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Quora eyes expansion with API release

...question-and-answer site with a social-networking angle, has released an application programming interface that opens the door for third-party software to use... Read more

10 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
Inferring Method Specifications From Natural Language API Descriptions

Inferring Method Specifications From Natural Language API Descriptions

Application Programming Interface (API) documents are a typical way of describing legal usage... Read more

30 March, 2012
Cloudmark Server Edition 2.4

Cloudmark Server Edition 2.4

...Edition communicates with the Microsoft Exchange Server through Microsoft's standard Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI). It receives notifications when messages arrive, then checks the... Read more

15 December, 2011

There is an App for that: Microsoft and the Apps Game?

...developers need to encourage them to hop over from Cocoa (Apple’s application programming interface) to Windows 8 Developer. As the saying goes… If you... Read more

13 December, 2011

Google+ API gets search functionality

...develop apps for its social network, Google+. The company unveiled an early application programming interface (API) for Google+ in mid-September, making it possible for... Read more

6 October, 2011

Android gets tool to counter fragmentation

...can be built into applications so that programmers can use the Fragment application programming interface (API) even if it's not in the operating system... Read more

5 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
Java SE 6.0 (JDK 6) 1.6.2.1

Java SE 6.0 (JDK 6) 1.6.2.1

...download a free Java IDE tool - NaviCoder. In addition, The Java SE application programming interface (API) defines the manner by which an applet or application... Read more

22 February, 2011

Google: Oracle altered Java Android code evidence

...libraries and documentation owned by Oracle. "Approximately one third of Android's application [programming] interface (API) packages are derivative of Oracle America's copyrighted Java... Read more

15 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Oracle: Google copied Java code in Android

...libraries and documentation owned by Oracle. "Approximately one third of Android's application [programming] interface (API) packages are derivative of Oracle America's copyrighted Java... Read more

28 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Google puts open-source Wave in a 'box'

...store-and-search implementation, North said. Other features of the package include application programming interface (API) support for Wave gadgets, robots and data, and for... Read more

3 September, 2010 by David Meyer

Google takes Acre fully open source

...that it still has close ties to Freebase, such as using numerous application programming interface (API) hooks that quickly and easily plug in to the... Read more

27 August, 2010 by Ben Woods
Canonical: The cloud shift is developer-led

Canonical: The cloud shift is developer-led

...Being able to move between the companies where the technology, implementation and application programming interface [API] are the same and software may or may not... Read more

27 August, 2010 by Jack Clark

Red Hat targets interoperability with cloud updates

...outlined the interoperability strategy for its Cloud Foundations stack, submitted its Deltacloud application programming interface to a standardisation body, and announced a new platform-as... Read more

27 August, 2010 by Jack Clark

BlackBerry users get first native VoIP client

...clients. He said this was partly because the platform has no SIP application programming interface (API) and partly because the general developer kit "has been... Read more

23 August, 2010 by David Meyer
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Erics TelNet98 15.1-SSH

...are included in the package. User definable screen resolution and key codes, Application Programming Interface, and Policy Editor Read more

23 May, 2012

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