The Latest News On The API Economy
Searching: No Search Term , Filtered By Article Type: "Review"
Telco APIs Offer Huge Revenue if Carriers Can Handle the Disruption API University
A comprehensive report from Mind Commerce maps telecommunications industry APIs and identifies the business opportunities and challenges ahead.
09-21-2015
Review: REST United Automatically Generates SDKs for REST APIs API University
This is an in-depth product review of REST United SDK Generator, a fairly new online application for automatically generating SDKs for REST APIs.
06-23-2015
7 Package Tracking APIs That Rock
The ProgrammableWeb directory has over 70 package tracking APIs to help educate developers on available shipment tracking options. The APIs contain various features such as package arrival verification, scanning services, price comparison, and more. Click here to learn about 7 of those APIs.
08-26-2014
Review: How CodePen Team PRO Features Stack Up
CodePen is a popular code playground where users can collaborate on coding projects and showcase their work. This is an in-depth review of the CodePen Team PRO account.
08-18-2014
Review: KimonoLabs Lets Users Quickly Turn Website Content into APIs
KimonoLabs lets even non-techies get info from different sources, and create and put multiple services in communication.
08-11-2014
Review: HP IDOL OnDemand APIs Help Organizations Make Sense of Data
HP IDOL OnDemand is a suite of APIs focused on solving overcoming some of the tough challenges of the data boom. Indeed, data is being generated at levels never before seen, and the flow shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down. This data comes from many different sources, and, to make use of it, organizations must be able to effectively tap into--and make effective use of--unstructured text and images. This will enable them to drive a variety of key applications, ranging from business intelligence to analytics to behavior analysis. This is no easy task: The data in question may not be in the format that you want (or need) it in, and it involves text/image processing algorithms combined with natural language processing.
07-15-2014
Review: Track:js Eases Front-end Error Detection
Track:js tracks client-side JavaScript errors in production as well as in development. Hands-on testing shows that Track.js is an intuitive tool for front-end developers.
07-08-2014
Review: FileMaker 13 Enables Powerful Custom Database Solutions with No Programming Required
The latest version FileMaker adds a mechanism for easily extending the venerable database platform for use with browsers and mobile—without the need for Web programming or app development. Based on our tests, Version 13 of FileMaker is a powerful yet simple tool for designing and publishing custom databases that will suit businesses’ specific data management requirements.
05-28-2014
Orchestrate Eases Complex Database Tasks
So, you are an indie developer, or a small to midsize business, without the resources to curate your own complex backend? Enter Orchestrate (formerly known as Orchestrate.io), a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that manages a complex infrastructure of scalable storage and querying engines (NoSQL), each optimized to a particular task or query.
05-28-2014