API - News, Features, and Slideshows

• CASA to kill ‘Can I fly there?’ drone app, offer API

  ​The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is decommissioning its ‘Can I Fly There?’ drone safety app after two years.

• Pivotal CIO sees big promise for IT industry with open banking initiative

  Pivotal's newly-appointed CIO of APJ, Shaun Norris, said Australia’s open banking initiative - set to take effect July 2019 - will not only bring competition and innovation to financial services but will also boost the ICT sector.

• CA’s internal ‘Shark Tank’ backs Aussie research based IoT virtualisation start-up

  It can be difficult for big companies to remain innovative. Particularly 11,000 employee, $19 billion-valued, 42 year old companies like CA Technologies.

• Autogrow API plus Amazon Alexa creates 'world first talking AgTech system'

  ​New Zealand agtech company Autogrow has launched what it claims to be the ‘first ever talking automated growing system’.

• NAB’s UBank rolls out personal finance management app

  NAB’s digital banking brand UBank has launched a fitness tracker inspired, in-app tool to help users save and spend within their budget.

• ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool

  The tried-and-true enterprise service bus--long the foundation of now-dated service oriented architecture deployments--is back in style thanks to the increasing need to integrate disparate applications. The secret to ESB's future success, some say, is a close tie to API management tools.

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