Todd R. Weiss

Google Glass is being used by patients with Parkinson’s disease in early trial experiments aimed at finding new ways to help people affected by this debilitating disease. The work, which is being conducted at Newcastle University in England, is showing early promise by helping patients remember to take their medications and giving users more confidence […]

Google is expanding its Glass Explorers program by offering a special one-day opportunity on April 15 for any U.S. resident to buy a Glass device for $1,500, even though it is still not available for retail sales. The one-day sales promotion was unveiled by the Glass team on April 10 at 3:01 p.m. EDT in […]

Enterprise Windows XP users now have one more option to find a new computer operating system since support for XP ended April 8. They can now receive $200 rebates on any Google Chromebook when they also sign up for a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) subscription from VMware for at least one year. The new $200 rebate offer […]

The Google Cultural Institute is highlighting the U.S civil rights movement through a fascinating collection of documents, photographs and film clips in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The new online collection is being unveiled just as the LBJ Presidential Library holds a three-day Civil Rights Summit from April […]

Google’s latest Chrome Web browser Version 34 is now rolling out to users, as well as a new ChromeOS Version 34 for all Chrome devices, as the company continues its regularly scheduled updates for its Chrome line of browsers and related applications. The latest stable channel update of the Chrome browser, Version 34, was announced […]

As Google Glass Explorers have been using the eyewear-mounted computers in their communities since the first early Glass devices were distributed in April 2013, it was only a matter of time before they also made their way into businesses, factories and other workplaces. Now Google wants to encourage and grow that nascent trend with its […]

ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND—When The Boston Globe was sold by The New York Times in October 2013, it meant far more than a change in management at the then-141-year-old flagship newspaper in Beantown. The Globe also had to undergo quick technology changes as it was broken away from its previous owners and their IT systems. That is […]

Google I/O 2014 registration was supposed to start April 8 and run through April 10, but has now been delayed and expanded, running April 15-18, according to a low-key announcement from Google. “We’re still working to make the registration process even easier for you, and it will now be open four days starting next week […]

Google has unveiled new lower pricing for Google Cloud Platform users through “Sustained Use Discounts” that the company has just made available to users who run large projects on virtual machines. Under the new pricing scheme, users will save more as they use more virtual machines in the Google Cloud, wrote Navneet Joneja, a Google […]

Android TV could be coming soon from Google. That’s the basis of a widely circulating report from The Verge, which claims to have obtained documents that describe Google’s upcoming plans to launch its second major attempt to get into the televisions of consumers with its own content. Back in 2010, Google had tried an earlier […]

Google has given Google Maps developers another helpful tool for their Maps-building arsenal now that the JavaScript API supports the GeoJSON format. The addition means that Google Maps developers will be able to use GeoJSON to encode a wide range of geographic data structures in their maps. And what that means, according to Google, is […]

Google has just made improvements in its Google Calendar API that make it easier for enterprises to schedule employee activities more accurately through new “event IDs,” which are used to help differentiate different activities. By incorporating this change, businesses will have an easier time managing calendars for multiple employees because the changes will be directly […]