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.

Happy Technology from Lightstreamer!

Weswit Srl, the maker of Lightstreamer, would like to wish you happiness and great technological choices for this end of year and the beginning of 2012!

As you probably know, Lightstreamer is the leading technology for exchanging low-latency real-time data over the Web. You take care of your application, we take care of efficient and reliable data delivery, whatever platforms you are using on the server side (Java, .NET, etc.) and on the client side (web browsers, native mobile apps, or whatever).

More and more finance, aerospace, gaming,  and other types of companies are taking benefit from the real-time communication capabilities of Lightstreamer, moving toward the True Real-Time Web.

Expect many exciting news in the course of 2012 as for Weswit's product offering!

Cheers,

The Lightstreamer Team

Lightstreamer 4.0.2 Released

An update to Lightstreamer software is available for download.

Lightstreamer Server v. 4.0.2 contains a fix that solves a potential issue with polling mode and older browsers.

Other minor changes to Lightstreamer Server and to some client libraries are included, as explained in the detailed changelog.

Our engineering team is currently working hard on the new release of Lightstreamer software, which will include several new and exciting features... (More on this later).

Nice banner

We are rolling out a new Lightstreamer banner :)

 

NASA and Lightstreamer for Project Morpheus

NASA's Undergraduate Student Research Program site recently published an interesting paper by Matthew Noyes and Robert Hirsh: Rendering Flight Telemetry in Platform-Independent Three-Dimensional Touch-Interactive Simulations (PDF download).

The paper describes an innovative project where Lightstreamer is used for pushing spacecraft telemetry data to tablet devices, which render a 3D representation of the vehicle in real time.

Real-Time Forever...

With refreshed minds and bodies after summer vacation, the Lightstreamer team is working hard on several new exciting ideas. Lightstreamer will keep shaping the future of the real-time Web :-)

Make sure to follow us not only through this blog, but via the other social channels too. We post short updates on Twitter (@Lightstreamer) and propagate them to LinkedIn and Facebook. Find all the details here.

Lightstreamer Server 4.0.1 Released

A new update to Lightstreamer Server 4.0 is available for download.
The new version is 4.0.1 build 1513.1.3.

This release fixes a bug introduced with Lightstreamer 4.0 that affects HTTPS connections. Under some circumstances, when very large control requests are sent (usually due to very long item and field names, combined with high numbers of subscriptions) the underlying TLS/SSL connection may break.

Patch Release Available

We recently released an update to the latest distribution of Lightstreamer (codename Duomo, which contains Server 4.0 and HTML Client 5.0).

Such update, which is available from the usual download page, contains two changes:

Push Technology, Comet, and WebSockets: 10 years of history from Lightstreamer's perspective

By Alessandro Alinone (originally published on Comet Daily)

More than ten years have passed since the creation of Lightstreamer. Now that Lightstreamer 4.0 is generally available, it is a good moment to look back at what happened in the history of Push/Comet and to share a short analysis of the current trends from Lightstreamer’s perspective.

Lightstreamer 4.0 Released!

We are very proud to announce that the new version of Lightstreamer, codename Duomo, is now generally available.

New Lightstreamer contains many exciting improvements, making it the perfect solution whenever you need to deliver real-time messages through the Internet.

Performance has been improved, making Lightstreamer Server even more scalable and faster than before. It is now easier to manage the system, via the new logging facility and new JMX interface. Many stability and reliability improvements have been introduced across all the code.

Stream Real-Time Data to Mobile Apps

One of the tasks recently completed by the Lightstreamer engineering team has been to provide maximum support for all mobile platforms, so that any mobile app for any device could easily become real-time enabled.

The new release of Lightstreamer, codename Duomo, which will be publicly available next week, will contain a lot of exciting new features to extend the power of Lightstreamer's push to every mobile clients.

For each mobile platform, a dedicated full-blown SDK is provided, containing native libs, documentation, and source-code examples and demos. Supported platforms are: Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Java ME.

Lightstreamer has a New Logo

After ten years' great service, it was time to replace the Lightstreamer logo with a brand new one, more up to date and stylish.

New iPhone and iPad Lightstreamer Example

Next Lightstreamer version, codename Duomo, will have many new exciting features, including some brand new client APIs. We now directly cover all the mobile app technologies out there, including iOS. We have recently published on Apple Store a simple iOS application that is a good example of how to leverage the iOS Client API for Lightstreamer inside an Objective-C application.

Previously, to develop iOS applications that could receive real-time data from Lightstreamer Server you had to use a third-party client library. Now we provide our own officially supported API.

The new example, provided with full source code, shows a simple grid updated in real-time with market data generated by Lightstreamer Server. Such application automatically adapts to both iPhone and iPad.