Todd R. Weiss

Google Chromecast users are again getting a wider selection of video, music and other services that they can access using their Chromecast devices with the company’s announcement of 10 more services that will be supported by the device. “Just in time for the holidays, 10 new apps have been added to the Chromecast family,” Jennifer […]

Dell has launched its first-ever Chromebook that is targeted to school students and educators, and company officials said it will release additional models in the future for consumers, small businesses and other markets. The new Dell Chromebook 11 devices will include fourth-generation Intel Celeron 2955U processors, 11.6-inch screens, up to 10 hours of battery life […]

Google Street View has unveiled a new tool that will let users build their own Street View image collections from their own photographs. The new “Create Your Own Street View” capability was announced by Evan Rapoport, product manager for Google Maps and Photo Sphere, in a Dec. 9 post on the Google Lat Long Blog. […]

A Google commuter bus that whisks employees to and from their San Francisco neighborhoods to their workplace some 34 miles away in Mountain View, Calif., was blocked from proceeding by a group of protestors who oppose the Google buses for traffic and economic reasons. The incident was reported in a story by Reuters, which said […]

Google Maps is now gaining some spectacular map imagery from the National Geographic Society, which is contributing some 500 of its maps to Google Map’s new public data program. The addition of the National Geographic maps was unveiled by Frank Biasi, director of digital development for National Geographic Maps, in a Dec. 6 post on […]

Google’s annual Zeitgeist list and video of the year’s most popular online search terms is getting some competition this month. The PBS NewsHour Extra television program is asking students in middle and high school to create their own videos marking the year’s biggest events for entry in a contest that runs through midnight Dec. 14. […]

Since landing on Mars Aug. 6, 2012, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the planet’s surface and conducting science experiments on soil and rocks. One of the mission’s key milestones was reached this week when the rover’s specialized on-board laser was fired for the 100,000th time as it continues to explore the planet’s history. […]

Google is giving Android search users a new tool to help ensure that they have more information at their fingertips: When searching on a topic using an Android device, the results will also now show related apps that users can download for deeper information about the topics they are querying. But that’s not all, mobile […]

Google wants to add some flashy and decorative twinkles and snow to your online holiday photograph—literally. That’s exactly what the search giant is now offering to users as part of a new and free service aimed at any user who wants to puff up their online images. The photo enhancements were unveiled by Erik Murphy-Chutorian, […]

Google is now providing Gmail and Google Calendar users with the ability to back up their Gmail and Calendar data for safekeeping or to transfer it to another application or service. At the same time, Google has added several new features to the Calendar service to make it easier to manage for users. The new […]

Google has quietly acquired seven companies that specialize in robotics as the company appears poised to head off into another intriguing high-tech direction, just as it has with self-driving cars, Google Glass and other Google initiatives. The road map to robotics at Google was revealed in a Dec. 4 report by The New York Times, […]

Driving while wearing Google Glass earned a Southern California woman a traffic ticket back in October, and now she is taking her case to court, arguing that she was only wearing the device and not using it when she was stopped. In a telephone interview with eWEEK, Cecelia Abadie, 44, of Temecula, Calif., said that […]