Todd R. Weiss

The remarkable sites and history of Greece are now captured in Google Street View images, following several years of opposition from the Greek government due to privacy concerns. The first-time images of the spectacular beauty of Greece via Street View were announced by Dionisis Kolokotsas, the public policy and government relations manager for the project […]

Google is the focus of a new antitrust complaint filed by Portugal-based app store vendor Aptoide. The complaint comes on the heels of other existing antitrust matters plaguing the search giant in Europe. Paulo Trezentos, the CEO of Aptoide, confirmed the June 16 filing of the complaint with the European Commission, the competition arm of […]

Google has been employing plenty of interns since it began its operations in 1998, and now the search giant wants to let people know just what those interns are doing as they do their work for Google. To help decipher some of the many intern opportunities at Google, Maggie Hohlfeld of the university programs team […]

Google’s Chromecast dongle can now be used to display online coursework from Lynda.com, giving online learners more screen real estate for their lessons. The new Lynda.com feature was announced by the online learning company on June 16, along with an updated iOS app for Lynda.com that integrates more fully with the changes in iOS 7. […]

Google’s Project Loon has reached several key milestones in testing being done in Brazil as the innovative Loon experiment moves forward to deliver affordable high-speed Internet access to users in remote locations using connections made through high-altitude balloons. One of the first successes is the connection of a school on the rural outskirts of the […]

Google’s 2-month-old Glass at Work project now has its first five development partners, who are working on building work-related Glass applications that could interest businesses to bring Glass into their operations. The first five Glass at Work development partners—APX, Augmedix, CrowdOptic, GuidiGo and Wearable Intelligence—were announced June 16 in a post on the Google Glass […]

Google’s new Google Wallet Instant Buy API now makes it easier for mobile iOS users to pay for online purchases using their Google Wallet account without having to key in all their account details each time. The first-time availability to developers of the new iOS version of the Instant Buy API was announced by Justin […]

Starbucks has signed on with Duracell Powermat to install wireless charging equipment for mobile phones, tablets and other devices in its coffee shops over the next year, but one shortcoming of the effort is that the systems won’t work with all of the devices being used by consumers today. The wireless charging initiative was unveiled […]

Google has unveiled its new Google I/O 2014 app for Android to help participants prepare for the company’s major developer conference, which kicks off on June 25 for two days in San Francisco. The availability of the app on Google Play was announced June 12 by Mónica Bagagem of the Google developer marketing team and […]

Tour the 12 World Cup 2014 Stadiums in Brazil With Google Street View by Todd R. Weiss São Paulo In Arena de São Paulo (Arena Corinthians) in São Paulo, some 65,000 people packed in to watch the opening ceremonies of this year’s World Cup. It is also the venue of the opening match, three group […]

After 15 years of collecting DNA data about autism, the group Autism Speaks has brought together a huge amount of data about some 12,000 people affected by autism. Now it is uploading about 100TB of that data to the Google Cloud Platform, where for the first time it can be stored in one place and […]

The stable Version 35 of Google’s Chrome Web browser, which was launched in late May, just received several maintenance fixes and stability improvements as part of Google’s normal update regimen. Also receiving maintenance updates are the latest Version 35 releases of Chrome OS and Chrome Beta for Android. The Chrome 35 stable channel update to […]