Todd R. Weiss

Google has integrated Waze community-reported, real-time traffic reports into the mobile versions of Google Maps, just two months after Google acquired Waze in June 2013. “No one likes getting stuck in traffic. That’s why the Waze and Google Maps teams are working together to harness the power of Google technology and the passion of the […]

When Google Glass asked prospective users to dream back in February about what they would do with Glass if they had one of the innovative, ground-breaking eyewear-mounted computers, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, a high school teacher, quickly composed his reply, which he sent off to Google’s #ifihadglass Web page. “ifIhadglass … It would transform the way […]

Google is fighting a new legal battle over data-privacy challenges in the United Kingdom and argues that the company can’t be held accountable to U.K. privacy laws because Google is an American company based in the United States. That position, however, is not going over well with British authorities or with a group of Britons […]

Google Glass is a difficult platform for which to build a video game, but the extra challenge of the small screen and lack of traditional game controls doesn’t discourage mobile games designer Sean McCracken. Instead, for McCracken, building his first video game for the diminutive Glass devices has been a journey into a realm of […]

Google Fiber, the company’s high-speed Internet and cable television service, hopes to begin hookups to subscribers in Provo, Utah, by the end of 2013 as the company continues to upgrade existing infrastructure for the new, faster services. “In July, we completed our agreement with the City of Provo, and we’re working hard to hit our […]

Google Search is making it easier for users to find information they are seeking within their own Gmail, Google Calendar or Google+ accounts just by making a request using their own voice. The upcoming new feature is bringing capabilities that Google Now users have had for about a year to the Google Search product and […]

Google is adding several key new features to its Google+ app for Android to help workers use it in the workplace, including giving users the ability to create and manage multiple accounts for their personal and work lives. Also being added is a feature that lets Google+ users make restricted posts using their Android devices […]

Google is adding another open-source tool for developers with the release of its Gumbo HTML parser, which is a C implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm. The open-source code release was announced in an Aug. 14 post by Jonathan Tang, of the search features team, on the Google Open Source Blog. “One of the big […]

Google has revealed the winners of 105 Google Research Awards for computer science projects that will be conducted by graduate students around the world, and also introduced a first-time, postgraduate Computer Science Teaching Fellows program aimed at K-12 teachers. The 105 winners of the summer 2013 Google Research Awards were named in an Aug. 12 […]

Google Glass isn’t slated to hit the consumer market in the United States until late 2013, but companies such as Fidelity Investments are wasting no time experimenting with possible uses of Glass by their customers. Fidelity has recently been developing a prototype Glassware app it calls “Fidelity Market Monitor for Glass,” which could allow users […]

Google’s Chrome OS is again receiving maintenance updates to its Stable, Dev and Beta software channels for users on all Chrome OS devices, as part of its regular code refreshes. The new Stable Channel version of Chrome OS is Version 28.0.1500.95, according to an Aug. 12 post on the Chrome Releases Blog by Josafat Garcia […]

Google Glass Explorers will be receiving a lot of new cool and useful features in the latest software update for the devices, including Google Now “cards” that present up-to-the-minute information on the weather, nearby traffic, restaurants and much more. The new features were unveiled as part of the fourth regularly scheduled monthly Glass software update […]