“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

You might not see them, but these application programming interfaces are the hidden connectors that make a lot of the digital ...

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A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...

Titanium, the cross-platform mobile development framework from Appcelerator Inc., has gone to all-JavaScript APIs, so coders no longer need to write OS-specific modules in Java or Objective-C to fill ...