Todd R. Weiss

Google Wallet app users can now add their gift card balances from a growing pool of merchants to their Google Wallet accounts, making it possible to make purchases without having to physically have their gift cards with them. The new feature and several other helpful app updates were announced by Glenn Thrope, the product manager […]

Android app basics is the theme of a new online class Google is offering to help teach more developers about how they can create and improve their apps for the popular mobile operating system. The new course, “Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals,” which offers step-by-step training to build an Android app as well as best […]

Google has announced a new “Project Zero” initiative to directly battle targeted attacks that are made against Internet users in an effort to make the Web safer for the public. The project, which will fight things such as zero-day attacks, which are attacks on code where serious security vulnerabilities have not yet been found or […]

Google Search launched a service that will alert mobile device users when they find a Website that won’t be fully compatible with their devices so they can learn why the sites they are seeking aren’t working properly. The new alerts, which are showing up in brief text notices in Google Search, are being created by […]

Drug maker Novartis has licensed Google’s “smart lens” technologies with the idea of building on Google’s past work in developing special contact lenses with built-in sensors to someday help diabetes patients better monitor their glucose levels. The licensing deal was unveiled July 15 by Novartis’ Alcon eye care division and will allow the company to […]

Google has made it easier for IT users and developers to run their Apache Cassandra database clusters on the Google Compute Engine under a new simplified deployment process. The availability of the new service was unveiled by Brian Lynch, a Google solutions architect, in a July 14 post on the Google Cloud Platform Blog. “If […]

It’s been two months since a May European Union court established rules allowing individuals to request that negative information about them be removed from online searches, but even now, Google is still working to find its way to comply with the law but still keep the Internet relevant. That’s the message of David Drummond, Google’s […]

Google knows that, by tomorrow, new ideas and innovative technology can become old quickly. For the last four years, Google has been using a speeded-up design process it calls “design sprints,” which are aimed at keeping innovations fresh, and now it is planning to share the process with outside developers. The idea of taking design […]

Open-Xchange has revamped the user interface and greatly improved document handling in its OX App Suite, which was unveiled in November 2012 as a central portal where users can work on everything from their corporate email to their Facebook and other social media feeds, Gmail accounts, photos, videos and much more. The company unveiled the […]

Google is targeting $100 million in new venture money in Europe to encourage entrepreneurs there to think about and develop new innovations that can be brought to life with the help of the search giant. The $100 million fund was unveiled by Bill Maris, the managing partner of the company’s Google Ventures arm, in a […]

As part of its focus on constant learning, Google is offering five travel grants to the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference this October, and is also seeking presentation proposals for its own Google Test Automation Conference to be held in Kirkland, Wash. Both opportunities for attendees are part of Google’s ongoing […]

As a proposed settlement of antitrust allegations against Google in the European Union continues to wind its way to eventual conclusion, online restaurant and business review service Yelp has entered its own objections to those of other companies that oppose the settlement proposal as it stands. The opposition of Yelp was reported July 8 in […]