New Lightstreamer Version Released Today

A new version of the Lightstreamer software suite has been released.
Below is a summary of the main changes. The detailed change log is available.

Shareprice Android Application Available

After the iPhone application, Shareprice has released another version for Google Android.

The new application is available in the Android Market for users of the T-Mobile G1 phone.

It streams real-time tick-by-tick price movements from the London Stock Exchange, using Lightstreamer as the push engine.

More information is available from the Shareprice site.

Evaluation Licenses Extended to 60 Days!

Starting from now, the Evaluation licenses generated for Lightstreamer Allegro/Presto/Vivace will last 60 days, instead of 30. Even if we easily extended the 30-day license on request, we thought developers need more time by default to evaluate the product while probably working on many other parallel activities...

James Ward Interviews Alessandro Alinone

James Ward (Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe) interviewed me during the AJAXWorld 2008 in San Jose. We talked about Lightstreamer's support for Flash and Flex. Here is the video:

Lightstreamer at SIFMA Europe on 2-3 Dec 2008

Lightstreamer will have a booth at SIFMA European Technology Management Conference & Exhibition (the title of which will be "Market Crisis: Threat or Opportunity for IT?").
Please come and visit us. We will be glad to show you some Lightstreamer demonstrations and to answer any technical or sales questions you might have.
SIFMA European Technology Management Conference & Exhibition2-3 December 2008
East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf
London (UK)

Shareprice iPhone Application Available

Shareprice has released on the UK iTunes app store the first approved native iPhone application to integrate with Lightstreamer in order to stream prices between the ‘market’ and the iPhone.

iStreamLight: Lightstreamer for the iPhone

Now it's official. There exists an open-source project that has released a native iPhone client library for Lightstreamer.

The project, created by Gianluca Bertani, is named iStreamLight and is hosted on Google Code. It is fully compatible with Cocoa Touch and the iPhone SDK 2.1 and requires Lightstreamer Presto or Vivace on the server side.

Four New Customers Added to the Public List

We have just added four Lightstreamer's customers to our public list:

• Ciptadana
• EFG-Hermes
• MetalPrices
• Zagrebacka Banka

Lightstreamer 3.5 Has Been Released

I am happy to announce that Lightstreamer Server v.3.5 is now available, together with updated versions of all the development kits (including Lightstreamer Web Client v.4.3).
Download new Lightstreamer distribution now

OpenAjax Alliance 2008 InteropFest: Test Passed

Lightstreamer has just passed the 2008 InteropFest, organized by the OpenAjax Alliance. This the third InteropFest since the creation of the OpenAjax Alliance and Lightstreamer has been successful in all the tests.

Three OpenAjax Metadata files were created to document the Lightstreamer Web Client libraries in a standard, interoperable format.

For more information, visit the 2008 InteropFest wiki.

No1 Currency Added to the Customer List

Just added a new public customer, No1 Currency, to our online list (which is very partial as many of our customers still prefer to stay private; but we are working to add more and more public references).

Lightstreamer 3.5 Is Out

We have just released the new version of all Lightstreamer components, including Lightstreamer Server v.3.5 and Lightstreamer Web Client v.4.3.

Everything is available from the usual download page.

Please remember you need to get compatible licenses (be them free or commercial) to enable Lightstreamer 3.5.

A newsletter and a press release will follow in the the next days or weeks.

AJAXWorld October 20-22, 2008 - San Jose, CA

Lightstreamer will be a Bronze Sponsor of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo 2008 West.

We'll be glad to meet you at our booth, where you can ask any questions on Lightstreamer technology.

October 20-22, 2008
www.ajaxworld.com

Fairmont Hotel
San Jose - California
USA

EiG Expo 2008 in Barcelona

Lightstreamer will be exibiting at the 7th Annual European i-Gaming Congress and Expo. With over 1300 attendees expected, EiG 2008 will be the biggest ever.

Come and visit us at booth #752.

23-25 September 2008
www.eigexpo.com

Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona
Rambla Prim, 1-17
08019 Barcelona
Spain

Lightstreamer on Google Chrome

Chrome, the new Google browser, was released a couple of days ago as a beta version for Windows Vista/XP and officially entered the browser war, currently dominated by Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome offers many interesting features, aimed at making the browsing experience more robust, more secure, and faster. I was especially interested in the new V8 JavaScript engine, with its just-in-time compiler and a full-fledged garbage collector.

Updated Lightstreamer Components

Summer newsletter just sent out:

There will be several exciting news on Lightstreamer in September, after the summer holidays (as August, here in Italy, is the typical month for taking a break..).

A significant update to all the Lightstreamer components will be released (more details below).

We are very happy with the positive feedbacks that our customers and partners have provided on the quality of Lightstreamer software and of our support service. Furthermore, the developer community that has formed around the free edition of Lightstreamer is quite enthusiastic. So I would like to thank everybody for helping us continuously improve.

New Tutorial on Socket-Based Adapters

I have just published a new article on Comet Daily, which explains how to develop a Lightstreamer Data Adapter based on plain sockets, instead of Java or .NET libraries:
“Hello World” for Sockets with Lightstreamer

AMT / Taroby: A New Partner from India

Advanced Millenium Technologies and Lightstreamer have entered into a strategic partnership through which AMT will act as a reseller of Lightstreamer products in India. In AMT's new product Taroby, AMT plans to integrate Lightstreamer technology for live message delivery and push functions in high performing collaboration environments.

UPDATE (August 19, 2008): A press release with more details is available.

iPhone Puzzle: A Native Lightstreamer Client?

Just published a musing on CometDaily, talking about the possible existence of a native Lightstreamer client library for iPhone 2.0...

Lightstreamer on Firefox 3

The final version of Firefox 3 has been released this week and, as anticipated in previous tests done on beta versions, Lightstreamer has proved to take full advantage of the increased performance on this browser.

In this video I will show the seamless behavior of the "engine migration mechanism". Then, I will increase the number of tabs concurrently displaying real-time data. I will stop at 10 tabs, due to the CPU consumption of the screen recording software. But under normal conditions, I opened 70 tabs without saturating the client CPU!