Facebook provides a set of open application programming interfaces (APIs) that allows third parties to develop Facebook applications.
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One key: opening up the site's application programming interfaces (APIs) to outside developers.
Instead, Oracle is making a copyright claim on the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) used to communicate with the Java programming language.
Outside software developers were also promised the coding or API's (application programming interfaces) that Windows developers have for programs like Microsoft Office.
During the event, GM introduced a new set of vehicle application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling developers to build apps for GM vehicles' infotainment systems.
Juniper has also opened up its application programing interfaces to 70 outside developers, in the hopes of generating some new ideas around network efficiency and functionality.
For example, Google's "APIs, " or application programming interfaces, the tools used to develop applications for a platform, pass on information about the identity of the user.
In short, the Learning Registry has created open application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow publishers and others to quickly publish metadata and paradata about their content.
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Of the approximately 3, 000 e-commerce application program interfaces, or APIs, that define how to write programs for software and online services, he says, Siri had implemented 45.
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Crucially, the case focuses not on using the Java programming language itself, but rather the use of 37 application programming interfaces (APIs) which help developers create software on the platform.
Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced it will work with Google to provide content and search-based solutions enabled by Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for the second-generation of the automaker's innovative UVO eServices telematics system.
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Khanna said Microsoft is trying to ease that workload by building some of the changes into the application programming interfaces (API) so developers can write to the APIs instead of building the coding into the applications.
To keep the momentum going, the Energy Department is announcing the release of 20 new datasets, three new application programing interfaces to make data easily accessible by software developers, and hundreds of qualified data links in the Energy.
While COBOL has not gone away at the banks, more and more of the technical staff spend their time programming new features and interfaces in modern languages and web application frameworks that provide highly applicable and transferable skills to startups only too happy to hire them for their technical training and domain experience.
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Being a young industry, there are few tools, procedures or standard data formats or service interfaces in place to guarantee data, computer application and service portability.
Simplified user interfaces mean customers are able to develop an application within minutes using a broad range of tools and demonstration software, with minimal cost and effort.
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