APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

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Network application programming interfaces (APIs) will “drive whole new types of capabilities and applications” for both consumers and businesses if they are rolled out as widely as many in the ...

Research In Motion is hoping to expand the types of applications developers can make for its BlackBerry handheld by adding APIs to the BlackBerry Java Development Environment. The new APIs will let ...

Like many of you, I have been following Dalton Caldwell's proposal for the future of App.net . I think Dalton's idea is ambitious and applaud his transparency and candor. That said, it appears that ...

Australian energy company Jemena has been using APIs, in some form, for about a decade. Its use of APIs — application programming interfaces — has jumped recently and is expected to increase fivefold ...