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Slingshot allows the delivery of real time market data across
securely. The first beta-test version was released free to
the Internet on 6 August 1996. Slingshot allows any financial
institution, regardless of size, to publish their rates and
associated information to a global audience using standard
Internet protocols and software. The
real-time data can be
application and thus combined with static text, database
queries and even audio and video objects, to create services.
The Slingshot protocol enables the delivery of other forms of
real time data over the Internet, thus making Slingshot useful
in industries as varied as manufacturing, betting, telemetry,
weather, transport and medicine.
Version 2's improved protocol minimises the required
everywhere where normal web access is possible.
(2003-05-13)