Google this week began offering an alpha version of Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript, which provides access to HTTP-based APIs on the Web, as well as to many of Google’s public APIs.

Google just made the lives of third-party calendar developers much easier. Rather than having to constantly poll Google Calendar servers for updates, the Calendar API now supports push notifications.

Instead of trying to set up everything manually in a cron job, he created a short and easy-to-modify JavaScript script to keep track of events on a Google Calendar.

In the latest teardown for the Google Calendar app, version 5.5.9, it appears as though the app is to get snoozing reminders once again.

Google Calendar will be losing a few features, Google Sync will be axed (on the consumer side), as will Google Calendar Sync, SyncML, the Issue Tracker Data API, and the Punchd app.

One Calendar is an API that wraps around commonly used calendars, such as Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange, and was developed by the team behind the One Diary app.

Google has made a small change to the Google Calendar API that nonetheless could make a huge difference for developers and users. The Calendar API now supports push notifications - alerts sent ...

This new feature, found in Google Calendar's settings, aims to allow users to prevent third-party apps from viewing their Google Calendar events, even if those apps have general calendar access.