Todd R. Weiss

Google’s DoubleClick unit has just opened a new online training center, Publisher University, to help DoubleClick users stay up to date with the frequent upgrades that bring new features to the digital advertising platform. The new training resource was unveiled by Marcus Jacobs, a DoubleClick technical trainer, in a July 1 post on the DoubleClick […]

Google has purchased music streaming vendor Songza for an undisclosed price as Google continues to look for ways to increase the competition with Apple and others for the music dollars of online users. The acquisition of Songza was announced July 1 in a post on the Google Play Google+ page. “Exciting news today—we’re thrilled to […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Google involving the company’s Street View data collection initiatives in the past few years, meaning that Google will now likely go to trial as a defendant in connection with several privacy-infringement lawsuits that have been filed against it. The high court’s decision not to hear the […]

Google is cutting out its Quickoffice document-conversion application and its 10-year-old Orkut social media platform as part of the company’s efforts to constantly slim down its product offerings in favor or more popular services. The Quickoffice news came in a June 25 post on the Google Apps Blog, which announced the removal of the Quickoffice […]

With the FIFA World Cup 2014 fully involved in the Round of 16 sudden-death playoffs, Google Search continues to be inundated with search requests connected with the lively and exciting tournament matches being held in Brazil. So far, the most searched for players are Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar, according to Jenise Araujo, a […]

Google just came up with one of the craziest things that it’s unveiled since the driver-less car. If that isn’t different enough, Google now has published plans and an app that will allow a smartphone user to build a small, simple virtual-reality viewer for their phone that they can then use to view various Google […]

Google has been using, improving and boosting its Knowledge Graph search services for several years to show users how information can be linked together in graphics form to help find desired results. Now it is again pushing forward in the graph database world through the open-source release of Cayley, which will be used in the […]

Google Street View Explores the Beauty of Greece By Todd R. Weiss Old Town of Corfu Located northwest of the Greek mainland, the island of Corfu features lovely architecture and a rich history. Here is a view of Old Town in the town of Corfu, on the east side of the island. Corfu by Night […]

For Google Docs users, it has always required an extra step or two to convert a Microsoft Office file into a usable format when reading or editing it with Google Docs or Apps. That little annoyance, however, is now a thing of the past. Starting with Google’s latest update to Google Docs, both the mobile […]

Android developers are getting their first look at the future with the new Android L Developer Preview edition of the mobile device operating system, which was unveiled by Google on June 25 at the Google I/O 2014 developers conference. The early preview version provides developers and users with glimpses of the evolution of Android as […]

The Google Cloud Platform announcements made at the Google I/O 2014 developers conference include a raft of new tools and services aimed at helping with data handling, application development and more. One of the key tools unveiled so far is Google Cloud Dataflow, which is seen by Google as a successor to the popular MapReduce […]

Google Maps apps will be one of the many topics at this week’s Google I/O 2014 developers conference in San Francisco, and to prepare attendees and online participants, the Google Maps team put together a primer with a schedule of some intriguing Maps sessions being held at the event. “The team has been working hard […]