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.
Apple is supplying this confidential information to help you plan for the adoption of the technologies and programming interfaces described herein.
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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.
Programming interfaces will let you hook in deals from social networks, too.
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During the event, GM introduced a new set of vehicle application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling developers to build apps for GM vehicles' infotainment systems.
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.
Their strategy is to own the file formats, programming interfaces, communications architecture, development tools and tools that connect applications to applications and applications to the operating system.
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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Alsop admits that the pay TV companies are starting to open up programming interfaces, but only for access to their program guides, not to execute programs on their technical platforms.
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.
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.
Wildseed was the creation of Eric Engstrom , a former Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) executive who was one of the principals behind DirectX, a series of programming interfaces widely used to create computer games.
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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In fact, all programming exists at a certain level of abstraction, from machine language on up to preference settings in consumer user interfaces.
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