Todd R. Weiss

Online maps bring a world of adventure with the help of Google Maps APIs that are used by developers around the world to create interesting, compelling and fun-to-use Websites. With that in mind, it’s time for another eWEEK roundup of some of the coolest sites recently discovered online that incorporate Google Maps APIs and use […]

Google Reader, the simple, sturdy, reliable and basic RSS reader loved by millions of users around the world, will be killed off by Google July 1 as part of a winnowing process for lesser-used Google services. Google had announced the closure of Reader back in March, which set off some online protests, the creation of […]

France and five other European nations are putting Google on notice about privacy, telling the search giant that if it doesn’t amend its policies about how it deals with users’ data within 90 days, large fines will be assessed. The deadline was issued by France’s National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL), which is […]

Google just released several security and stability fixes for its Chrome Web browser Version 27 and for its Chrome OS 27 operating system for Chromebooks and other devices. The Chrome 27 browser Stable Channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.116 for Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms, according to a June 18 post by Karen Grunberg […]

Google is asking the secretive United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow the company to disclose more information about the data inquiries Google receives from U.S. government agencies. In a six-page motion filed June 18 by attorneys for Google, the company said it is making the request so that it can fight misleading media […]

Google has now expanded its native language support for Google Drive with another 18 languages to extend its online services to an even broader audience of home and business users. That means that foreign language support for Drive is now available in 65 languages, according to a June 18 post by Ian Hill, project manager […]

Google’s Chromebook Web-enabled laptop machines will now be sold in Walmart and Staples stores, which will mean that the devices will now be available to consumers in more than 6,600 retail stores around the world. The announcement, which adds Walmart and Staples stores to the existing Chromebook retail outlets through Best Buy and Amazon.com, was […]

Google is experimenting with a series of high-altitude balloons over New Zealand to build a high-speed Internet network that could be used to bring affordable Internet service to far-flung locations around the world for the first time. The experiment, called Project Loon, is being touted as a high-tech way to create Internet connections for two-thirds […]

Google is retiring its Chrome Frame plug-in that allows users of older versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to see newer content that wasn’t built to be displayed on older browsers. The Chrome Frame plug-in will cease to be supported by Google starting in January 2014, wrote Robert Shield, a Google Chrome engineer, in a […]

Google has again expanded its Street View image collection of photographs from around the world, this time with spectacular new images of famous destinations in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the United States and Canada. The images are being provided to offer more information to viewers as they plan vacations or simply explore the world from […]

Google has been working on WebRTC projects for some time, but now the search giant has included it in an experimental video game that will allow players to see, hear and communicate with each other using only a Web browser. And even if video games aren’t your style, the technology used in the Cube Slam […]

Google Android users can now use gestures to search on their devices on many more languages than just English. The latest version 2.1.1 of Gesture Search, released by Google on the Play Store June 12, now can help users find information on their Android phones and tablets in some 40 different languages, according to a […]