Todd R. Weiss

When a Google Glass device is broken down to its essence, the component parts reportedly total about $80, which is far less than the $1,500 list price for one of the early “Explorer” versions of the controversial eyewear-mounted computers. That’s the unofficial conclusion of a “teardown,” or disassembly of a Glass unit by the Website, […]

Google is being sued over its alleged policies that force smartphone makers to load lesser-desired Google apps on devices so that they can also pre-load popular Google apps such as YouTube on devices that run Android. The lawsuit, filed May 1 in federal court in San Jose, Calif., was brought by the owner of an […]

Helping computers better learn the context of words so that they can more accurately interpret what is being sought or said is the goal of a project being undertaken by Google’s research team. To help researchers find improved ways to help machines figure out the context of searches and inquiries, Google is contributing data sets […]

Google Apps has just released mobile versions of its Docs and Sheets applications so that mobile users can create or edit documents on their devices while on the move. A mobile Slides app is also in the pipeline, but is not yet ready for release. The three new mobile apps for Android and for iOS […]

See and Hear France Through a Google Maps Walking Tour by Todd R. Weiss Meet Christophe First, we are introduced to our guide, Christophe, by clicking the blue “Start your walk” button and walking with him over the bridge to start our night tour. Follow the green line to start seeing the sights. Mister P’s […]

Google is again looking at how specially modified contact lenses could be built to help people with medical problems—this time potentially fitting contacts with tiny cameras that could someday help visually impaired people get sound cues about what the contacts “see” in their path. A patent application by Google for the technology was recently revealed […]

To have a Website, you need a catchy and descriptive domain name. And to find the perfect domain name for your company or services, you have to spend some time researching available names and picking just the right one for your online identity. So once you get that domain name, then you definitely want to […]

Two French new media artists and developers have been named as the winners of the first DevArt competition sponsored by Google and London’s Barbican multi-arts and conference venue. The duo of Cyril Diagne and Béatrice Lartigue of France were selected for their project, “Les métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia,” an interactive and animated “poetic adventure” built […]

Google Fiber recently began testing a free outdoor public WiFi system outside the Crown Center mixed-use development in Kansas City, Mo., as part of an experiment to build more public WiFi systems in the Kansas City area. A Google spokesman confirmed the presence of the new experimental WiFi system after an article about the network […]

Google must now pay the French government as much as $1.3 billion in previously unpaid taxes, following a government investigation into the company’s tax liabilities owed to French authorities. The owed tax money was revealed in an April 28 report by Forbes, which stated that the exact amount of the additional taxes owed by Google […]