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- Application Programming Interface A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management...
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- Apple iPhone SDK 3.1 beta (Mac)
- With over 1,000 new APIs, iPhone SDK 3.0 provides developers with a range of new possibilities to enhance the functionality of their applications. New APIs also provide support for applications to communicate with hardware accessories attached to iPhone or iPod touch.
- Software downloads 2009-06-30
- Six ways to run SOA as an internal cloud business
- We probably could argue for another 10 years about the ROI of SOA. Is there ROI? If so, why isn't there more of it? How do we measure it? How should SOA be sold to the business? Why won't the business provide more funding? Or, we could...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Serial Port Control 2.1.4 (Windows)
- Software developers can access various devices by utilizing the Windows API. When using an API, you gain access to a full spectrum of available features, but API programming is a very tough and time-consuming task. You have to study the documentation and you have to create all the high-level functionality...
- Software downloads 2009-06-18
- Running your SOA like a Web startup
- Running your SOA like a Web startupPhenomenal articleDion, this is a tour de force that will certainly be required reading at Mashery and recommended reading for the dozens of customers whose APIs we run.Opening an API is indeed a business decision. And often the open API leverages the services created...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-13
- Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip power
- Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip powerOne question ...... never mind the marketing crap ... does it speed things up a lot, or not?Until developers use APIs, minimal speed up.Better internal handling of threads will make a minimal difference for existing applications. When applications start using the specialized APIs,...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Twitter API ripe for abuse by web worms
- Twitter API ripe for abuse by web wormsTwitter Phishing ProblemMy Twitter account was hacked check out probably due to Phishing attack on some third party applications. Check out - http://bawaal.com/blog/?p=295RE: Twitter API ripe for abuse by web wormsThat is one good reason NOT to use Twitter.RE: Twitter API ripe for...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- News to know: Facebook; Psystar Chapter 11; Intel; Twitter API; Nokia's Ovi Store
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Twitter API ripe for abuse by web worms
- A security researcher is warning that the Twitter API can be trivially abused by hackers to launch worm attacks. The red-hot social networking/microblogging service has been scrambling to plug cross-site scripting and other Web site vulnerabilities to thwart worm attacks but, as researcher Aviv Raff points out,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Clear Channel Outdoor Simplifies Targeted Advertising, Shows Clients the "Real Picture" With Google Maps API Premier
- Clear Channel Outdoor - Plakanda AG CCO is the Swiss subsidiary of Clear Channel Outdoor Holding, one of the world's leading outdoor advertising companies. Companies who are planning to take advertising measures want to make sure that their advertising reaches the target groups which they are aiming for. Clear Channel...
- Case studies 2009-05-17
- Easily spam Twitter with trending topics API
- Easily spam Twitter with trending topics APIExcellent Article!Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- Easily spam Twitter with trending topics API
- The new search sidebar on Twitter could be lethal. Hackers are using the trends API to build bots that retweet spam messages. by Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
- MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Parallel Computing APIs in .NET 4.0 With Mark Michaelis (Level 200)
- The presenters chat about how .NET 4.0 simplifies this paradigm with new APIs that leverage the power of recent .NET language extensions and .NET 4.0 API enhancements - Task Parallel Library and ParallelLINQ.
- Webcasts 2009-05-06
- Facebook opens up with new Open Stream API
- Facebook opens up with new Open Stream APIFollow me on Twitter no Facebooklooks like Twitter is gaining ground and Facebook needs to open it's chat option to the public. That's the thing with Twitter, you can easily access the data anywhere w/ their simple API, now Facebook needs to...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Facebook opens up with new Open Stream API
- Facebook historically has been the social network known for bringing lots of information in but rarely letting information out. Today, the company announced a new Open Stream API that will allow developers access the home page and profile streams. This will allow home page feed and user profile data to...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Facebook opens up, launches Open Stream API
- Facebook said Monday it will open its streaming data to third party developers. In a blog post, Facebook outlined the plans also see documentation. The Facebook Open Stream API will allow developers to incorporate the user data on Facebook in other applications. Users can choose whether their...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Open APIs for secure social enterprise computing drive innovation
- * Jennifer Leggio is at RSA Conference Guest editorial by Chet Kapoor and Michael Richardson As the "Chief Innovation Officer" now for most enterprises, the CIO needs a new portfolio of social computing capable methodologies to enable collaboration between empowered users inside and adjacent...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- JExplorer 2.1 (Windows)
- JExplorer provides a convenient Java API for integrating Microsoft Internet Explorer into Java applications as a Java Swing UI component in headless mode, so you can embed it into the UI to manipulate programmatically without specific knowledge of COM or the Microsoft Internet Explorer API. Version 2.1 adds Java Applets...
- Software downloads 2009-04-16
- Adobe, Facebook team on API library
- Adobe, Facebook team on API libraryGood...Adobe isn't taking Silverlight lying down. Keep improving, competing, spreading out.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Adobe, Facebook team on API library
- Adobe and Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a set of developer tools to better use Flash in social applications. Adobe's is publishing an open source programming language library that will support all of Facebook's application programming interfaces APIs. The developer documentation can be found at...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Blumenthal needs to define the word open
- Blumenthal needs to define the word openOpen Like Google?Please clarify how Google is and example of 'open' ??? Google does publish some of its API, but it is a generally secretive company and reverse engineering its algorithms are the subject of a minor industry for Search Engine Optimization....
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
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