Todd R. Weiss

ROTTERDAM, Holland—To make it easier for its customers to build and distribute enterprise apps for employees, enterprise app platform vendor Mendix has added a collaboration-inspired software layer it calls AppCloud to its app building platform. AppCloud is designed to be a central place in the app building process where developers, users, partners and others can […]

Google has refreshed its free online Webmaster Academy course to provide even more tips and information to beginning Webmasters to help them improve their Website skills. The improved and updated Webmaster Academy, which was launched by Google two years ago, was announced by Mary Chen of the Webmaster outreach team in a March 18 post […]

It was to be the last time I traveled with my 5-year-old Lenovo T61 laptop running Windows XP because, hey, Windows XP support is ending April 8. So, perhaps, I wasn’t taking my usual care and precautions when I placed a cup of bubbling, cold Sprite right next to my open laptop as I was […]

Google announced the winners of its second annual Google Journalism Fellowships, which are awarded to eligible college students who want to dive deeper into digital journalism. In addition to the fellowships, Google also announced that it is collaborating with the European Journalism Centre to bring journalism education online through a free Web data journalism course […]

Google will be announcing a series of changes and new innovations for online advertisers in its Google AdWords program in a live online event on April 22. The presentation, which will be live-streamed at noon EDT April 22 on the Google AdWords Blog, will feature Jerry Dischler, the vice president of product management for AdWords, […]

Open-Xchange, which has been slowly adding capabilities to its cloud-based OX App Suite since 2013, has just added the OX Spreadsheet to the mix, giving users the ability to create spreadsheets that work with files from Microsoft Office and other office suites. The new OX Spreadsheet will let users edit and share spreadsheets wherever they […]

Google is donating 50 million hours of cloud computing time to the U.S. government to assist in a recently announced Climate Data Initiative that aims to help organizations and communities use public data to look at climate conditions in their areas. “Up until now, it’s been difficult for the public to locate detailed, timely data […]

VSP, the vision insurance vendor that will offer partial reimbursements for Google Glass frames and prescription lenses under a deal announced in January, is now getting a new facility in Maryland ready to make the lenses and assemble the units once Glass goes on sale to consumers. While no official release date has yet been […]

Google Chrome desktop Web browser users are just now receiving one of the coolest features that’s been available to Android smartphone users since June of 2012—the ability to get useful, just-in-time information at a glance through the innovative Google Now service. Google Now for desktop Chrome users has been rumored since March of 2013, when […]

Government requests for information about users in criminal investigations have risen by more than 120 percent since 2009 when Google began tallying such figures, according to the latest global transparency report issued by the company. “Though our number of users has grown throughout the time period, we’re also seeing more and more governments start to […]

Google’s innovative $35 Chromecast television dongle often gets cool new features, but a new add-on from Google’s Chrome Experiments project is slated to be a big hit because it lets users wirelessly display the photos from their smartphones right onto the screen of their digital televisions. That’s the idea behind Photowall for Chromecast, a new […]

Google Debunks Top 10 Google Glass Myths by Todd R. Weiss Myth 1: Glass Is the Ultimate Distraction From the Real World Nonsense, says Google. Instead, Glass allows you to look up and engage with the world rather than look down at your phone and become isolated. “That’s why Glass is off by default and […]