Jonas Jacobi

At Kaazing, we have been experimenting with using a smartphone as a remote control for quite some time now. Those familiar with our demos may have seen our Zing-Pong demo (which is a “Pong”-style game using smartphones to control the paddles over WebSocket) or our Racer demo (which is a 3D Formula One car rendered in WebGL as a Chrome Experiment, and remotely controlled with a smartphone). These demos, along with the other demos we’ve created with Kaazing’s platform, use no plug-ins. You simply point a browser on your computer to the address of the object you want to control (for example, the gorgeous Formula One car rendered in WebGL) and a browser from your smartphone to the address of the remote control (an ID we generate for you). Once connected, you just…go! A couple of our Visionary Zingers, Prashant Khanal and David Witherspoon, then experimented with commun... (more)

Kaazing Powers Revolutionary Second Screen Solution

Do you ever find yourself googling, facebooking, or tweeting while watching TV? It happens to many of us: while watching a show or a live sports event, we feel the desire to consume, share, and look up additional content on another device, a second screen. With Kaazing’s Real-Time mobile and Web communication platform, Second Screen applications can be built quickly and securely. Kaazing’s Second Screen applications can not only push content to the mobile devices of your viewers with virtually no delay,  they also facilitate real-time bidirectional interactivity with them, bring... (more)

Kaazing Raises $15M to Modernize the Web & Mobile Enterprise

Kaazing has today announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $15 million funding round bringing the company’s total financing to $39 million. The capital was raised through new investors New Enterprise Associates Inc. (NEA) and Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP) as well as existing investors, to drive Kaazing’s plans for corporate growth. Rohini Chakravarthy, Partner at NEA: “With iPads and other smart mobile devices rapidly displacing PCs and accelerating cloud adoption, enterprise application modernization is increasingly urgent. Today’s static-web architectures are e... (more)

One Line of Code That Changed the Web Forever

After presenting to a partner of Kaazing last week I got asked what impact the emerging WebSocket standard would have on the Web, assuming we continue down the path that has already been laid out. The impact could be the same, or even more profound, as when we were first introduced to HTTP as a means to share static documents. The difference is that this time the targeted market is already defined – it is called the Web. I have over the past several years, half jokingly and half seriously, compared the current static Web with a push to talk radio (aka Walkie Talkie) and the new ... (more)

Real-Time Logistics and Bidding – An Allen Lund Company Case Study

Transportation broker and logistics provider, with nationwide offices, the Allen Lund Company works with shippers and carriers across the nation to arrange the transportation and logistics of dry, refrigerated (specializing in produce), and flatbed freight. As part of its mission to deliver superior customer service, Allen Lund offers a proprietary, lead-edge Transportation Management Solution to its global customers to help lower costs and time related to end-to-end management of load transport. The company believes that communication between the shippers and their carriers i... (more)