Todd R. Weiss

Google is going after one of its biggest competitors with a cannonball by announcing that its Chrome browser will support Windows XP users until at least 2015. That’s a year longer than Microsoft plans to continue to support XP, which has been one of the most popular and rugged Windows operating systems built by Microsoft […]

The upcoming Android KitKat mobile operating system is going to deal differently with SMS apps that use hidden APIs, so Google is advising developers of the changes so they can adjust their SMS apps for the next version of Android. “Some of you have built SMS apps using hidden APIs—a practice we discourage because hidden […]

Google is adding a new Native Messaging API to its Chrome Web browser to replace the capabilities of a formerly popular Netscape-era NPAPI Web browser plug-in that will no longer be supported starting in January 2014. In September, the Chrome team announced that support for the old Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) is being dropped in […]

Google Fiber Gigabit Internet and cable television service in Overland Park, Kan., has now been put on hold indefinitely by Google, a month after city leaders on Sept. 16 delayed an imminent contract agreement and raised a last-minute liability concern with the pending deal. At the city’s council meeting on Oct. 15, two local attorneys […]

PHILADELPHIA—Changing roles for CIOs are not just occurring in private and public companies, but also for CIOs who build and run technology systems for the U.S.’ 50 states and its territories. These CEOS are finding that their jobs increasingly involve collaboration with other states and agencies and also incorporate new requirements for bolder leadership and […]

Google Fiber high-speed Gigabit Internet and cable television services have been spreading into more than a half-dozen communities around the nation since the service debuted in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., in the fall of 2012, but it’s still fairly unknown in most parts of the country. To help educate prospective users about […]

Innovative and fun maps are always being built by creative Web developers using Google Maps APIs, and several discovered recently by eWEEK are being brought together here in another of our occasional maps roundups. San Francisco Literary History This city is famous for so many things, from the Golden Gate Bridge to its lovely cable […]

Google will soon use profile photos, online recommendations and other details about Google account holders in online ads that will be seen only by their friends who are also using Google services such as search, Google Maps and Google Play. The broader use of user information was announced in a “Terms of Service update” by […]

Google Maps left out one of its most useful features—the ability to create a map with multiple destinations—when it redesigned its user interface earlier this summer, but Google is now returning the capability and adding two other useful tools in its latest update. The changes, which came largely due to user feedback about the new […]

Google is looking for great young software developers to participate in its upcoming Google Code-in 2013 and Google Summer of Code 2014 events. The latest editions of the Google Code-in, which is for 13- to 17-year-old students, and the Summer of Code 2014, which is for college students, were announced by Carol Smith and Stephanie […]

Google has added several new developer tools to its maturing Google Play Games platform so that developers can continue to improve and grow their game apps for consumers and gaming fanatics. The upgrades, which include new alerts to developers for errant coding or other problems that are found in the apps they are building for […]

Google Shopping has recently unveiled several new capabilities to make it easier for online shoppers to buy what they are seeking from stores close to where they live and work. The updates, which include product listing ads that display where the items can be purchased locally, as well as local storefronts where shoppers can peruse […]