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Verizon Steps Further into the API Business
The tech press often treats Verizon as though it were all “Verizon Wireless,” the marketer of cool devices and monthly data plans. At its center, Verizon is a communications company, and at the heart of modern data communications today is the API.
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Amazon's Gateway Shakes Up the API Economy
What has come to be called the “API economy” is comprised in large measure of services that host customers’ APIs using Amazon EC2 as their cloud platforms, and attaching management services as their value-add.
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Google Loses to Oracle, But You Can Still Use APIs
Google’s petition for appeal last October of a May 2014 Federal Circuit decision in favor of Oracle tried to make its case about more than it truly was: the copyrightability of the use of application programming interfaces.
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If Oracle Wins, Can Your Business Freely Use APIs?
Here’s the problem: Absolutely every component of computer code is intended to be interoperable with something — usually, another such component. And most everyone who has ever composed such code would retain the right to decide what should be done with it, including whether that code is freely given away.
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Is Microsoft Office Fundamentally Changing? #Build2015
This morning at Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference in San Francisco, CEO Satya Nadella announced what he calls a “fundamental change” to the forthcoming Microsoft Office 16.
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You Can't Escape the Long Arm of Conway's Law
You already know about Moore's law and how it describes the miniaturization of chips. You may know about Goodheart's law and how it describes human behavior regarding quantitative metrics. Have you heard about Conway's law and how it is constantly clashing with your efforts to bring customer centricity to
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Appcelerator Eyes Big Fish in Mobile App Dev Space
Appcelerator, a Gartner mobile app developer leader, released a platform today that allegedly solves a pain point for mobile developers: integrating data into mobile apps. The Mountain View, Calif.-based provider released Appcelerator Arrow, a framework for building and running mobile-optimized APIs.
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Have Microservices Rendered SOA Obsolete?
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) was once a topic hot enough to fill its own magazine. In fact, SOA was the first software development methodology to ever successfully pierce the realm of business management. It was an endeavor that had to be undertaken not only with rigor but also with rigidity.
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IBM Buys Denver Startup, Wants to Make Its Supercomputer Even Smarter
IBM has acquired AlchemyAPI, a Denver startup that boasts it makes sense of the world's unstructured data. The company, a pioneer in artificial intelligence-based (AI) text analysis, offers a cloud platform that helps companies analyze text, images and video.
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Red Hat Partnership with 3scale Promises Better API Adoption
An open source software giant is partnering with an API management platform vendor to equip enterprises with better API programs, company officials said. Red Hat, the 22-year-old open source provider with more than 7,000 employees, is joining forces with 3scale, a 6-year-old API management provider with 38 employees.
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Look Who Just Became the Dropbox for Business
Every Enterprise File Sync and Share vendor that is trying to be Dropbox for Business can now take a seat because the actual Dropbox for Business has you beat.
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Building for Office 365? Microsoft has APIs for That #TEE14
Our final dip into the Microsoft TechEd Europe meeting in Barcelona this week comes in the shape of new APIs for Office 365. These will enable developers to create applications that build on and tap into the Office 365 platform.
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Bring Your Workforce Together with Open APIs
A funny thing happened over the last decade or so: Our work networks got really, really big. It wasn’t that long ago that even the most seasoned salesperson’s address book would have maybe a couple hundred entries.
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3 Things to Consider When Migrating to a New Portal
Moving your website to a new portal is comparable to moving into a new home. It takes a lot of time, planning, effort — and always proves harder than you expect. You have to clean up beforehand and make decisions about what you really need to take with you.
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