Todd R. Weiss

NEW YORK—Providing a better in-stadium experience to the fans of the 32 teams in the National Football League is becoming a mantra within the league as it works to find ways to keep fans filling stadium seats rather than staying home to watch the game on big-screen televisions. To help make the in-stadium experience richer […]

Google’s GitHub developer community has been helpful for developers to collaborate and innovate since the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) moved to the platform in January 2013, but as it has grown, it’s become harder to find projects and keep organized. To fix those problems, Google has added a new, streamlined and image-based landing page to […]

Google Business Photos has just signed on with the Best Western hotel chain to capture detailed 360-degree panoramic images of its 2,200 hotels in North America for travelers to view as they search for accommodations on their travels. The service is similar to Google Street View, but aimed at businesses that want to have the […]

Google is closing down its beta Schemer app service that was started in December of 2011 as a way for users to plan their activities and reach their goals. The demise of Schemer was announced Jan. 10 in a post on the Schemer Google+ page. “The time has come for Schemer to power down,” the […]

Google’s Motorola unit is giving away a free Google Chromecast dongle to customers who buy a new Moto X smartphone in either 16GB or 32GB configurations. The catch is that the offer, which ran over the weekend, will come to a halt at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday night, Jan. 14. To get the […]

Google has released a new version of Google Play Services, giving Android developers a chance to build more new features into their applications, including turn-based multiplayer support and improved battery life capabilities. The new Version 4.1 of Google Play Services, which is already rolling out to users, was announced in a Jan. 9 post on […]

Google has unveiled a new feature that will let users communicate via email more easily between their Gmail and Google+ accounts, but some critics say that the changes could be an invasion of privacy. The changes, which will allow Gmail and Google+ users to send an email to another user even when they don’t have […]

Google has begun an early pilot test project to use an 83-foot-long ferry boat across San Francisco’s South Bay to get employees from the city to a port in Redwood City, where they can catch a private bus to get to their offices each workday. The ferry boat test was revealed in a Jan. 8 […]

Google has been hit with a $204,200 fine by France’s National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL) in connection with changes Google made to its data policies in 2012 that continue to be in conflict with the French Data Protection Act. The fine, which is the highest financial penalty assessed so far by the […]

An Iowa insurance executive has filed a lawsuit against Google for allowing a copyrighted photograph of the woman to remain on a satirical blog site that mocks the physical appearance of the woman and other business executives. The Website, Sexy Executives, published the copyrighted photograph on Dec. 7, 2009, without permission, according to ARAG North […]

Toshiba and LG Electronics have unveiled new Chromebook devices at CES, including LG’s all-in-one desktop machine, called a Chromebase. The new offerings mean that eight manufacturers are now building Chromebooks around the world, according to a Jan. 7 post by Caesar Sengupta, vice president of product management for Google Chrome. The new LG Chromebase all-in-one […]

Google, Apple, Facebook and other businesses, from universities to hospitals, have been using private buses in San Francisco to pick up employees and bring them to their workplaces for years, but in the past, those companies have not contributed money to the city for the upkeep of the stops. That’s about to change later in […]