Todd R. Weiss

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on the Normandy coast in France on June 6, 1944, the Google Cultural Institute has created a series of special online exhibits to illustrate the emotions, power and destruction of an epic and successful World War II battle that likely changed the course of the war. […]

Google just added an early alpha version of a new Chrome browser extension that will soon give users the ability to bolster the encryption of their emails while in transit to recipients. The End-to-End extension for Chrome is available to Chrome developers who want to help add more protections to users’ emails while requiring fewer […]

Google Chrome 64-bit versions can now be test-driven by users of 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems now that Google has begun development channels for the new browsers. The Chrome 64-bit strategy was unveiled by Will Harris, a Google software engineer, in a June 3 post on The Chromium Blog. “Today we’re announcing […]

Google Play Games is again working to help game developers find their target markets for their products by adding more demographics-tracking tools to the Google Play Developer Console. Three key new demographics categories that track players’ countries, ages and genders will now be collected in addition to existing demographics data, Ben Frenkel of the Google […]

Google has now added Street View imagery capabilities to the Google Maps Android API v2, which also introduces more controls for developers as they use the API for indoor maps. The new features were detailed by Megan Boundey, product manager for Google Maps mobile SDKs, in a May 27 post on the Google Geo Developers […]

Google is continuing the process of removing support for old Netscape-era APIs from the Chrome Web browser by now removing references to the old Netscape Plug-in APIs (NPAPIs) from its Chrome Web Store. The latest move to remove the old, troublesome code was announced by Justin Schuh, a Google software engineer, in a May 27 […]

Google has made an online form and process available for people in the European Union who want to have information about them removed from searches. The move complies with a recent court order in the EU that search providers such as Google must have such a process to “forget” things about people if they make […]

Google’s DoubleClick unit is offering a detailed new online training series that highlights its latest Dynamic Creative tools for digital marketers in a group of informational Webinars that start on June 3. “To help our agency partners stay up-to-date on the latest DoubleClick Dynamic Creative tools, we’re launching new training resources to teach you how […]

Metropolitan Museum of Art Unveils Free Image Access to Online Works By Todd R. Weiss Manet’s “Boating” French painter Edouard Manet painted this couple on a sailboat in 1874 on the Seine near Argenteuil, France, in this oil painting on canvas, titled “Boating.” It was donated to the Met by Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer in […]

After resisting the idea for years, Google has published the results of its workforce diversity tallies, and the picture is not as bright as the search giant would like it to be—70 percent of Google workers are men, while 61 percent of workers are white. Only 2 percent of Google’s workers are black, and only […]

When WITI (Women in Technology Inc.) was created in 1989, there was no online social media and the Internet had not yet evolved into a worldwide tool for businesses, citizens, organizations and governments. The lack of such tools back then was one of the reasons that WITI was formed by its founder, Carolyn Leighton—so that […]

Google’s $35 Chromecast television devices are now available in Asia, Australia and more countries in Europe as Google expands the reach of the video-streaming dongles to more users around the world. The expanded availability of Chromecast devices was announced by Suveer Kothari, director of Chromecast business development, in a May 28 post on the Google […]