Todd R. Weiss

Google Chrome desktop Web browser users are just now receiving one of the coolest features that’s been available to Android smartphone users since June of 2012—the ability to get useful, just-in-time information at a glance through the innovative Google Now service. Google Now for desktop Chrome users has been rumored since March of 2013, when […]

Government requests for information about users in criminal investigations have risen by more than 120 percent since 2009 when Google began tallying such figures, according to the latest global transparency report issued by the company. “Though our number of users has grown throughout the time period, we’re also seeing more and more governments start to […]

Google’s innovative $35 Chromecast television dongle often gets cool new features, but a new add-on from Google’s Chrome Experiments project is slated to be a big hit because it lets users wirelessly display the photos from their smartphones right onto the screen of their digital televisions. That’s the idea behind Photowall for Chromecast, a new […]

Google Debunks Top 10 Google Glass Myths by Todd R. Weiss Myth 1: Glass Is the Ultimate Distraction From the Real World Nonsense, says Google. Instead, Glass allows you to look up and engage with the world rather than look down at your phone and become isolated. “That’s why Glass is off by default and […]

If you’re an IT security expert, Google is asking for your help in making the Internet safer for everyone. The search giant has just posted a “Security Advice Survey” online, asking IT security experts for their best tips and tricks about how to stay safe on the Internet—from not clicking on links in emails to […]

The presence of “hate speech” online, where a person or group posts hateful and ugly comments about other persons, countries, religions or groups, has been around on the Internet since its widespread use by the public started about 1994. Hate between humans and cultures is sadly nothing new in our world. But to help fight […]

The seventh annual Google I/O developers conference—the most important and hotly awaited Google developer event of the spring—has just launched its Website for the June 25-26 gathering, but this year there are some new rules in store for application developers who might want to attend. The biggest change, and the one that will be welcomed […]

Google’s Cultural Institute has just unveiled a new online exhibit about the fascinating colonial history of Nigeria as part of the Institute’s efforts to preserve cultures that are in danger of being forgotten in the future. In the new exhibit, Nigeria’s Pan-Atlantic University presents its collection of rare historical documents and photographs spanning the years […]

With all the critical and valuable data that businesses generate today, they’d do themselves huge favors if they took advantage of all that information to better connect with consumers by sharing the fascinating stories behind the data. That’s the conclusion of a March 26 post by Daniel Waisberg, an analytics advocate from the Google Analytics […]

Google’s DoubleClick ad platform is looking to teach digital marketers how to use DoubleClick more effectively to help their businesses generate more clicks and more revenue through a series of free webinars being offered through June. The webinars will range from the fundamentals of DoubleClick Campaign Manager (DCM) for rookies, presentations on platform changes from […]