Todd R. Weiss

Google Glass is in the midst of being tried out by several thousand “Explorer” users in the last few months, but there may be no users more affected by the use of Glass than early adoptees with physical disabilities. One such user, Alex Blaszczuk, a young woman who became a quadriplegic after a 2011 car […]

Google wants Web pages to load faster on mobile devices, so it has issued a new set of guidelines for webmasters so they can optimize their pages for display on smartphones and tablets. “Users tell us they use smartphones to search online because it’s quick and convenient, but today’s average mobile page typically takes more […]

Google Maps deliver more than just directions to far-away destinations. With the help of clever developers, Google Maps APIs are constantly being used to create cool, intriguing Websites and online features for visitors around the world. With that in mind, it’s time for yet another eWEEK roundup of some of the most interesting sites recently […]

The Android Action Bar will now be usable in more Android applications due to the new release of a backward-compatible version of the code that surfaced at the Google I/O developers conference this past May. The code was used in the conference’s official event app and is now being released for free use by Google. […]

Google is expanding its developer tools in several of its key cloud products, including Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Datastore and Google App Engine, as the search giant continues to add functions and robustness to the Google Cloud Platform. The new tools, including Layer 3 load balancing for Google Compute Engine and improvements to the […]

A recently installed modern cargo handling system at the Port of New York and New Jersey continues to be slowed by software glitches that have plagued the project at least since June, but some service improvements are starting to be seen. That’s the latest joint status report from the Ports and the system vendor, Navis, […]

Google’s Chrome DevTools toolset for developers was just updated with three new tools that will make it easier for developers to write their code and produce their products. The additions were unveiled in an Aug. 5 post by Vsevolod Vlasov, a DevTools software engineer, on The Chromium Blog. The new features are meant to “improve […]

Google in July released new versions of their Google Maps apps for Android, iPhone and iPad users, and now the search giant wants to ensure that users are getting all the best built-in features from the updated apps. To help with the transition, Stephanie Zhan, a Google Maps summer intern, put together a list of […]

Amazon is adding fine art to the categories of items that shoppers can buy from the e-commerce giant, which already is the leader in selling books, CDs, DVDs and more online. The new Amazon Art category on Amazon’s site includes more than 40,000 works of art from about 4,500 artists that are being offered for […]

Google Fiber, the super-high-speed Internet and cable TV service that debuted in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., in the fall of 2012, is now spreading to another 28 neighborhoods in those communities as part of its growing rollout. For residents in the 28 additional neighborhoods, Google Fiber has set up deadline dates to […]

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is celebrating its one-year anniversary on the Martian surface as the space agency looks forward to more amazing discoveries as the rover begins its second full year of exploration. So far, the rover and its two-year planned mission have brought back incredible finds to scientists back on Earth, including the discovery […]

Google Android users who often misplace their phones can now rejoice: Google will unveil a service later in August that will allow users to track and find their lost or misplaced Android devices, even if they stuck are under furniture in the living room or under the seat of their car. The new service, the […]