Eugene Xiong is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF products and services. The way software is developed and functions has changed dramatically in ...

APIs connect. A fundamental part of the new neural network, fabric and interlaced composition of the cloud and the modem web, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become the linchpins ...

If APIs enable cloud computing, what happens when it comes to portability? Will anyone voluntarily let me off of their cloud? We need standards to support functions such as portability. Dave Rosenberg ...

It could be argued that the contemporary world of the web is built on application programming interfaces (APIs) – or, more specifically, web APIs that allow a web application to access services and ...

With cloud usage on the rise, various cloud application programming interfaces (APIs) are emerging to connect end-users to databases via mobile or desk-based web interfaces. There is no standard way ...

An application programming interface (API) is software that acts as an intermediary between two programs. APIs make it easy for apps to exchange information, data, pictures, and more. APIs also let ...

Some people consider Amazon's APIs to be the de facto cloud computing API standard. I don't agree for several reasons--not the least of which is that it's too early for cloud standards in the first ...