Todd R. Weiss

Google has given Google Maps developers another helpful tool for their Maps-building arsenal now that the JavaScript API supports the GeoJSON format. The addition means that Google Maps developers will be able to use GeoJSON to encode a wide range of geographic data structures in their maps. And what that means, according to Google, is […]

Google has just made improvements in its Google Calendar API that make it easier for enterprises to schedule employee activities more accurately through new “event IDs,” which are used to help differentiate different activities. By incorporating this change, businesses will have an easier time managing calendars for multiple employees because the changes will be directly […]

ROTTERDAM, Holland—To make it easier for its customers to build and distribute enterprise apps for employees, enterprise app platform vendor Mendix has added a collaboration-inspired software layer it calls AppCloud to its app building platform. AppCloud is designed to be a central place in the app building process where developers, users, partners and others can […]

Google has refreshed its free online Webmaster Academy course to provide even more tips and information to beginning Webmasters to help them improve their Website skills. The improved and updated Webmaster Academy, which was launched by Google two years ago, was announced by Mary Chen of the Webmaster outreach team in a March 18 post […]

It was to be the last time I traveled with my 5-year-old Lenovo T61 laptop running Windows XP because, hey, Windows XP support is ending April 8. So, perhaps, I wasn’t taking my usual care and precautions when I placed a cup of bubbling, cold Sprite right next to my open laptop as I was […]

Google announced the winners of its second annual Google Journalism Fellowships, which are awarded to eligible college students who want to dive deeper into digital journalism. In addition to the fellowships, Google also announced that it is collaborating with the European Journalism Centre to bring journalism education online through a free Web data journalism course […]

Google will be announcing a series of changes and new innovations for online advertisers in its Google AdWords program in a live online event on April 22. The presentation, which will be live-streamed at noon EDT April 22 on the Google AdWords Blog, will feature Jerry Dischler, the vice president of product management for AdWords, […]

Open-Xchange, which has been slowly adding capabilities to its cloud-based OX App Suite since 2013, has just added the OX Spreadsheet to the mix, giving users the ability to create spreadsheets that work with files from Microsoft Office and other office suites. The new OX Spreadsheet will let users edit and share spreadsheets wherever they […]

Google is donating 50 million hours of cloud computing time to the U.S. government to assist in a recently announced Climate Data Initiative that aims to help organizations and communities use public data to look at climate conditions in their areas. “Up until now, it’s been difficult for the public to locate detailed, timely data […]

VSP, the vision insurance vendor that will offer partial reimbursements for Google Glass frames and prescription lenses under a deal announced in January, is now getting a new facility in Maryland ready to make the lenses and assemble the units once Glass goes on sale to consumers. While no official release date has yet been […]