Todd R. Weiss

New Google Glass units will include a solid performance upgrade as they are bumped up to 2GB of internal RAM, doubling the previous 1GB of RAM that has been built into Glass since their beta debut in April 2013. The RAM upgrade is one of several improvements for Glass that were unveiled in a June […]

Encouraging Google app developers to get their work out into the marketplace so they can make sales to consumers and businesses and tap more deeply into the Android and Google ecosystems is a key goal of the Google I/O 2014 developers conference, which opens today in San Francisco. To encourage and assist developers with that […]

Google’s Nest Labs is opening its APIs to other companies—including Mercedes-Benz, Logitech and Whirlpool—so they can work with Nest on improving a wide range of consumer products inside and outside the home for energy savings and other benefits. The APIs are being made available through the Nest Developer Program, which will allow more than 5,000 […]

Google Glass for the first time is available for sale to beta Glass Explorers in the United Kingdom, now that Google has expanded sales of the head-mounted computers to another nation outside of the United States. The launch of the still-beta Glass devices in the U.K. was announced June 23 in a post on the […]

Google is now jumping into the world of domain-name registration with a new Google Domains initiative that the company hopes will bring it even closer to its customers as it serves them in different ways, from domain names to advertising and more. Google Domains was unveiled June 23 in a post on the Google Business […]

Kicking off on June 25, the annual two-day Google I/O developers conference gets under way this week in San Francisco with a full schedule of events, announcements, seminars, training sessions and much more to help Google developers add to their skills and product-building tool boxes. The theme for this year’s I/O conference is all about […]

Five months after being acquired by Google in January, Nest Labs is now purchasing in-home video monitoring vendor Dropcam to extend its high-tech services in the connected homes of its customers. The acquisition of Dropcam for $555 million was announced by Matt Rogers, Nest founder and head of engineering, in a company blog post June […]

Google will debut its plans for a new health data tracking service called “Google Fit” at the upcoming Google I/O developers conference as part of its recent push into high-tech wearables. The rumored Google Fit strategy, which was first reported by Forbes earlier this month, calls for Google to “aggregate data through open APIs, instruction […]

Google is experimenting with a new method to drastically speed up the transfer of large datasets on the company’s cloud storage platform. The process, called Online Cloud Import for Google Cloud Storage, is now in limited preview mode for selected customers to use and test as the system is refined. The new data importing tool […]

Google has announced the names of 38 graduate students from around the world who have been selected as the winners of the 2014 Google Ph.D. Fellowships. The new Fellows were announced in a June 18 post by David Harper of the Google research programs team, on the Google Research Blog. “Nurturing and maintaining strong relations […]

Brazil Celebrates Soccer’s World Cup by Painting Its Streets By Todd R. Weiss Natal, Brazil With colorful streamers above and painted flags and other designs laid out over the asphalt, Rua Cafe Filho is a bright and decorative street in Natal, Brazil. Rio Colors In the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pereira Nunes is […]

Google is committing $50 million over the next three years to help encourage more young girls to join the field of IT and write computer code as part of the nascent Made with Code initiative. The new group, which also includes partners such as Chelsea Clinton, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts of the USA, Mindy Kaling, […]