Todd R. Weiss

The Google Maps Android API Utility Library has been updated with two key new data visualization features—marker clustering and heat maps—that are aimed at improving the tools developers have when they are building apps for Google Maps on Android. The new tools were unveiled by Emma Yeap and Iris Uy, engineering practicum interns at Google […]

To help developers expand their expertise with Google’s Cloud Platform, the company will hold an all-day Google Cloud Platform Live event in San Francisco on March 25 to highlight new features, capabilities and updates that are now part of the ever-expanding cloud environment. As part of Google Cloud Platform Live, Google is making a limited […]

Google wants to help make Valentine’s Day a success for its millions of users, so it is offering up a list of suggestions for how people can use Google services to make this Valentine’s Day more memorable. Topping the list, according to a Feb. 12 post on the Google Lat Long Blog, is a suggestion […]

The 2014 Google Science Fair is now open for entries from 13- to 18-year-old students around the world who have great ideas for incredible science projects, and this year’s contest offers some great new prizes for the winners. The call for entries for this year’s fourth annual event was unveiled by Clare Conway of the […]

To make it easier for businesses of all sizes to deploy Google Chromebooks to their employees, Google’s Chrome team just announced a partnership with virtualization vendor VMware that will allow critical legacy Windows applications to be hosted and delivered via the cloud so that Chromebook users can access them through Web browsers. The move means […]

By design, Google has brought its superfast Google Fiber Gigabit Internet and cable television services to only a small number of communities in the United States as it observes how it is accepted and how it can be deployed on a larger scale over time. The beneficiaries of those Google Fiber experiments so far include […]

The Google Cloud SQL service, which provides a database backbone for applications running on Google App Engine or Google Compute Engine, has gained key usability and security features, including automatic encryption and support for 500GB databases, and is now generally available to all customers as a managed SQL service on the Google Cloud Platform. Also […]

Google has updated its Google Search Appliance line with refinements that will help businesses find the information they need faster amid their vast stores of corporate data. The Google Search Appliance update to Version 7.2 was unveiled by Brent VerWeyst, product manager for Google Enterprise Search, in a Feb. 11 post on the Google Enterprise […]

Google, which late last year loudly protested the powerful revelations of spying on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA), is now asking Congress to update a key federal law so that government entities would have to obtain a warrant from a judge to peruse the contents of private communications. The request was made […]

Virgin Atlantic will use Google Glass to test how it and similar wearable computing innovations could help the airline assist passengers from their arrival at an airport through boarding and departure, and even with their in-flight experiences. The Glass experiments at Virgin Atlantic, which begin on Feb. 11, were unveiled by the airline in connection […]

Google isn’t just about code. It’s also about art and creativity and the expression of new ideas, which is why Google is now helping promote a global competition to find an up-and-coming developer artist who pushes the boundaries of art using code. That’s the idea behind a new Google initiative to join with the Barbican […]

In mid 1990s, the Internet was just beginning to take shape as a global business juggernaut. The Netscape Navigator Web browser had been launched, and it would soon be followed by Microsoft Internet Explorer, allowing anyone with a computer and modem to go online to see what there was to discover on the World Wide […]