Todd R. Weiss

What do monarch butterflies, history in Portsmouth, England, the soaring hills in San Francisco and the home towns of current Major League Baseball and National Hockey League players have in common? They’re all featured in cool, interesting Websites that use Google Maps APIs to share intriguing content with online visitors. With that in mind, it’s […]

Google is now accepting applications for its 2014 RISE (Roots in Science and Engineering) Awards, which are a series of $15,000 to $50,000 grants to nonprofit groups that work with K-12 students to increase their involvement with science and engineering studies. The awards are to be used by organizations to help create future scientists and […]

Google has unveiled a new beta API for marketers that will allow them to easily obtain real-time data about Websites and how they are being used and viewed by customers and visitors. The Real Time API beta is now available from Google Analytics to increase the amount of useful data that’s available about audiences, according […]

Google is sharing some of its coveted Google Glass eyewear-mounted computers with several film schools around the United States to see how they might inspire young filmmakers to use them. Plans for the loans of the devices through the Glass Creative Collective, which is a Google partnership with film and design schools, were unveiled in […]

Google has issued an assortment of software updates for its new Chromecast television dongle and for its existing Chrome Web browser, Chrome OS, Chrome for iOS and Chrome Beta for Android applications. The Chromecast update was announced in a July 31 post by Ambarish Kenghe, the Chromecast product manager, on the Chrome Releases Blog. “Today, […]

Google is giving WiFi systems inside Starbucks stores a big shot of network caffeine by bringing in new high-speed service, which promises to be 10 times faster than the existing AT&T systems it will replace. The WiFi deal for 7,000 company-owned Starbucks stores in the United States was announced by Kevin Lo, general manager of […]

Google Maps wants to let visitors now add their own gorgeous photos to the amazing maps that are constantly being created with Google Maps. “Today, we are launching a new community site called Views that makes it easy for people to publicly share their photos of places by contributing photo spheres to Google Maps (photo […]

Google apparently got a lot of people excited online in the last 24 hours by conducting an “experiment” that offered an unknown number of early Google Glass Explorer users a chance to invite a friend to also buy and use the eyewear-mounted computers. The emailed offers were mentioned by several early Google Glass users on […]

Google is pushing its new Nexus 7 tablets and updated Android 4.3 mobile operating system as tools for software developers to create and expand gaming apps for legions of new gamers. The idea is that the new tablets and Android OS “represent opportunities to take advantage of a growing number of users,” according to a […]

Google’s Zagat brand just got a redesigned Website and new apps for iOS and Android users, but it’s already being criticized by some users for its limited possibilities—it features only nine cities around the globe so far for its food and restaurant reviews. The search giant unveiled its relaunch of the Zagat brand July 29 […]

Google is making some changes in how people shop online using its services. First, Google is shutting down its stand-alone Google Shopper app on Aug. 30 as it transitions users to shop online using the browser-based Google Shopping for search on desktops or the Google Search app on mobile devices, according to a July 26 […]

Google’s YouTube unit will celebrate the special geekiness of geeks with its first-ever “Geek Week” event that will provide a wide range of special geek-aimed content from Aug. 4 to 10. “There’s never been a better time to be a geek,” according to a July 24 post by the YouTube team on the YouTube Official […]