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The developers working on indie hit Minecraft at Mojang have stated that one of the core priorities for the game in the coming months is the creation of a proper APi to support full modding for the game, mainly because the community can create more content than the team that created the title.
Jens Bergensten, known... |
31 January 2012
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Spotify has made the big announcement that it's been building up to and it seems that some of the rumors were, partially correct. Spotify has indeed revealed something related to apps, but it's not what everyone was expecting, an extended API. Rather, Spotify is now enabling third party developers, that it... |
1 December 2011
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Spotify is the best known music streaming service globally and the biggest. But it's still small as a business and it's still struggling to get more people to sign up and especially to pay.So the company is looking at ways of expanding its current service, which offers on demand music streaming to users for... |
25 November 2011
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Since Windows Developer Preview is focused on sparking the app building process for Windows 8, it should be no real surprise that a range of developer resources are available from Microsoft along with Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3).
Early adopters starting to test Windows 8 Developer Preview can also take out for a... |
4 October 2011
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Flickr is expanding the use of its 'subscribe' API, which enables developers to get feeds with Flickr photos based on criteria they choose, by making it real-time and adding a much wider set of photos developers can pull.
"Initially you could only subscribe to photos from your contacts and favorites from... |
22 August 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Will Windows 8 usher in the era of NUI gaming for computers? Windows 7 certainly didn’t manage to do it, but the potential for marrying natural user interfaces with next generation gaming experiences is there, and is bound to become only more comprehensive with Windows vNext. Over the weekend, I could not help... |
30 May 2011
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Google offers a big number of APIs which enable third-party developers to access Google services, products and features. And now it's launching an API which enables developers to discover what Google APIs are available also get more info on them.It's all very 'meta' but it makes sense for some typ... |
10 May 2011
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Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0 allows developers to deliver as much as 300% more performance for their projects compared to the previous set of reference topics delivered for version 6.3 of the Bing Maps AJAX Control. At the start of this month, a number of developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion sat down to dis... |
7 March 2011
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Facebook is blaming a recent security incident that resulted in an unauthorized post showing up on Mark Zuckerberg's official fan page, on a bug in an application programming interface (API).The Facebook CEO's page was taken offline Tuesday evening after someone managed to post an update on it that criticiz... |
27 January 2011
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Apple has quietly disabled the jailbreak detection API in iOS 4.2, leaving device management vendors in awe, according to various reports. The respective API (application programming interface) was present in a bundle of mobile device management (MDM) APIs introduced by Apple in June with iOS 4.0.In a nutshell, the j... |
11 December 2010
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Google has fired the first salvo in what is poised to become a war between web giants, Google and Facebook, over data they don't actually own. The company has made a small update to its API Terms of Service which effectively states that any service trying to import Google contact data via its API will have to of... |
5 November 2010
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Google offers a large number of APIs for its various products and is now revamping several of them, while retiring others. Google is also launching the APIs Console, a central place to manage any of the Google APIs you may use."We’re excited about the opportunities that the new APIs console and this first batch... |
2 November 2010
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Five years have passed since a Chicago-based web developer reversed engineered the source code of a Google embedded map to use it in his project. Since then, Google has opened up its service and launched 5 major versions of its Maps API, the most successful and used API on the web. And, yes, bigger than Twitter'... |
30 June 2010
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The Internet of Things is starting to get more and more recognition, both as a term and as a concept, and for good reason. While the Internet as we know it today is fairly different from the one even a decade earlier, one of the biggest revolutions is still to come. In the not so distant future, every electronic... |
21 June 2010
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A new open source project available from Microsoft is designed to simplify the work for PHP developers looking to leverage Bing search results in their applications. The Bing Search Library for PHP is now available for download from the Redmond company’s open source project repository, CodePlex. According to Ge... |
3 June 2010
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Online payment systems may not sound like the hottest piece of technology, but the market is quickly becoming very interesting. If PayPal’s success is any indication, there’s plenty of money to be made from money. Not that you need to tell MasterCard that. Still, the credit card company is maybe starting ... |
26 May 2010
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Michael Tsai, a Mac software developer, has found that Apple opened some APIs for developers looking to tap into hardware-accelerated video. It is exactly what Adobe wanted, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber signals. Apple’s stance on Flash (a CPU hog) is likely to be unchanged. Having lost one battle with Ap... |
23 April 2010
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Microsoft is diversifying the resources designed to help developers leverage its search/decision engine. The company has made available for download the Bing Application Programming Interface version 2 documentation as a .PDF file. According to the software giant, the move comes as a response to feedback from devs, w... |
15 March 2010
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WaveMarket, one of the global leaders in the location-based and applications industry, has announced that the Veriplace Cloud Location Platform Initiative has received a new and important member, namely T-Mobile USA, Inc. According to the carrier, by joining the Veriplace Location Platform Initiative, it is enabled t... |
12 March 2010
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Google Wave generated a great deal of hype before being made available to a larger number of users last year, but, as more people got to play around with it, the anticipation veined and was replaced mostly by disappointment. Still, the tool has some potential and Google is still working hard on bringing out the best ... |
3 March 2010
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Ever since it was launched, in 2007, ChaCha has stirred the attention of audiences worldwide for being an innovative human-operated search engine. After having shown that the platform is easily adaptable, with the launch of an iPhone App and the support of Twitter integration via @chacha, the release of a ChaCha Fac... |
16 February 2010
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One interesting aspect about the web is that for every successful venture there is a myriad of others that pop up around it. Some are obvious copies, some just try to cash in on someone else's success, but some actually provide a useful service extending the functionality of the original one. This is made easy ... |
30 December 2009
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MySpace may be late to the real-time party, but it's going all out now that it arrived. At the Le Web conference in Paris, the ex-social network and future entertainment hub announced that it’s launching several new APIs for developers including the Real-Time Stream API which will enable third-party services to... |
9 December 2009
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Google Analytics has evolved over the years to become a very powerful tool if used to the full extent of its capabilities. The free tool allows webmasters to get detailed information on the visitors to their websites and how they engage with the content. One of the strengths of the product is the possibility to cust... |
8 December 2009
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This is the second time in less than a week that a developer reaches out to Steve Jobs himself over a rejected iPhone application. However, unlike the developer of the ‘limited’ Kaching app, Pointy Heads Software has already seen its API-infringing app approved after Apple’s CEO gave it a closer loo... |
2 December 2009
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The web seems to be converging on several companies, like Facebook and Google, which are becoming more powerful and increasingly unrivaled. Yet, even these companies can't afford to close off everyone else and have a very healthy ecosystem of companies and services developed around them. Still, there a... |
2 December 2009
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It's hard to make any progress in social networking without opening up the service to outside developers. Even Facebook, arguably the most closed off social network, knows this and has made the most of its Facebook Connect offering. Now LinkedIn is looking to do the same with the announcement that it has finall... |
24 November 2009
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Google Wave has just been rolled out to a lot more users, though many are still waiting for their invites even as those who did get in complain about the service's apparent lack of focus and other shortcomings. Still, the project is very early on in its development and things are bound to change as it evolves an... |
16 October 2009
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The Wolfram Alpha search engine was launched to quite a bit of hype several months ago but the buzz has since dropped considerably along with the traffic numbers. The project is far from completion of course – it is labeled an alpha after all – and the launch was meant only to help the team better test an... |
16 October 2009
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Facebook apps can be fun and sometimes useful. But sometimes they can become extremely annoying especially when they go viral and you start getting flooded with the same one from all of your friends. Of course, you can easily choose to hide all instances of an app never to be bothered by it again, but recently quiz a... |
14 October 2009
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Twitter has been touting the upcoming geolocation feature for a while now. Announced more than a month ago, the feature was set to become live, for developers at least, sometime last week but some issues pushed it back several days. It now appears to be live, despite Twitter not making any actual announcement, with t... |
1 October 2009
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Twitter announced almost a month ago that it would allow users to add geolocation data to their tweets. The feature was initially scheduled to become live yesterday but Twitter decided to push it back as it wasn't quite ready for the prime time. Still, the geolocation data feature should be launched within a few... |
24 September 2009
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Twitter has made another big step towards releasing its upcoming retweet API, by giving users a glimpse at how it will look like plus a more detailed explanation on how it will work. The actual launch is now “close at hand” and some people have already seen the new functionality in action coming from the ... |
19 September 2009
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Digg may be working hard on securing new revenue streams, with the recent Digg Ads for example, but this doesn't fix the bigger problem the social link aggregator is facing, namely that its core business is being replaced by other services, meaning Twitter, with which it can't compete directly without radic... |
7 August 2009
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The iPhone OS 3.1 should come towards users with some very attractive and new features, one of which would be the presence/support of augmented reality applications. The functionality has already been rumored, and we're sure that enthusiasts we'll be happy in case it arrives. According to the LA Times, give... |
27 July 2009
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The live video streaming market, though pretty much in its infancy, is a fiercely competitive one. A number of companies are constantly one-upping each other with new features and related products though the competition so far seems to outweigh actual user interest. Still, this hasn't made a dent in their enthus... |
27 July 2009
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Twitter may not have had its easiest week with the recent hackings and the ensuing media coverage of the leaked documents so it could be forgiven for failing to inform developers about changes in its APIs. Still, some didn't agree, like SociaToo founder Jesse Stay who was rather upset with the lack of communicat... |
20 July 2009
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Apple has recently seeded its developer community with a new build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, revealing in the seed notes that Chinese handwriting recognition has been included for multi-touch trackpads. The people at AppleInsider took a closer look at those notes, signaling that Apple had taken a major step towa... |
12 May 2009
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Security software is among the most problematic when it comes down to compatibility with the latest releases of Windows. Such solutions traditionally need low-level hooks into the operating system in order to deliver protection to end users, and it is this intimate kernel connection that causes incompatibility issues... |
7 May 2009
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Microsoft, together with the Gnomedex conference, is giving developers a chance to win no less than $10,000 for building web applications leveraging the Live Search application programming interface. The contest, dubbed Code for Green, is focused on two types of apps, both equally “green.” The challenge i... |
21 April 2009
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As a part of the April 2009 Virtual Earth API release, Microsoft has updated the Virtual Earth AJAX control. According to the Redmond company, one of the changes involves tailoring the Virtual Earth AJAX control to the latest iteration of IE made available in March 2009, namely Internet Explorer 8. Chris Pendleton, V... |
10 April 2009
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The number of languages officially supported for the Facebook Platform has grown to three with the addition of ActionScript to PHP and JavaScript. Through a collaboration between Adobe and Facebook, web developers will now be able to leverage the Adobe ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API introdu... |
31 March 2009
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Microsoft is opening up its machine translation service to third-party developers. The Redmond company is offering a variety of Live Search Translator Tools designed to enable web content developers to seamlessly integrate translation functionality into their Internet-based applications and websites. “Microsoft... |
23 March 2009
06:58 GMT |
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With Windows 7, Microsoft is looking to provide developers with the necessary resources to build as well as integrate what the company referred to as the Web services and applications of the future. In this regard, the next iteration of the Windows client and server operating system offer extensible and manageable pl... |
2 February 2009
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Microsoft is moving forward with the evolution of its application programming interface for Live Search. In this regard, the Redmond company published this week Live Search version 2.0 Beta resources on MSDN providing developers with everything from general information to specific details such as protocols, SourceTyp... |
30 January 2009
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The Windows Error Reporting (WER) infrastructure is one of the components of Windows that has evolved with the introduction of Windows 7. Designed as a set of event-based feedback technologies, WER can record and subsequently relay to Microsoft information about various software and hardware problems detected by Wind... |
29 January 2009
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It didn't take NVIDIA long to also announce its support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from Khronos Group, following the statement of earlier today from its competitor in Sunnyvale, California, AMD. The graphics chip maker has just announced its full support for OpenCL 1.0, a new compute API th... |
9 December 2008
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As surprising as it may sound, Google itself has broken one of the iPhone Software Development Kit rules with its newly-launched Mobile application for the iPhone. According to research done by two tech-based sites, Google used undocumented APIs in order to have its app accessing the iPhone's proximity sensor. ... |
27 November 2008
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An ars technica report reveals that Apple has included an API in the latest iPhone SDK build that allows video output for connection with TV sets. The feature can be used to divert the video feed to displays / screens other than that of the iPhone. Although the iPhone can already play iTunes content through a TV, "M... |
27 November 2008
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Microsoft has made available for download the new generation of its search engine application programing interface, at PubCon, Las Vegas. This was the stage where the software giant announced Live Search API version 2.0, released in a broad Beta. Aimed at website publishers and web developers, the new Live Search API... |
14 November 2008
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