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    PAX 09: EVE Online: Domi...  Sep 7, 2009
    It's always been thought that the outcome of a battle was more or less settled with the presence of a Titan capital ship, the largest ship in the game, as its doomsday weapon could potentially wipe out an entire fleet ... On the other end of the spectrum, they are introducing fighter-bombers, small ships much like the current fighters but which can destroy capital ships ... All the data that goes into the social network will also have API support, which will be valuable to fansites once they... (IGN PC Games)

    Enterprise sells $150 million of shares  Sep 6, 2009
    From AA+ Rated GE Capital Corp. Not An Offer Of Securities For Sale. Need over 1000 calls-per-minute. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Nokia Looks to Draw App Developers  Sep 5, 2009
    The Finnish mobile giant provides Ovi SDK and Ovi API tools to create applications for the Web as well as its Symbian and Maemo platforms ... Nokia today issued a new set of APIs and an SDK aimed at spurring application development for its smartphones and devices as it embarks on a strategy to transform itself from a hardware maker into a full-fledged mobile services provider ... The world's largest phone maker will also start rolling out mobile APIs, beginning with the Ovi Maps Player API and... (SmallBusinessComputing)

    Asymchem Announces Fall Process Symposium Confirmed List of Speakers  Sep 5, 2009
    TEDA TIANJIN, China, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Asymchem Life Science (Tianjin) Co. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asymchem Laboratories Inc., a leading research-based contract manufacturer of API's and intermediates and Drug Products to the pharmaceutical industry, is pleased to issue the final confirmed list of speakers for the upcoming Fall Symposium in Process Chemistry held in Asymchem Life Science in TEDA Tianjin, P.R. China, from October 17-19, 2009 ... Innovation as the Process Driver... (PR Newswire)

    Article: Avaya AE Services Provide Rapid Telephony Integration with Facebook  Sep 4, 2009
    The Avaya DMCC Dashboard can help you get your DMCC application built and tested sooner and help you to master the DMCC service API.. This DevConnect eBook is your complete guide to the Avaya DMCC Dashboard, a purpose-built tool for learning the Device, Media and Call Control (DMCC) Service API for Avaya Application Enablement Services ... Using the Avaya IP Telephone's Web and Push APIs does not require any proprietary technologies or special servers. (IntranetJournal)

    Athabasca Potash Inc. Shareholders Elect the Alternative Board of Directors  Sep 4, 2009
    "market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-14400", "open" : "1252071005", "close" : "1252094405", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000" ... SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwire - Sept. 3, 2009) - Athabasca Potash Inc. ("API") (TSX: - ) is pleased to announce the election of its alternate nominees for the board of directors ... Dawn Zhou, Bradley V.A. Fettis, Kenneth E.... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)

    Red Hat promotes cloud projects, pans Microsoft and VMware  Sep 4, 2009
    Project Hail offers platform APIs resident in the cloud, Stevens said ... It features a REST API and supports the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV-M) ... "Deltacloud protects your apps from cloud API changes and incompatibilities so you can concentrate on managing cloud instances the way you want," the states. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Google's Colonization of E-Book Devices Continues Apace  Sep 4, 2009
    The Barnes & Noble deal also plants Google's free e-books API (application programming interface) on Plastic Logic's e-book reader, which is slated to launch early next year and will feature an exclusive e-book sourcing deal with B&N.. Google, in fact, seems bent on planting its API on as many non-Kindle e-book readers as possible, which is not good news for Amazon ... At the same time, Google's library of free books serves as a kind of Trojan horse to get its e-book API onto as many devices as... (BusinessWeek)

    Humax Selects Broadcom's DTV and Panel Processor Technology for DVB Televisions  Sep 3, 2009
    An application programming interface (API) is also supported, enabling manufacturers to select from several FRC modes and picture quality settings, such as choosing a specific FRC strength or a special PC mode (frame repeat) for gaming applications. About Broadcom. (PR Newswire)

    Video: Multi-touch Coming to Firefox  Sep 3, 2009
    Mozilla provides further details about the API, and with multi-touch within Firefox. Are you excited by the hands-on future of browsing, or do more traditional methods click with you. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    COOLERBOOKS.com Announces Google Partnership  Sep 2, 2009
    We believe in an open platform for accessing and reading books, we're always looking for more ways to expand access to books (Canada Newswire)

    Hackers Attack Facebook, Steal Info  Sep 2, 2009
    "The problem is surely with Facebook's internal systems and application API for not correctly ascertaining whether it was an internal user request or coming from the outside world," Cluley said. Though Zilberman noted that Facebook has plugged the specific CSRF hole that he described in detail, he suggested that other, similar holes may yet exist on Facebook and other sites. (eSecurityPlanet)

    Savvis Previews Project Spirit - Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure Platform Powering Virtual Private Data Centers for the Enterprise  Sep 1, 2009
    Runs on Cisco Nexus 5000, 7000 and Nexus 1000V Switches and VMware vSphere(TM) 4 and VMware VMsafe API ... Greater scale - Savvis' VPDC, powered by the new cloud compute platform, will feature increased capacity to flex to higher levels more rapidly than current offerings ... The provides a new generation of virtualized data center networking, helping enable virtual machines and network connectivity to be seamlessly linked and moved at the touch of a button while the VMware VMsafe API, included... (PR Newswire)

    Regional Roundup  Aug 30, 2009
    API scores are released twice a year to rank schools and track growth at a statewide level ... Last year, students at University Public School earned a 887 base API score one of the highest in Lodi Unified School District and were aiming for a 900 this year ... API scores will be made public for all schools on Thursday. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)

    Facebook Tweaks Privacy Policy in Face of Inquiry  Aug 29, 2009
    Facebook said it will also modify its API so that applications will need to give users more detailed controls over what information they share. RELATED ARTICLES. (SmallBusinessComputing)

    OneRiot Announces $7 Million Funding  Aug 28, 2009
    Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Appian Ventures and Spark Capital Invest in OneRiot Realtime Web Search ... and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- OneRiot, the realtime search engine, today announced that it has secured $7 million in Series C funding led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Spark Capital, the company's existing venture capital firms ... com and to third parties who utilize OneRiot's Search API. The company will use proceeds of this funding to further enhance... (PR Newswire)

    No tweet charity: Twitter considers charging users  Aug 27, 2009
    In fresh comments apparently aimed at the venture capital community, which has invested tens of millions of dollars in Twitter, Stone told of the potential for premium services such as pulling data from the sea of tweets ... Outside software developers who create applications for Twitter will be able to experiment with the location API prior to the feature being added to the microblogging service. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Researcher: Twitter fails to fix cross-site scripting bug  Aug 27, 2009
    The cross-site scripting bug in Twitter allows hackers to insert malicious JavaScript into tweets simply by adding code to a field of an API (application programming interface) used by third-party Twitter application developers. Developers use the API to direct Twitter users to their Web sites by embedding links in tweets created with their software. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Climate Bill Could Hurt U.S. Refining Industry: Study  Aug 25, 2009
    consultancy EnSys Energy for API, the U.S. oil industry's main trade group ... "Equity is really what we're asking for," said API President Jack Gerard in a phone interview ... Last week, API and other groups kicked off a 19-state campaign to stir opposition against the climate bill in energy- and manufacturing-intensive heartland states. (SmartMoney)

    Twitter Now Knows Where You Are  Aug 24, 2009
    Initially, Twitter will release to its external developers a preview of a new geolocation API (application programming interface), which will let developers attach geographic metadata to "tweets," the company Thursday in a blog post ... Until now, location information has been available to external developers, but via a "rudimentary" API that uses the location information Twitter users add to their profile ... "We are also really excited about a unique facet of this release in that it will be... (BusinessWeek)

    Data-breach indictments, Google book fight  Aug 22, 2009
    to add geolocation functionality: While we're not so keen on the idea of everyone knowing where we are, we know a lot of other Twitter users will herald the arrival of a new geolocation API (application programming interface), which the company will release as a preview to external developers. The API will attach geographic metadata to Twitter messages. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Intel acquires multicore software vendor  Aug 22, 2009
    Santa Clara, Ca. - Intel has acquired RapidMind, a provider of software tools that allow development of C++ code for use on multiple processors ... RapidMind founders Stefanus Du Toit and Michael McCool have joined Intel, as have their engineering and marketing teams in what to all intents and purposes was a very friendly take-over ... RapidMind was founded five years ago to commercialize a University of Waterloo programming system called Sh. (EETimes)

    Twitter helps users track tweets by location  Aug 22, 2009
    In a blog post yesterday, said the company is working on a new API designed to enable developers to add the ability to include the latitude and longitude of a Twitterer's location. The API will require that users activate the feature ... "Twitter platform developers have been doing innovative work with location for some time despite having access to only a rudimentary level of API support," wrote Stone. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Twitter to show whereabouts of tweeters  Aug 21, 2009
    " Outside software developers who create applications for Twitter will be able to experiment with the location API prior to the feature being added to the microblogging service. Twitter users interested in letting their whereabouts be known will need to activate the new feature, which will be "off" as a default setting. Exact location data will not be stored for extended periods, according to Twitter. "If people do opt-in to sharing location on a tweet-by-tweet basis, compelling context will be... (Channelnewsasia.com)

    Lonza Group AG Submits Non-binding Proposal to Acquire All Patheon Inc. Restricted Voting Shares for US$3.55 per Share, Significantly Above Existing Bid by JLL  Aug 21, 2009
    55 per Share, Significantly Above Existing Bid by JLL. An acquisition of Patheon would take us into the complementary activities of finished dosage development and manufacturing for both small molecule and biological active ingredients. (Canada Newswire)

    Archiving data to cloud storage: How to choose the right cloud storage provider  Aug 20, 2009
    Are your archiving applications compatible with cloud storage APIs. By default, most archiving applications support standard file system interfaces (CIFS/NFS); many also support APIs for the EMC Centera ... However, archiving data to cloud storage requires them to support new APIs like Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). (Search Storage)

    Arcan Resources Ltd. Announces Second Quarter 2009 and Updates Drilling Results  Aug 20, 2009
    "market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-14400", "open" : "1250775039", "close" : "1250798439", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000" ... 15 Capital expenditures - cash 229 4,062 3,406 13,618 Total assets 145,729 132,263 145,729 132,263 Total liabilities 59,716 45,901 59,716 45,901 Shareholders' equity 86,012 86,362 86,012 86,362 Bank loan 39,627 26,829 39,627 26,829... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)

    Moonlight 2.0 moves to beta phase  Aug 19, 2009
    The Capital Times Sunday 16th August, 12:40:34 PM ... The API implemented by Moonlight 2 ... "Although Microsoft has already released Silverlight 3.0 with new functionality and APIs, it will take some time to be fully adopted, so while we might be behind Microsoft's offering, we still think that this will allow users to access most Silverlight content out there today," de Icaza said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Twitter says latest problems solved  Aug 19, 2009
    The measures the company took to restore the service affected the API (application programming interface) and other functionality that third-party applications need to access Twitter data and services, it said ... If they're not, Twitter wants developers to submit a problem report, along with information like the IP address of the machine making requests to the API. the IP address of the machine they're contacting in the Twitter cluster and the Twitter API URL they're requesting, among other... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Cap-and-Trade Interests Try to Break Through Health Care Clutter  Aug 18, 2009
    The first, taking place in Houston, will feature Houston Astros CEO Drayton McLane as the keynote speaker, according to API spokeswoman Cathy Landry ... The API is hardly on its own in voicing opposition to the House-passed cap and trade legislation. (Roll Call)

    Twitter: Latest Application Platform Problems Solved  Aug 18, 2009
    The Capital Times Sunday 16th August, 12:40:34 PM ... The measures the company took to restore the service affected the API (application programming interface) and other functionality that third-party applications need to access Twitter data and services, it said ... If they're not, Twitter wants developers to submit a problem report, along with information like the IP address of the machine making requests to the API. the IP address of the machine they're contacting in the Twitter cluster and... (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Twitter down on Saturday, external apps to be affected  Aug 16, 2009
    (08-15) 12:14 PDT -- experienced "unexpected" downtime on Saturday, and in order to recover from the problem the company will have to implement measures that affect third-party applications that use the Twitter API. ... A few minutes after 2 p.m., the company announced that the API that external Twitter applications use will be offline as part of the recovery process ... "The first step our operations team must take will likely cause API downtime, especially affecting OAuth. We apologize for the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Counterfeit Spiderman shoes seized in LA  Aug 16, 2009
    Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- State)

    API Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America Again  Aug 15, 2009
    Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine today included Advanced Processing & Imaging (API) on its third annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies ... This is the second year in a row that API has received this distinction ... "API is pleased to be recognized by Inc. for the second year in a row as one of the fastest growing private companies in America," said Mel Rothberg, CEO at Advanced Processing & Imaging. (PR Newswire)

    Microsoft backs long life for IE6  Aug 14, 2009
    "We are passionate because we run a website and something like 10% of our users use IE6, but our web designers and developers have to spend a lot of time debugging for the platform. "The other issue for us is that we have launched an API to let people build applications and while our goal is to make it as easy as possible for people to do this, IE6 is a barrier," Mr Solomon told BBC News. In a blog post in response to such campaigns, the software giant said that while this issue is a simple one... (BBC News -- Technology)

    Java Servlet API 3.0 improves application plugability  Aug 13, 2009
    The Significance of the new Servlet API The servlet API has been one of Java's greatest successes ... 0 API makes use of both features ... 0 For versions of the Servlet API through 2. (Search Webservices)

    FUSD meetings air live on the Internet  Aug 13, 2009
    Livestream Releases APIs and Player Plug-in for Brightcove. Livestream today opened its industry-leading live and linear video streaming platform by releasing several powerful APIs, thus enabling the Livestream service (Free or Premium) to be integrated into in-house or third party online video platforms and players ... The Livestream Player API enables customers, programmers, and web agencies to build their own Livestream powered video players and clip libraries using HTML, Adobe Flash or Adobe... (Fresno Bee -- Local)

    Google Adds Social Capabilities to Personalized Home Page  Aug 13, 2009
    By making iGoogle compatible with the Google-backed OpenSocial API for social applications, developers are now able to add social features to the gadgets built for the personalized home page, Google announced on Wednesday. At launch, users will have access to 19 "social" from Google and third-party developers. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Petrobank Records Second Quarter Net Income of $34.7 Million  Aug 13, 2009
    "market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-14400", "open" : "1250170215", "close" : "1250193615", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000" ... 04 (63) Capital expenditures 144,422 172,356 (16) 317,416 372,626 (15) CBU 38,901 69,711 (44) 108,925 180,200 (40) LABU 93,203 80,637 16 174,763 149,383 17 HBU 12,318 22,008 (44) 33,728 43,043 (22) Total assets 2,421,171 1,826,464 33... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)

    HI 3D Rendering Engine "MascotCapsule(R) eruption" is Adopted for "resident evil 4" for iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch  Aug 10, 2009
    "market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-14400", "open" : "1249911008", "close" : "1249934408", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000" ... A 3D graphics API for embedded devices ... With GE Capital Corporation. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    DDoS Attackers Continue Hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google  Aug 9, 2009
    This means that Twitter will that have allowed it to keep the site up but that also have affected the interaction of third-party applications with the site via its API (application programming interface). "At this point, removing any of those defenses is not an option," Etzel wrote. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Twitter still down for many on BlackBerrys  Aug 8, 2009
    "Due to defensive measures we ve taken against the ongoing denial-of-service attack, some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS," the company wrote in its blog ... Speaking in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, he gave his name as Georgy and said he was a 34-year-old economics lecturer who has been openly critical of Moscow's conduct in the war over the disputed South Ossetiia region of the Caucasus ... His online monicker is a latinised... (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)

    Apple rots, iPhone users revolt  Aug 7, 2009
    If Apple were wise it would offer an API that allows any smartphone to work with iTunes. This will happen eventually, but why not now. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    GSA issues cloud storefront RFQ  Aug 7, 2009
    Trouble tickets should be able to be submitted by application programming interface (API), and all services should be maintained at 99. 95 percent uptime. (FCW.com)

    Twitter Tanks on Thursday Morning  Aug 7, 2009
    Now, a few million dollars of venture capital later, the service is far more stable ... Twitter is unusual in that much of its use comes not through its Web site but through an application programming interface (API) that lets software such as TweetDeck interact with the service ... API access also suffered during the outage. (CBS News)

    Jewish media working together for the future (2)  Aug 6, 2009
    The American Press Institute (API) launched the Newspaper Next transformation project (www ... Andrew B. Davis, president and executive director of API, presented AJPA with approaches to address the issue through analysis, strategic planning, customer service, and other business practices. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Short links, big business  Aug 6, 2009
    im, let outside applications tap their application programming interfaces (API), so one thing they can do is offer full URL preview in their own programs. For instance with TweetDeck, a popular app for organizing tweets, you can see the full URL behind a Bit. (CNN -- International)

    Engine Oil Grades and Classificatio...  Aug 6, 2009
    API Motor Oil Standards, Ratings and There Meaning ... Every can or bottle of engine oil that is used in a vehicles engine should have an (API) service symbol listed ... The API and vehicle manufacturers got together to classify and certify motor oil to meet the vehicle manufacturers standards. (Suite101.com)

    3 Reasons a CIO Should Care About Twitter  Aug 6, 2009
    CIOUpdate columnist Chris Curran of Diamond Management Consulting (CIO Information Network)

    Hands-on: KDE 4.3 delivers a Social Desktop  Aug 6, 2009
    Karlitschek has created an API that allows desktop software to interact with his Web sites, making it possible for applications to dip into the community-oriented social networking features and content that he hosts ... He hopes that his Web APIs will gain cross-desktop acceptance and serve as a generic, vendor-neutral standard that can be implemented by third-party Web services ... He has documented the API, which he calls the Open Collaboration Services (OCS) specification, at the and is... (Ars Technica)

    Will Windows 7 erase the memory of Vista?  Aug 5, 2009
    Mac will never get the lions share unless something very drastic happens like microsoft is told to release all the api and code. We all drive gas cars because thats what's out there and until something drastic happens there we will all still drive gas cars, even tho we could all drive pure electric cars now. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    Twitter Now Blocking Bad URLs  Aug 5, 2009
    Twitter is using Safe Browsing API to check for malicious links, a Google spokesman confirmed Monday ... That's because some of these URL-shorteners use the Google's API themselves ... ly, which is used to post more than half of all Twitter links uses the API to block people from visiting malicious sites, for example. (BusinessWeek)

    Graphics giants roll tools at Siggraph  Aug 5, 2009
    It also has an executive leading the Architecture Review Board at Khronos which is developing extensions for future APIs. "We are listening carefully to developer feedback and will continue to rapidly evolve OpenGL to meet the needs of the industry," said Barthold Lichtenbelt, chair of the OpenGL ARB working group and OpenGL engineering manager at Nvidia ... The tool includes an API for enhancing video playback and encoding. (EETimes)

    Yahoo to Developers: Wait and See  Aug 1, 2009
    BOSS, or Build your Own Search Service, is the API last July who wanted to pipe Yahoo's search infrastructure into their own sites ... Yeh noted that all non-search developer applications would be unaffected by the Microsoft deal, including the APIs that enable developers to build apps for Yahoo Mail, MyYahoo and, soon, the recently redesigned Yahoo home page. (SmallBusinessComputing)

    Lessons from the 'Small Business Web'  Aug 1, 2009
    Using MailChimp's application programming interface, or API a set of tools that lets outside developers write programs that interact with another piece of software BatchBlue gave its clients the e-mail function it couldn't achieve through conventional dealmaking ... But they have all committed to publishing APIs and making their products integrate easily, without locking customers into any one platform ... "The difference between the Small Business Web and just publishing an API is you see... (BusinessWeek)

    Getting started with OpenQRM  Jul 31, 2009
    OpenQRM also provides a single management console and solution to managing all your hosts and comes with a collection of plug-ins and a fully featured API that allows you to integrate to other tools. The advantage of the pluggable architecture is that you only need to install the components you require. (Search Enterprise Linux)

    New VeriCall Edge(R) Connected Multimedia Software Features YouTube Video Playback  Jul 30, 2009
    VeriCall Edge software provides consumer electronics manufacturers a comprehensive embedded software platform for rapidly designing multimedia and real-time voice/video communications functionality into IP-connected devices such as Multimedia Tablets, Video Phones, VoIP intercom systems, Digital Photo Frames, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Netbooks / Smartbooks ... VeriCall Edge provides an API that enables seamless integration of the media player framework to an application. (PR Newswire)

    Oil drops by over $1 per barrel  Jul 29, 2009
    Singapore - US oil prices fell by more than $1 a barrel on Wednesday, extending losses from the retreat the day before, on renewed worries over the US economy after a drop in consumer confidence and bearish API crude data. By 8. (Business Report, South Africa)

    Star Wars: The Old Republic - Exhaustive Q&A  Jul 25, 2009
    Will there be dogfights, capital ships ... IGN: Will the game have an open API. (IGN PC Games)

    GWAVA Releases Retain 1.7 With Free Stubbing Edition  Jul 22, 2009
    7, now available, supports the latest stubbing API in GroupWise 8. With GroupWise 8 and Retain 1. (PR Newswire)

    PCI Synthesis Hires Greg Reid, Affirms Commitment to Innovation  Jul 22, 2009
    Dr. Reid will be responsible for overseeing the company's Research and Development offerings as well as overseeing the technical development of the company's robust pipeline of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API's) ... PCI Synthesis is a custom chemical manufacturer of new chemical entities (NCEs), generic APIs, and other specialty chemical products ... PCI Synthesis offers a turnkey solution for all the steps needed to develop a final API, including process research, process development,... (PR Newswire)

    Assimilate Technology Launches .NET-based FIX Protocol Testing Product  Jul 20, 2009
    API documentation and sample code is also provided to assist developers in rapidly creating their own. NET components for the system. (PR Newswire)

    GE profit drops sharply  Jul 18, 2009
    "Our goal remains to reset our business to ensure our long-term competitiveness,'' Simonelli said. It will look to do better than the second quarter, when GE Transportation received $625 million in total orders, including new equipment, parts and servicing of existing equipment. That dollar figure is down 50 percent from the second quarter of 2008. Breaking the numbers down further, new equipment orders -- primarily locomotives -- were down 71 percent compared to the second quarter of 2008.... (Erie Times-News, PA)

    Resident Evil 5 Goes 3D For The PC  Jul 17, 2009
    capitalized on the improvements made throughout the series with the addition of co-op play that allowed you and a friend to take on the hordes of Kijuju ... According to Capcom, the API of Nvidia's 3D Vision technology was so lightweight that they could easily incorporate it into the whole game with minor tweaks to the code. (IGN PC Games)

    C-SPAN Selects Livestream Premium to Power its Live Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Coverage  Jul 16, 2009
    "market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-14400", "open" : "1247751056", "close" : "1247774456", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000" ... The multi-channel player with refreshing live thumbnails of the streams was developed in two days using the power of the soon-to-be-launched Livestream Player API (application programming interface). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Apple's iPhone and iPod Monopolies Must Go  Jul 16, 2009
    Suppose Apple were required to publish an open API for iTunes and support all models of players and phones. And multiple content vendors. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Open Forum: Jackson's death dominated network news  Jul 15, 2009
    Bakken oil is light sweet with an API density in the high thirties and low sulfur content. Drilling in the Bakken doesn't carry the usual exploration risk of coming up with a dry hole. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)

    Setting up cloud computing with Eucalyptus  Jul 15, 2009
    The major criteria for acceptance of this shift in computing is the potential of rapid large scaling of resources not available in smaller "controlled" environments ... These elements are: application programming interface (API), network, processing cycles (CPU) and storage ... API: The API element is often referred to as the client interface and provides the developer with control of specific elements that are often abstracts (such as Java elements, storage space, etc. (Search Enterprise Linux)

    Acumatica Expands Distribution to Southeast Asia  Jul 14, 2009
    In addition to web-based customization tools, Acumatica includes a robust application programming interface (API) and software development kit (SDK). "Acumatica's SDK allowed us to create a custom online statistics gathering application for our first Acumatica customer, Horwath HTL a provider of hospitality services in Singapore," said Sergey Vereshchagin, CEO of SWsoft Consulting. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Mozilla upgrades Jetpack browser booster  Jul 14, 2009
    Improvements include a revised API for SlideBars, which enable access to information at the side of a browser window ... The SlideBar API in version 0 ... 3, however, is incompatible with the previous API. All SlideBar-based Jetpacks must be updated, Mozilla said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Chrome OS in future, but what does Android offer now?  Jul 11, 2009
    Resources Google's starting page for Android Online developer's guide, API reference, and developer's community blogs. Open Handset Alliance home page. (Search Webservices)

    Yahoo boosts Web data joiner  Jul 9, 2009
    (07-08) 15:27 PDT -- Yahoo isenhancing on Wednesday its Web service API for querying and joining data across any Web source or service on the Web, with the addition of capabilities to write and modify data on Web services. More IDG Headlines. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Oil falls for 6th day on economic doubts  Jul 8, 2009
    Figures from the American Petroleum Institute (API) on Tuesday showed distillate stocks jumping by a much higher-than-expected 3 ... More bearish data came from Japan, where the value of the country's core private-sector machinery orders, a leading indicator of capital spending, hit a record low in May, sending the Nikkei average. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Symantec Outlines Dedupe Strategy  Jul 8, 2009
    Backup Exec 2010 will integrate deduplication (using NetBackup PureDisk technology) into both backup clients and Backup Exec media server and will also add the OpenStorage API to manage third-party deduplication appliances. And NetBackup 7, expected next year, will integrate deduplication into the backup client and NetBackup media server. (EnterpriseStorageForum)

    Will Linux Companies Profit in the Cloud?  Jul 7, 2009
    "We do believe there is considerable value in providing users with an open source system to build their own private clouds that match the de facto standard of Amazon's EC2 API.". Article courtesy of. (Datamation)

    Lotus Notes Export to PDF  Jul 6, 2009
    For application developers: LotusScript API is provided ... Developers can also create server-based agents using the LotusScript API. Agents can be scheduled to produce PDF files unattended. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Mapping Malaysia  Jul 5, 2009
    Not only can they list themselves on Google Maps Malaysia, they can even embed maps from it onto their own website, using a free Javascript-based or Flash-based toolkit called Maps API.. In the website iproperty. (The Star Online, Malaysia)

    SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT  Jul 5, 2009
    By Jayasurya Venugopalan - Published 06/17/2009Learn how to combine the Location API for J2ME and Scalable Vector Graphics to provide navigation for a GPS-enabled mobile device ... Discover where to get the right software APIs and documentation as well as what technologies are supported. (IntranetJournal)

    Athabasca Potash Inc. Announces Annual Meeting Date of September 3, 2009  Jul 4, 2009
    "market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-14400", "open" : "", "close" : "", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000" ... SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwire - July 3, 2009) - Athabasca Potash Inc. ("API" or the "Company") (TSX: - ) announces that its annual meeting of shareholders will be held at the Delta Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at 2:00pm on Thursday,... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)

    netSpray Unveils its eBay Importer Tool Allowing Quick, Secure Transfer of Listings from eBay  Jun 30, 2009
    Unlike other importers in the market, that simply 'spider' a site, netSpray's eBay Importer Tool is built on the eBay Application Programming Interface (API) and consequently provides a range of added benefits ... Michael Taratuta, Co-Founder and VP of Technology at netSpray adds, "Because our Importer Tool is built on eBay's API, our turnover speed is phenomenal. We have multiple channels that can simultaneously pull information from eBay. Meaning, there is no wait involved. Whether a user is... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    US carbon bill likely to hike energy costs  Jun 29, 2009
    The American Petroleum Institute (API) said the bill could cost the average household up to $3 300 by 2020. "That is more than a few postage stamps," API president Jack Gerard said in a slap at legislator Edward Markey, who has compared new energy costs to a postage stamp a day. (Business Report, South Africa)

    Winners and losers emerge in climate bill  Jun 28, 2009
    "That is more than a few postage stamps," API President Jack Gerard said in a slap at Rep ... API has tried to paint the bill as a job killer that would choke off efforts to pull the economy out of recession ... Another big utility that relies on coal, Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke Energy, said the legislation creates regulatory certainty for an industry that spends billions on capital expenditures annually. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)

    Download PHP SDK for Windows Azure  Jun 28, 2009
    PHP SDK for Windows Azure provides access to Windows Azure's storage, computation and management interfaces by abstracting the REST/XML interface Windows Azure provides into a simple PHP API. ... We are excited to show you our initial thinking of the project and an initial API for Windows Azure blob storage. (IntranetJournal)

    New Java Programming Tools Employs Human-centered Design Techniques  Jun 26, 2009
    ScienceDaily (June 25, 2009) Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of options within the application programming interfaces (APIs) that are used to write applications in Java, today's most popular programming language ... The tools Jadeite and Apatite take advantage of human-centered design techniques to significantly reduce the time and guesswork associated with finding the... (Science Daily)

    Citizen Journalism, Web 2.0 Propel Iran's Neda  Jun 25, 2009
    "Twitter is different because it's live and social -- the retweet is the shot heard 'round the world' and because that API lets it survive any dictator's game of whack-a-mole," he wrote. "But it's by no means the final word in digital revolutions. I know we will soon see witnesses and participants to events such as these broadcasting them live from their mobile phones. We will see people organizing with Google Maps. We can't imagine what will come next.". (SmallBusinessComputing)

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