Todd R. Weiss

Google’s Chrome browser has just adopted a new strategy to fight malicious attacks. Chrome extensions can now only be installed from the Chrome Web Store rather than from any website. The change, which is being done to prevent malware attacks through rogue extensions, was unveiled by Erik Kay, engineering director of Google Chrome, in a […]

Google is taking another huge step in its pursuit of developing self-driving cars by choosing to build its next generations of the vehicles on its own, rather than using modified cars from existing automakers. The self-driving vehicle project was launched by Google in 2010 as a research effort to see how such vehicles could be […]

Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe are waiting to find out if a California judge will approve a $324.5 million settlement agreement that they reached in April with plaintiffs who claimed that the companies had illegally conspired to control salaries by not recruiting employees who worked for rival companies. The proposed settlement will be the subject […]

Google is advising Web developers to double-check the performance of their Web pages after Google made some recent changes to its page indexing and page rendering systems involving JavaScript. The issue was raised by Google software engineers Erik Hendriks and Michael Xu and Google Webmaster trends analyst Kazushi Nagayama in a May 23 post on […]

Google Fiber wants users to know that it is continuously working hard to ensure that its customers are getting the best service possible, making constant adjustments and configuring to keep bothersome video buffering to a minimum. Jeffrey Burgan, Google Fiber’s director of network engineering, dove into the issue of buffering and how Google is working […]

Google’s DoubleClick unit will hold its annual online DoubleClick event on June 4 for advertising executives and digital marketers, including guest speaker Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation. The free event, which will be live streamed online, will run from 12:30 p.m. EDT to 1:45 p.m. EDT and will also include presentations from Nikesh […]

Google is looking to help application and Website developers shrink their content so that more users will be able to access games and Websites using mobile devices and over slower-than-desired Internet connections. That’s the idea behind Google’s new developer-targeted “Compressor Head” video series, which details the evolution and use of compression algorithms, which can squish […]

Google is seeking online votes from San Francisco Bay Area residents to help select the four best projects by community nonprofit groups that will receive grant awards of $500,000 each. Six more local nonprofit groups will also be selected to each receive $250,000 grants under the program. The awards are part of the Google Impact […]

Google is working to create some 4,000 prototypes of advanced mobile tablet devices equipped with features that will allow users to view complex 3D objects on their screens. The development of the futuristic tablets, which are allegedly slated to begin production sometime in June, was reported May 22 by The Wall Street Journal, based on […]

Google is expanding its arsenal of mobile management tools for Google Apps to help enterprises better manage the Android devices and capabilities of their BYOD users. The new features were unveiled by Clayton Jones, Google Enterprise product manager, in a May 21 post on the Google Enterprise Blog. “Bring your own device (BYOD) is no […]

Google has added new recommendations to help businesses streamline their mobile Web pages so that they load faster and perform better for mobile users, which can in turn help businesses increase their mobile transactions and sales. The improvements are being made through Google’s recent updates to its PageSpeed Insights tools for developers, which allow them […]

Google is now giving Google account holders creative capabilities that let them highlight and share their photos and videos through a new free “picture book” service it calls Google+ Stories. The innovative and cool Stories feature collects the photos and videos that users back up to their Google accounts and then automatically sorts them into […]