Todd R. Weiss

The New York Police Department is eyeing two Google Glass devices to see how they might fit in to police work in the Big Apple. In an email reply to an eWEEK inquiry, Stephen Davis, a deputy commissioner for the NYPD confirmed that the department has obtained the devices and is now exploring how they […]

Google Cloud Platform has added support for HIPAA-mandated Business Associates Agreements (BAAs), which will help health care organizations comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act when using the Google Cloud Platform for their applications. The BAA support, which will allow organizations to build and deploy their health care applications on the Google Cloud […]

To help find and fix bugs in its vast software library, Google has expanded its Security Rewards Program to cover more Google software products, including all Chrome apps and extensions. The announcement about the program expansion was unveiled by Eduardo Vela Nava and Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team in a Feb. 4 post […]

Google is offering rewards of up to $150,000 each to security researchers who help the company identify and patch serious vulnerabilities in the code for Chrome OS as Google continues to sponsor competitions that help it root out bad code in its products. “Security is a core tenet of Chromium, which is why we hold […]

Google is sponsoring a “Doodle 4 Google” contest for K-12 students in the United States to encourage them to create spectacular doodles— one of which will be featured in the future on Google’s doodle-friendly home page. “Doodle 4 Google is the chance for young artists to think and dream big,” wrote Ryan Germick, the Doodle […]

Using a new Chromebox matched with Google Apps and Google+ Hangouts services, Google has launched its first ever Chromebox for meetings package to help businesspeople hold easier meetings over long distances in real time. “Chromebox for meetings brings together Google+ Hangouts and Google Apps in an easy-to-manage Chromebox, making it simpler for any company to […]

In a settlement that has taken some 39 months to reach, Google and the European Union (EU) have apparently brokered a deal that will end an antitrust investigation that has saddled Google in Europe since November 2010. The settlement, which still faces formal final approval by the EU and its regulatory arm, the European Commission […]

Google has finally brought its Google Now notification “card” feature to the latest version of its Chrome beta browser for desktop users, Version 33.0.1750.70 for Windows, Mac and Linux. The long-awaited inclusion of Google Now cards for desktop Chrome users was announced by Travis Skare, a Google software engineer, in a Feb. 3 post on […]

Google’s Chromecast television dongle is now expected to get a lot of attention from app developers with the release of a Google Cast Software Development Kit (SDK), which will allow a range of innovative software creations to be inspired for the devices. The release of the new Cast SDK was unveiled by Ambarish Kenghe, the […]

Google’s mysterious, four-story barge that’s apparently being developed in San Francisco Bay as a floating technology showroom for consumers since October 2013 continues to be in hot water with local and marine authorities. Now the barge, which was first noticed in the bay last year, must be moved from the area until it has secured […]

Last October, Google added a “reset browser settings” button to its Chrome Web browser so that users could easily restore control of their browsers if malicious software changed their user settings against their wishes. Now Google is upping the ante by automatically prompting users to use the reset button if it appears that their browser […]

To show off the gaming and entertainment promise for Google Glass, Google is working to create games that users can play on the head-mounted computing devices when they eventually go on sale to consumers later in 2014. With that in mind, Google engineers have created five Glass “mini-games” that are available now as preview versions […]