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Microsoft launches YouTube app, Google demands it taken down

Microsoft launches YouTube app, Google demands it taken down
  • Posted May 16, 2013, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
  • Google yesterday issued a cease-and-desist letter to Microsoft, demanding Redmond pull its YouTube app from the Windows Phone Store. The app has been available for over a week; however, it violates YouTube's API usage terms. Google says Microsoft has until…

Netflix shutters third party app platform, won't affect existing apps

Netflix shutters third party app platform, won
  • Posted March 11, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Netflix recently announced plans to shutter their public API program. The streaming media company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson said in a blog post that the changes are designed to allow them to focus their API efforts on supporting products…

Twitter's grip tightens with new API, upsets some devs

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  • Posted August 17, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Twitter product manager Michael Sippey announced that Twitter's next API revision is expected to launch in "the coming weeks". An API, or "application programming interface", is a framework by which developers are granted the ability to access certain features, data…

Google optimizes Chrome for Retina display, adds new API support

Google optimizes Chrome for Retina display, adds new API support
  • Posted August 1, 2012, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Google’s latest stable release of Chrome now supports Apple’s new high resolution screen on the MacBook Pro with Retina display. In addition to supporting the 2,880 x 1,800 resolution (220 pixels per inch) panel, Google has added a few other…

Google's URL Shortener gets an API

  • Posted January 12, 2011, 12:44 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
  • Goo.gl, Google's fast URL shortener, has received an API that allows developers to add it to their own applications. Up until now, Google didn't offer an API for the tool, so building it into third-party apps has not been an…

Apple quietly kills jailbreak detection API in iOS

Apple quietly kills jailbreak detection API in iOS
  • Posted December 11, 2010, 6:19 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • Less than six months after introducing it, Apple has quietly disabled its jailbreak detection API in iOS. The programming interface was used by developers to detect whether or not an iOS device had been jailbroken, according to Network World. The…

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