In the simplest terms, an API is a set of code conventions which programmers can use to interact with an external data source or web service.
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Farmeron is a Web data service that farmers can use to aggregate the troves of information produced about their animals: diet, health, reproduction, milk production and medicine or drug dosage.
He emphasized that Spamhaus doesn't have the power to block e-mail from anyone -- they merely make their data available for service providers and other Web companies to use.
In a demo of the new Web Analytics service using TechCrunch.com data, April Underwood of Twitter showed that over a seven-day period, there were close to 100, 000 Tweets that included a link to TechCrunch, with more than 500, 000 clicks to the site.
Arbor Networks is able to determine the ebbs and flows of Web traffic by aggregating data provided by 250 Internet-service providers around the world.
While these students will, no doubt, receive the email reminder they should also, in this new socially connected business, be able to view the course and their classmates on a self-service web portal that draws on the data from the HR system.
Google in June launched Map Maker, a service that lets people upload location data to its Web site.
In June, skobbler announced the beta release of GeOS, a new access technology platform that allows app developers and web service providers easy, yet powerful implementation of OpenStreetMap data into their products.
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In addition to using First Data to collect money from customers, Pappas uses ScanAlert, a Web site security service.
The denial of service attack, where hackers jam a Web site with useless data that tie up the site's computers, slowed the news site's operations for nearly two hours, CNN.com spokeswoman Edna Johnson said.
Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.
Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.
The deal gives Nextlink a toehold in Europe, high-speed data lines, web-hosting and e-commerce services and the right to haul traffic for Internet service providers.
Through its affordable, flat-rate service plans, Cricket offers customers a choice of unlimited voice, text, data and mobile Web services.
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Those included posting private data, including credit-card and Social Security numbers, of Web users and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against media sites who posted stories they didn't like.
While anyone can still visit the site for free and check their email address or username, users can also pay a dollar a month for a service that emails them an automatic alert if their account data has been dumped by hackers on the Web.
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The World Wide Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet, now permits millions of American voters to access data about issues and candidates, allows politicians to create their own web pages for further dissemination of information, offers information on campaign contributions, and even includes "push technology, " whereby Internet users can customize the type of information they receive from Web sources.
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