Todd R. Weiss

See and Hear France Through a Google Maps Walking Tour by Todd R. Weiss Meet Christophe First, we are introduced to our guide, Christophe, by clicking the blue “Start your walk” button and walking with him over the bridge to start our night tour. Follow the green line to start seeing the sights. Mister P’s […]

Google is again looking at how specially modified contact lenses could be built to help people with medical problems—this time potentially fitting contacts with tiny cameras that could someday help visually impaired people get sound cues about what the contacts “see” in their path. A patent application by Google for the technology was recently revealed […]

To have a Website, you need a catchy and descriptive domain name. And to find the perfect domain name for your company or services, you have to spend some time researching available names and picking just the right one for your online identity. So once you get that domain name, then you definitely want to […]

Two French new media artists and developers have been named as the winners of the first DevArt competition sponsored by Google and London’s Barbican multi-arts and conference venue. The duo of Cyril Diagne and Béatrice Lartigue of France were selected for their project, “Les métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia,” an interactive and animated “poetic adventure” built […]

Google Fiber recently began testing a free outdoor public WiFi system outside the Crown Center mixed-use development in Kansas City, Mo., as part of an experiment to build more public WiFi systems in the Kansas City area. A Google spokesman confirmed the presence of the new experimental WiFi system after an article about the network […]

Google must now pay the French government as much as $1.3 billion in previously unpaid taxes, following a government investigation into the company’s tax liabilities owed to French authorities. The owed tax money was revealed in an April 28 report by Forbes, which stated that the exact amount of the additional taxes owed by Google […]

Google’s experimental self-driving cars have been out on the streets since 2010, but they are now getting one of their toughest assignments: learning how to operate amid dense traffic, crowds of pedestrians and other hazards of inner-city driving. That’s the word from the Google self-driving car project, which explained how the self-driving vehicles are now […]

Google knows that Website design can make a huge difference in whether mobile customers will make a purchase on a company’s site or if they go somewhere else to buy. Now, Google aims to remind business leaders just how important those subtle site design factors can be for their Websites and their companies’ bottom lines. […]

Google Fiber ultra-high-speed Internet access may not be the only new technology service being considered by the company for some 34 U.S. cities. Google also may be considering bringing WiFi service to the cities on its list of areas being considered for Google Fiber. Google Fiber first raised that possibility back in February 2014 when […]

Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe will pay a total of $324 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged that the companies were illegally conspiring to control salaries by not recruiting employees who worked for rival companies. The settlement was reported April 24 in a story by Reuters, which added that the payment agreement comes […]

Google Cultural Institute Highlights an Opulent Paris Opera House by Todd R. Weiss Stage View Here is where it all happens, on the stage of the Palais Garnier, looking out over the grand Mezzanine and Orchestra sections, where adoring crowds have been watching performances for more than 139 years. Grand Foyer Here the Grand Foyer […]

LogMeIn is building on the growth of its Join.me online meeting and collaboration app by releasing a new version of Join.me that’s specifically targeted to enterprises, featuring deeper security, management and authentication tools. The new Join.me enterprise app service was announced by the company April 24 as a way for larger businesses to use the […]