The New WinRT SDK and Demo

With the introduction of Windows 8, a new application architecture, namely Windows Runtime or WinRT, was also introduced.

WinRT, which has to be used for an application to be published on the Windows Store, is not fully compatible with the old .NET framework. But don't worry, we've got you covered again: with the release of Lightstreamer 5.1 we have made available a brand new WinRT client SDK that can be used to develop Lightstreamer-enabled Windows Store apps.

Our Season's Greetings...

It seems that even Lightstreamer has been affected by the holiday season mood :) 

We would like to wish all the Lightstreamer users a happy holiday season and a prosperous 2013 year!

Thanks for supporting us.

Warm regards,
The Lightstreamer Team

Lightstreamer 5.1 Has Been Released

We are very excited to announce that a new version of Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download.

The new package, tagged Lightstreamer 5.1 Colosseo 20121220, contains updated versions of several components (such as Lightstreamer Server 5.1, Lightstreamer JavaScript Client 6.0.1, Lightstreamer iOS Client 1.2, etc.) as well as a brand new client SDK for Windows 8 WinRT.

Meet Our Customers: EFG Hermes

A short interview with Waleed Kamel, Software Development Manager at EFG Hermes, a premier investment bank in the Middle East.

Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"EFG Hermes is a premier investment bank in the Middle East and is recognized as the market leader in securities brokerage, asset management, investment banking, private equity, and research in this area. EFG Hermes has a huge number of customers, ranging from governments and corporations to institutional and individual investors".

Meet Our Customers: BuzzAllStars

A short interview with Rob O'Dea, founder and CEO at BuzzAllStars, an innovative social gaming platform that allows players to interact and compete during live sports events.

Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

Buzz All Stars is a platform for interactive social games that will revolutionize the way sports fans engage with each other through live sports, creating the ultimate social gaming experience.

Lightstreamer won a comparison at Java2Days 2012 Conference

We are happy to see that Lightstreamer resulted the winner in a presentation titled "Realtime Apps with Lightstreamer, GWT & HTML5" by Detelin Zlatev and Mariyan Nenchev from Cayetano Gaming, at the recent Java2Days 2012 Conference.

Java2Days 2012 Conference took place on October 25-26 in Sofia, Bulgaria to highlight today’s cutting edge Java trends in field of software development, technologies, and business. 

Meet Our Customers: LearnShip

A short interview with Jürgen Jatzkowski, CTO at LearnShip, a specialist in online foreign languages training.
  
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"LearnShip is a specialist in online foreign languages training. The LearnShip platform offers a state-of-the-art virtual classroom for individual or small groups lessons, integrating an advanced multimedia digital technology to provide a face-to-face educational experience simply impossible to replicate in the traditional classroom settings. Learnship offers qualified instructors teaching in their native language and more flexibility comparing to any other traditional language school, as students can join the lessons regardless of where they effectively are - just a computer and a Internet access is needed".

Meet Our Customers: DCM Capital

A short interview with Paul Laight, CTO of DCM Capital Ltd, an online CFD, Forex and spread betting platform with unique social media twitter sentiment analysis technology.
 
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"The world’s first multi-asset online trading platform with integrated social media sentiment analysis technology".

Lightstreamer Goes All In with bwin.party

We are thrilled to announce that the Lightstreamer technology has been selected by bwin.party to power its world-class gaming and betting platforms.

According to their public statements, the Group has generated pro-forma net revenues in 2011 of €816.0m and commands leading market positions in four product verticals: online sports betting, poker, casino, and bingo, with some of the world’s biggest online gaming brands including bwin, PartyPoker, PartyCasino and Foxy Bingo with proprietary gaming platforms.

How to Upgrade to Web Client Library 6 and Later

Lightstreamer JavaScript client version 6 brings some new interesting features and some long-awaited changes. This time we’ve chosen not to pass from the deprecate-first remove-then path as we’ve always done: in fact the entire API was completely designed from scratch to be more flexible and easy to use. Unfortunately, this also means that some effort is necessary to migrate your code based on Lightstreamer HTML Client 4 or 5 to the new Lightstreamer JavaScript Client 6 and later.
This guide was written to help you with the migration. Only the simplest way to do the porting is illustrated; it is obviously possible to use more complicated techniques. Also following only the guide you will not exploit many of the new capabilities of the library, so, before doing the porting I suggest you to check the changelog, the new Development Guide and the Tutorial.

Dynamic Bandwidth and Frequency Management

If you have been knowing Lightstreamer for a long time, you appreciate that it has always been particularly good at managing the bandwidth used by the stream connection and the individual update rate of each subscription.

In addition to heuristically spot network congestions and adapting the data flow automatically, Lightstreamer has always offered an API call to dynamically change the maximum bandwidth granted to a given stream session.

The good news is that now both Lightstreamer 4.1 and 5.0 allow you to change the maximum frequency granted to each individual subscription on the fly.

Meet Our Partners - Markets Pulse

A short interview with Ravit Friedberg, Product Manager of Markets Pulse, an Enterprise Binary Option technology provider for online trading companies.
 
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"Markets Pulse provides financial companies with advanced binary options technology, offering a great addition to any online trading platform. The offering includes easy-to-integrate back office and technologically advanced front-end trading platforms. The technology is installed completely on-site, providing confidentiality of data and a customizable trading experience. Working with regulated companies such as FxTrade Financial and Gallant Capital Markets, the technology is also ready for regulation".

Meet Our Customers: CanDeal.Ca

A short interview with Joe D'Alessandro, CTO of CanDeal.Ca, the leading electronic marketplace for Canadian dollar debt securities.
  
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"CanDeal provides institutional market participants with an electronic marketplace for Canadian dollar debt securities. Currently we operate in Canada, US and Europe with 200+ Institutional investors and 13 investment dealers".

Lightstreamer in a PhoneGap app

[UPDATE 2014]The original hello world application was simplified by the PhoneGap team. We adapted our own demo to be as close as possible to the original one. As a result some of the descriptions of this article are a bit outdated. Most of it is still valid though, so you can safely go on reading.[/UPDATE]

As a JavaScript guy and mostly-OS-agnostic kind of person I wait for the day when I will be able to fully exploit the power of ApplicationCache and other new JS APIs such as GeoLocation and IndexedDB, to install the same web application and have the same OS-integrated experience on my Windows notebook, my Sabayon box or on my Android Smartphone. Not to mention the pleasure of sharing the exact same app with my iOS, Windows Phone or Tizen oriented friends.

Also, as a developer, not having to develop a native application per each OS out there would be a big plus.

Lightstreamer 5.0 Colosseo is now available!

We are very thrilled to announce that the final release of Lightstreamer 5.0, codename Colosseo, is now generally available for download.

Lightstreamer 5.0 includes full support for WebSockets, a brand new JavaScript client API, impressive performance boost, and many new features.

Meet our Customers: FINODEX BV

A short interview with Herbert Robijn, Founder and Managing Director of FINODEX, a Dutch company that builds investment tools.
  
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"Web-based investment tools for equities, options, and leveraged products (e.g. Turbo's)". 

Who is the typical user of your product or service?

"B2B: banks, brokers and financial portals who provide our tools white labeled to their retail clients. B2C: we sell our tools via direct channel".

Start Me Up!

No, we are not talking about the old, amazing Rolling Stones Song. We are just enthusiastic to introduce the Startup Program, a way Weswit can provide promising new businesses with Lightstreamer technology at an exceptionally generous rate.

We are more than sure that smart tools are mandatory requirements to transform a good idea into a great success. Many promising start-ups need real-time data streaming for their ideas to take off, but they simply can't afford the additional investment in the early stages. We think that if some companies are given the chance to thrive, we can thrive with them: that's why we decided to offer Lightstreamer only to a few, valuable start-ups every year.

Weswit Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm for its Lightstreamer Product

Cool Vendor Report 2012 Cites Weswit, with its Lightstreamer Product, as Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing in the Area of Application and Integration Platforms.

Weswit is proud to announce that it has been recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor in Application and Integration Platforms" in the report published on April 11, 2012 (i).

Lightstreamer 5.0 Preview Release Available

We are very excited to announce that an early-availability release of next generation Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download: Lightstreamer 5.0, codename Colosseo.

Lightstreamer includes now full support for WebSockets, the new Web standard from IETF that enables bi-directional, full-duplex communication over the Web. Even if WebSockets are not yet universally supported by browsers and network infrastructure, Lightstreamer is able to automatically choose the best transport, among the many available, based on the characteristics of each client. The Stream-Sense algorithm of Lightstreamer will make sure that the real-time data will travel to and from any possible client, connected through any existing proxies and firewalls.

Lightstreamer 4.0.3 Released

A patch release of Lightstreamer 4, codename Duomo, is now generally available for download.

Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.3 build 1513.1.11 contains some fixes that solve potential issues with polling mode.

In particular, with previous versions (from 4.0 to 4.0.2) under some circumstances, polling cycles might be more frequent than needed or return less updates than requested.



NASA Apps for Android and iOS Released

Android screenshot

We are very happy to see that the ISSLive native applications, for both Android and iOS (iPhone and iPad), have been publicly released by NASA.

ISSLive uses Lightstreamer on all the three channels currently available (HTML, native Android, and native iOS) to stream live data from the International Space Station. Real-time updates coming from the ISS onboard systems are displayed within visual consoles.

Proud to Be a Component of the Eco-District Technology Environment

by digitalart

An Eco-District is a small-scale area such as a neighborhood or a district with a community commitment to achieving neighborhood-scale sustainability. Smart Grid is one of the key features included.

The Smart Grid is a vision of the future electricity delivery infrastructure that improves network efficiency and resilience, while empowering consumers and addressing energy sustainability concerns. To make the grid "smarter," and capable of addressing the need to decarbonize generation sources and enable end-user energy efficiency, utilities will have to improve observability and controllability of their networks, while transforming them into geodesic structures that intersperse a variety of distributed energy resources – some owned and operated by consumers.

Social Gaming is Here to Stay

In 2011, Buzz All Stars moved to Silicon Valley with a simple vision. Sport is Social (TM) and fans watching Live Sports want Match Tracking Game Play in a Social TV environment on their Second Screen and Smart TV devices.

This is the statement that appears on the home page of buzzallstars.com, a Silicon Valley company that is innovating the way live sports events can be enjoyed.