Todd R. Weiss

Google’s fledgling Tech Hub Network for entrepreneurial communities around the United States is growing again, as the Austin, Texas-based Capital Factory joins Google’s continuing efforts to help startups by providing Google help, resources, advice and more. The addition of the Capital Factory was announced by John Lyman, head of partnerships at Google for Entrepreneurs, in […]

Google has acquired Stackdriver, a Boston-based company that was started in 2012 to provide cloud application monitoring services to users. Google announced the move May 7 in a brief post by Tom Kershaw, a Google Cloud Platform product manager, on the Google Cloud Platform Blog. “Stackdriver has built a leading service to help developers intelligently […]

Google has unveiled its latest Google Play services application, giving app developers new features that they can include in their products, including in-app Street View imagery capabilities and the ability for apps to recognize the activities of users. Google Play services 4.4 was announced by the Android team in a May 7 post on the […]

Google Maps apps for Android and iOS are continuing to be tweaked and improved by Google, and the latest versions add new features such as better navigation and easier offline map access. The new capabilities, which also include business filters so users can find just the right nearby business that can provide the products or […]

Google’s expanding Chromebook computer series is again getting various new Intel-equipped models, this time with Celeron or Core i3 processors from a wide range of manufacturers including Acer, Dell, Lenovo and Toshiba. The latest new machines were announced by Bill Brougher, director of Google’s Chrome OS Partner Engineering, in a May 6 post on The […]

The Google Chrome team is experimenting with improved URLs that could provide better protection for users against phishing attacks that trick them into visiting malicious Websites. The early-stage tests involve an “origin-chip” feature that replaces long and often-hard-to-decipher URLs with short URLs made up only of a Website’s actual domain name, according to a May […]

Almost as quickly as it began early on May 6, Microsoft’s one-day special $199 sale on Asus X200-MA laptop computers appeared to end by mid-morning when the Microsoft Website revealed that the available units had sold out. For excited buyers who had learned about the one-day $199 sale in pre-event promotions and went online to […]

Google Wallet, which lets online shoppers make purchases without having to enter credit card numbers each time, could soon be available to Google Glass users, allowing them to make purchases with voice commands or gestures. The pending addition of Google Wallet services to Google Glass users was reported in a TechCrunch story on May 5, […]

Android KitKat 4.4, the latest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system, is gaining more use on more devices, according to the latest figures from Google. The latest Android Developer Dashboard Website, which regularly tallies the market-share figures for Android operating systems, announced that KitKat 4.4 is now on 8.5 percent of Android mobile devices […]

Google is now delivering online purchases directly to shoppers in two more U.S. metro areas as it expands its Google Shopping Express services to New York City and West Los Angeles. The service expansion in New York and Los Angeles was announced by Jenna Owens, the general manager of operations for Google Shopping Express, in […]