In this, Forbes is part of a shift away from the page-based legacy of print to an API-based stream.
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The API is designed to play nice with Android's existing location-based API, but it's unclear if the ease of transition will be enough to convince devs to take a chance on Amazon's offering.
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By the time we get to Froyo, the underlying platform -- and the API that devs need to target -- will be reaching legitimate maturity for the first time, which means we should have far fewer tasty treat-themed code names to worry about over the course of an average year.
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The plan is for Hebron to be putting out 150, 000 bpd of heavy oil (20-degree API) by 2017.
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Third-party API calls now total 75 million a day, a number that has doubled in the last 12 months.
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He says that with the previous REST-based API there were things like naming confusion, thanks to "digg" being both a verb and a noun.
According to Caldwell, a self-described Twitter groupie, there was a point when Twitter considered building a business around its real-time API, but instead opted to focus on advertising.
None, as it turns out -- API support for the firm's mug recognition software will be dropped in early August, and its iPhone app, Klik, is now gone from the App Store.
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Without approval, we don't expect to see any standard apps with the API built-in, however with the headset's current wide open nature, we assume interested hackers will be able to get the software running if they so desire.
Freespace Sensor Modules are used by engineers to add inertial motion control to a product without having to learn about motion sensing or MEMS. These compact modules, the smallest of which is 9mm x 19mm x 2.5mm, are pre-calibrated for mass production, provide a well-documented API for interpreting motion, and provide data such as cursor position, linear acceleration, angular position, and angular velocity to enable the creation of novel applications.
While this information is more comprehensive than what third-party providers have, Twitter is also making this data available via an API to these third-party providers to use.
So everything on a Famo.us page is searchable, indexable and live-swappable from API feeds.
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The unleashing of a fully-baked crowdfunding API into the wider web will likely have widespread and unexpected consequences.
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Perhaps counter-intuitively, API driven platforms gives publishers more control over how to monetize their content now, and particularly in the future.
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An open API allows third-party developers to design custom apps for Popslate -- including accelerometer support to interact with the backside screen by tapping on it.
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Apigee - the leading API platform for enterprises and developers.
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In addition to our awesome gateway API, rave-worthy support, and transparent pricing, clients choose Braintree because of our experience supporting merchants as they grow from early stage all the way up to major online players.
The TITAN card offers two dual-link DVI, HDMI and Display Port 1.2 and also supports Microsoft DirectX 11.1 API and is NVIDIA 3D vision-Ready, SLI-Ready.
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Every manual is available online, as downloadable PDFs, through dedicated mobile apps like iFixit's iOS app-or through custom API applications.
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The shift from a read-only to writable API marks a shift in strategy for Digg, which in recent months has focused on growing via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Once upon a time, Netflix was proud enough of its public API which enabled third-party services and apps to serve up its data and content in different ways that it opened a gallery to display them.
While not nearly as visible a part of the business as the consumer-facing app, the API is a hit with developers, some 40, 000 of whom use it for location and venue data.
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There are free Android and iOS apps for those that just want to check their vitals and be done with it, but tinkerers can have a field day with the open-source hardware and upcoming API.
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Costolo then went on to imply that the reason behind the tighter ( and unpopular) API controls was ensuring quality -- stating that Twitter would reach its full potential now there's more control over how tweets are delivered.
Earlier this week the streaming hi-fi hardware maker Sonos announced that it was opening up its API (Application Programming Interface) so that music services could build apps - and those already include Spotify.
In the past, non-commercial use of the Maps API was essentially unlimited.
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The software interface for Glass is a type of web app called the Mirror API, and not a full-blown operating system like Android.
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Other projects included a dashboard that predicts when petitions will cross the 100, 000 signature threshold, documentation and step-by-step primers on using the API, email alert systems that inform you when a petition on an issue you care about has been created, and more.
Advertisers can mix and copy ad campaign data within third-party services that use the AdWords API.
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