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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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