The World Wide Web Consortium is moving closer to a local Web storage application programming interface, which will make HTML5 Web-based applications much more powerful.

Microsoft: DirectStorage API is finally available on Windows PCs. Here's what it means for you Microsoft's new tool for gaming developers promises to usher in a new era of fast-loading PC games.

The Dropbox Sync API allows apps for iOS and Android to treat files stored on a user's Dropbox account as if they were local, managing syncing, caching, offline access and tracking changes easily ...

The offering is an open source version of Scality’s S3 API and allows developers to code to Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage API on a local machine.