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iPhone SDK 2.2 Contains Undocumented TV-Out API

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
04:03 GMT

Live Search Project Silk Road

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
10:31 GMT

Embed Virtual Earth Content into Websites

A new application programming interface from Multimap (a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary) is designed to streamline the process of embedding Virtual Earth content into third-party websites. The Redmond company acquired Multimap in December 2007, and the immediate integration of the online mapping service focused o...

17 October 2008
07:17 GMT

Windows 7 Context-Aware Applications

According to Microsoft, Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, will be designed to support context-aware applications. The Redmond giant is even cooking an application programming interface to enable the development of context-aware programs for the next iteration of Windows. At the same time, the company is...

26 September 2008
12:05 GMT

A Taste of Windows 7 Details

 With the availability of Windows 7 pre-Beta confirmed for late October 2008, Microsoft has also delivered additional details related to the agenda of the Professional Developer Conference 2008 in Las Vegas. Between October 27-30, the Los Angeles Convention Center will host no less than 22 sessions focused on th...

25 September 2008
13:04 GMT

The Evolution of Windows 7 User Interface(s) - New Code Runtime and API

Windows 7 will feature not only a redesigned GUI, but also new user interface guidelines, a fresh API along with an interface component, but also a native code runtime and the ability to use markup in order to develop UIs. Even as early as the first public demonstration of Windows 7, at the end of May 2008, and earli...

12 September 2008
04:59 GMT

Microsoft Bridges Location Data Websites with Navigation Devices

Microsoft is bridging the gap between Websites delivering location information and GPS navigation devices via MSN Direct. In this regard, the Redmond giant announced the introduction of a new application programming interface designed to permit website visitors the transition of a variety of data onto their GPS produ...

29 July 2008
10:40 GMT

Bad News for Intel: DirectX 11 Doesn't Do Ray Tracing

As some of you already know by now, Microsoft will introduce DirectX 11 as its next-generation graphics API. This means that the DirectX 10.1 API will probably end up as a footnote in Microsoft's history and AMD's HD 3xxx and HD 4xxx will be the only series of cards to support it.As we informed you yesterda...

10 July 2008
09:41 GMT

Beyond DirectX 10.1, Get Ready for a DirectX 11 Feast on July 22-23, 2008

By the end of this month, Microsoft will give not just a taste of the evolution of its graphics technology by an entire DirectX 11 feast. While so far the Redmond giant has served nothing but crumbs of the successor of DirectX 10.1, the situation will change on July 22-23, and the GameFest 2008 Microsoft Game Techno...

9 July 2008
13:21 GMT

Apple Quietly Rolls out iPhone SDK Beta 7

Trying to get ahead of its own website (with the WWDC and all, it's understandable), for the last few hours, Apple has been trying to decide which Beta build of the iPhone SDK to offer up for grabs. Luckily, eagle-eyed work mates of mine have grabbed the seventh beta of the iPhone SDK just in the neck of time, w...

10 June 2008
11:14 GMT

Health API Is Available to Developers

In the past, we have seen Google open its resources to developers for a number of its products. It appears that another, recently released, product has been given the green light in offering API support to developers. Google Health, which was officially released during a press event held at the company's Mountai...

21 May 2008
09:07 GMT

Google Syncs Calendar with MS Outlook and Adds API for Contacts

The Mountain View-based company has it good, judging from the requests it has pouring in. People have long asked Google to synchronize its Calendar service with mobile devices and Outlook, and after a pretty long period of time it did just that. First came syncing with Blackberry phones, but today the proverbial oliv...

6 March 2008
16:31 GMT

Jerry Yang Proves Why Yahoo! Should Be the Starting Point for the Future

Jerry Yang came to the helm of Yahoo with a clear idea of what he should accomplish and the time he has for the job. He never kept it a secret, he wanted to turn Yahoo! into the starting point for web surfers everywhere, the portal of choice for everyone, no matter if young or old. His plan slowly began unfolding, fi...

8 January 2008
13:06 GMT

How About Some Twitter?

In case you're not all that familiar with Twitter, it's a service that allows the communication between friends, family, co-workers etc., through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to just one simple question: "What are you doing?"It might sound a bit weird to constantly update your status every time y...

22 November 2007
03:03 GMT

Get Your Own Windows Live Messenger IM Control and Presence API

There is a veritable fiesta of Windows Live Messenger release under the next generation of Windows Live brand umbrella. First off Microsoft just introduced the final version of Windows Live Messenger 8.5, its variant of the instant messenger client tailor fitted on the Windows Aero graphical user interface of Window...

8 November 2007
07:29 GMT

The Platform That Will Kill Windows Vista

Forget about Windows Vista! In fact, Microsoft had better not even make Windows Seven, Vista's 32-bit and 64-bit successor planned for 2010. Microsoft's latest operating system will not survive to a new platform being built out of Rich Interactive Applications. And no, this is not about Linux or Mac OS X. T...

6 August 2007
11:48 GMT

Is This The First Version of The Google Antivirus?!

The Mountain View company introduced Safe Browsing API that might represent the first step for a powerful security solution powered by Google than can improve the online security of the users. Basically, it is only a testing API that is based on a database provided by Google and containing valuable information about ...

19 June 2007
16:06 GMT

One More Google Bar for Your Page

Today, Google revealed one more interactive bar meant to be added on the users' pages, displaying useful information about other related websites. The Blog Bar represents a simple add-on for your site able to show the latest posts published on a certain type of blogs selected by your need. Although it might look...

16 March 2007
04:10 GMT


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