Todd R. Weiss

Google is taking the very unusual step of replacing an image in its extensive Street View photo collection after a grieving father expressed his anguish that the online photo captured the scene of his son’s 2009 murder. The case emerged recently through news reports from KTVU Channel 2 FOX television in Oakland, Calif., which reported […]

Google is paying a $17 million settlement to 37 U.S. states to resolve allegations that the company violated consumer privacy by using tracking cookies to capture the searching habits of Apple Safari Web browser users from 2011 to 2012. The settlement, which also includes an agreement with Washington, D.C., was announced by New York Attorney […]

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his now famous Gettysburg Address 150 years ago today while standing on the hallowed site in central Pennsylvania. On this anniversary of Lincoln’s speech, Google has brought together an exhibit of five handwritten versions of the 272-word address in an online gallery where visitors can view them and see their […]

Google is opening six temporary stores around the United States to showcase its latest high-tech gadgets, just in time for the Christmas holiday season. The stores will be filled with Nexus 7 tablets, the latest Chromebooks, the Chromecast video dongle and more so that shoppers can check out the products and place online orders on […]

Google is bolstering its fight to block online images of child abuse by fine-tuning its search engine to prevent such links from appearing in searches, while bringing in more than 200 people to find even more ways to put an end to this kind of exploitation. That’s the message from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, who […]

Google has created a new section of its Google Play store where teachers can find innovative apps that can help them teach their students and ease their administrative responsibilities. The new Google Play for Education section of the Play store was unveiled in a post by Shazia Makhdumi, the head of strategic education partnerships for […]

Google is launching online shopping improvements in its mobile Chrome browsers for Android and iOS to help users more quickly and easily fill out on-screen forms using upgraded autofill capabilities on a multitude of mobile devices. The faster autofill features were unveiled by Google software engineers Ruslan Abdikeev and Jim Blackler in a Nov. 14 […]

Google’s nine-year-old project to scan millions of published books so that they can searched online by Internet users has been ruled to be legal by a New York judge, ending a case that has dragged through the courts since 2005 even as the technology landscape has continued to change. In his decision, U.S. Circuit Judge […]

Google has moved its latest Chrome Web browser, Version 31, to its Stable release track, making it the default version for users who want the latest release edition of its popular browser. The new Chrome Stable browser is officially known as Version 31.0.1650.48 and is available for free download for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome […]

Google is launching inexpensive language translation services to Android developers to help them get their apps translated so they can sell them in other countries. The new service, which is expected to cost about $75 for a small app to about $150 for a large app for each language translation, was unveiled in a Nov. […]

Google has created an online Typhoon Yolanda Crisis Page to help victims of the destructive, powerful storm reconnect with friends and family members around the world. The Crisis Page harnesses a wide range of Google services, from a person locator to relief maps and more, according to a Nov. 12 post by Aileen Apolo, the […]

Google has released its latest Google Cloud Endpoints project for general availability, which aims to make it easier for mobile developers to tie their apps into Google’s APIs. For mobile developers, Endpoints provides a simple way to develop a shared Web back end and also provides critical infrastructures, such as OAuth 2.0 authentication, eliminating a […]