iPhone users a free way of accessing lottery results without needing to load and zoom to read inside a browser. The AllLotto data is quick to load and easy to read, without any zooming.”, Chairman Fred Weiss said in a statement released late October 28th. The company is planing on launching other free applications for Canadian, Latin American, UK-Ireland, German and other European iPhone owners in November.

The company hopes that iPhone users will find the application, quick and easy to use. “We’ve spent our first 10 years online, working to ensure our readers can navigate quickly to the results they’re looking for. We hope our iPhone apps will continue to improve the user experience”, company President Stan Gregg noted in the company’s statement. AllLotto.com is owned an operated by Allsites, llc of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

About AllLotto.com and Allsites, llc

AllLotto.com was launched in 1999 and has established itself as the leading multi-state, multi-national lottery results news and feature portal. AllLotto.com is a owned and operated by Allsites, llc. Allsites, llc, its principals and predecessor companies provide lottery drawing data feeds and custom software to publishers internationally, creates and operates advertiser supported news and reference websites. AllLotto is available for other mobile phone users at: m.AllLotto.com

We’ve tried to keep our audience informed about lottery scams, in fact there are so many emails purporting to be notifications a lottery win, that we’ve created a website.  The site All Lottery Scams serves as an archive of the various emails received at our offices. Please, don’t believe anyone who ask your for money before sending your prize, that’s not a prize, it’s a scam.

Tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot expected to exceed $65 million, with a cash value of $43.4 million.  With the Powerball Jackpot already over $100 million, i’m starting to think we may soon have Mega Millions joining the the $100 million club.  From experience i expect that if the Mega Millions jackpot rolls over (increases for the next draw) tonight, the friday drawing will be for a prize between $81 million and $85 million.  If this occurs and a rollover occurs on friday, the drawing on April 14th would likely exceed $100 million.

While it’s all a bunch of “if x and y and z occurs” assumptions, but when you’re a lottery reporter, these little bursts of excitement are always nice to see!

Everytime the powerball or mega millions jackpot heads near $100 million, my interest in winning the lottery increases.  Now, don’t get me wrong, i’m interested in winning anything, but as that jackpot heads toward and past $100 million i start having my “millionaire” dreams.  Well, they aren’t really dreams, since i’m awake, it’s really a daydream/fantasy.

My dreams include the normal new home or 2, a ferarri or the like, and various first class trips to cities around the world.  While living this way is quite rare, i’m sure the fantasy isn’t.  Most of have some material dreams for our prize, some have dreams for their families, their friends or their favorite charities.

Tell us about some of your dreams of lottery riches, just register and post.

Next time you open an email that says you’ve won the Lotto, it’s probably worth thinking things over, prior to telling the boss to go jump in the lake.  In fact there are so many lottery scam emails that are circulating, i would suggest that it’s nearly a 100% chance that it was sent by criminals hoping to separate you from your money.  Here are a few rules of thumb for determining whether or not you’ve actually won.  Contrary to traditional advice of “if it sounds too good to be true”, i present these even more basic rules:

1. Did you buy a ticket for this lottery?

if you answered no, then you didn’t win, because you didn’t play.

2. Did your numbers match those drawn for the lottery you’ve allegedly won?

if you answered no, then you didn’t win, because you don’t have the winning numbers

3. Do you have the actual winning ticket in your hands?

if you answered no, then you didn’t win since you need the actual ticket to collect your prize.

If you answer no to any of these 3 questions, they you know it’s a scam.  Finally, if all else fails to keep you away from these people - Don’t EVER send money or banking information for collecting your prize.  The goal of the email they’ve sent you is to steal your money.  Don’t let it happen to you.

See some actual email lottery scams at www.AllLotteryScams.com

There were 2 tickets sold that match all 6 numbers in Saturday’s Powerball drawing.  The tickets were sold in Delaware and Pennsylvania and each ticket hold will share half of the jackpot which was expected to exceed $173 Million.  The jackpot for the Weds March 4th Powerball drawing has been reset to $20 million.

This leaves the $212 million Mega Millions, alone as the only $100+ million jackpot in the US.