Kaazing Aims To Drive a New Generation of Real-Time Rich Internet Applications
Original post provide by Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINEAre you trading stocks online today, or playing poker online? Ever asked yourself why many of these service providers require you to download and install a desktop solution? Wouldn’t it be better if you could receive information such as stock prices, betting information, sports, and news in real-time over the Web without having to install additional software or plug-ins? Kaazing, recently selected among the 77 companies invited to showcase leading-edge technologies at this year’s DEMO conference, claims to have the technology answer to this.
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