Todd R. Weiss

Google is asking developers who build applications using Google APIs to update their apps to the latest OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol so that user log-ins will be as secure as possible in the future. The OAuth 2.0 update initiative was announced by Antonio Fuentes of the Google Identity Team in an April 23 post on […]

Google Street View is gaining the ability to allow users to see multiple images taken since 2007 of the same places so that online viewers can compare and see changes in the images over time. “If you’ve ever dreamt of being a time traveler like Doc Brown, now’s your chance,” wrote Vinay Shet, Google Street […]

Give credit to Google for giving Google Maps developers plenty of options for training and improving their skills so that they can build better online maps for users. In its latest training iteration, Google is offering a free online course through the Code School program to developers who want to update their skills using the […]

Google is again revving up its Google AdWords features and tools to help digital marketers get more out of their ad-based campaigns, especially those aimed at mobile users. The new features, which include easier customer conversion measurements, improved re-engagement paths to increase sales, and enterprise-class workflow, reporting and optimization tools, were unveiled by Jerry Dischler, […]

Google’s latest ThreadSanitizer tool has been updated to Version 2, giving the five-year-old tool improved capabilities to help developers find more coding problems in less time than in the past. ThreadSanitizer (aka TSan) is a runtime data race detector based on binary translation, which was originally developed by Google engineers in 2009, wrote Alexander Potapenko, […]

It’s been just about impossible to artistically create a blurry foreground or background in a photo taken with a mobile phone or tablet camera because the small lenses don’t display “depth of field.” That is changing, though, thanks to a very cool new “lens blur” feature added by Google to its Google Camera app for […]

The 10th annual Google Summer of Code program will involve 1,307 students who will be working with 190 mentoring organizations around the globe as they create open-source code that will be shared with the world. The selection of the participating students was announced by Carol Smith of the Google Open Source Programs Office, in an […]

In the wilds of Nepal, Google Glass is being tested by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as a way to better track endangered wild animals and guard against poaching, under a testing program established by Google in 2013. Now Google wants to extend the use of Glass by other nonprofits that could benefit from the […]

Internet users who like to keep up on the latest developments about topics that interest them online can now make that task easier by using new subscription tools from Google Trends. The subscription features were unveiled by Gavri Smith, a Google software engineer, on the Google Inside Search Blog. “Google Trends is a helpful place […]

Google Fiber arrived in Kansas City in the fall of 2012, and now Google is helping to get more people—particularly senior citizens—up to speed on using the Internet so they also can take advantage of the super high-speed fiber service. To do that, Arts Tech, a Kansas City, Mo.-based youth organization that works with underserved […]

The Google Cloud Platform is expanding its capabilities with Hadoop through new connectors that can be used with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Datastore to run Hadoop queries. Also bolstering the cloud platform is a new version of Google App Engine that includes scalability and performance improvements. The new Hadoop connectors were announced by Pratul […]

Google Glass is helping emergency room doctors in a busy Boston hospital get patient information much faster, while also allowing doctors to focus more on their patients instead of on computers. That’s one of the biggest benefits of a Glass pilot project being conducted since December 2013 at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where […]