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Real-Time Exchange API – What Is Real-Time Exchange?

What Is Real-Time Exchange? Products and services are increasingly being accessed and purchased via the Internet. Living in a global village, if we have an online store, many of our customers would most likely be from different countries and want to use a foreign currency. If we want to give them a wonderful user experience and boost their chances of buying our goods and returning to the site, we…
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Quotes – What Are Quotes?

What Are Currency Quotes? In foreign exchange terms, a pair of currencies are quoted against each other.  The base is the first listed currency in a currency pair, whereas the quote is the second listed currency, the benchmark.  Currency pairs are intended to be compared…
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Public IP Address - What is Public IP Address?

What is Public IP Address? You are likely aware that an IP address is a number in the format aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd. It is this IP address that devices use to communicate with other devices over the Internet. Thus, public IP addresses are those permanent/unique IP addresses…
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Private IP Address – What Is a Private IP Address?

A private IP address is a non-routable address of your device assigned by the network router. Every device connected to the same network has a private IP or network address. An IP address allows devices connected over the same network to communicate.  What Is a Private IP Address? Private IP addresses allow the connected device to communicate without connecting with the Internet.  An IP address…
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Ping - What is Ping?

What is Ping? Ping is a command-line application that checks if a networked device is accessible and is available on practically any operating system with network connectivity.  It delivers a request to a particular device via the network.  The machine pinged back to the…
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Parameters– What Is Parameter?

What is Parameter?  A parameter is a variable used in computer programming to refer to one of the pieces of data presented as an “input” to a procedure.  These are the values of the arguments (also known as actual arguments or actual parameters) that will be…
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Multiple Location – What Is Multiple Location

What are multiple locations? Multiple Locations uses digital media to locate something, typically on a map-like interface.  With the development of Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing Maps, and a slew of other applications over the last decade, we’ve seen some significant advancements in geolocation and virtual mapping. Multiple Locations allow users to receive all forms of information in…
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Metadata

What is metadata?  Metadata is a set of information that helps identify datasets, providing details and context to describe that particular data better.  It is an integral part of online content and data management which helps people select specific keywords when searching…
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JSONP Callbacks – What Is a JSONP Callback?

JSON with Padding, or JSONP for short, is a technique that allows developers to get around browsers' same-origin policies by exploiting the nature of the <script> element.  The policy prohibits reading any responses made by websites with origins other than those…
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JSON - What is JSON?

What exactly is a JSON? JSON “JavaScript Object Notation” is text-based data exchange standard.  It’s a set of key-value pairs in which the key must be of the string type and the value can be of all the ones that follow: Number  String  Boolean  Array  Object  null JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is an acronym for JavaScript Object Notation.  It was created to exchange data in…
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