Todd R. Weiss

Google has released the latest version 1.8.1 of the Google App Engine, incorporating “significant changes” that have come through the continued development of the application. The new release comes on the heels of May’s Google I/O Developers Conference, where many of the latest features and improvements were unveiled, wrote Chris Ramsdale, product manager for Google […]

Google says it has been monitoring a series of email phishing campaigns going on in Iran just as the nation is preparing for its national elections on June 14. “For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns aimed at compromising the accounts owned by tens of thousands of Iranian users,” […]

Google is asking the United States government to allow it to report more fully on more of the government requests for private data that it receives, especially in light of the recent National Security Agency PRISM program controversy. In a June 11 letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, Google’s […]

Google has announced the recipients of its 2013 Ph.D. Fellowship program, which the search giant promotes as a way to gain new insights and innovations from some of the best minds in colleges and universities around the world. “We are extremely excited to announce the 2013 Global Google Ph.D. Fellows,” wrote Michael Rennaker of Google […]

Google Glass engineer Mike LeBeau loves his job working on the voice interface for Glass so much that he decided to show off—in a new YouTube video he created with several friends—some of the cool things Glass can do. LeBeau shared the video on his Google+ page June 10 to exhibit some of the many […]

Google is expanding its mapping services with the acquisition of the Waze crowd-based traffic and navigation app for mobile devices. The transaction was rumored in various reports on June 10, but Google unveiled the finished deal on June 11 in a post on the Official Google Blog. “To help you outsmart traffic, today we’re excited […]

Google thinks that stuck-out tongues, wrinkled noses, frowns and funny faces can help future smartphone owners keep their phones more secure from intruders under a patent application the company filed on June 4. The facial recognition patent application is for a process that would recognize a user’s unique facial expressions, including a stuck-out tongue, a […]

Google will pay $1.3 billion to acquire Israeli community-based traffic and navigation app startup Waze to add to Google’s growing portfolio of popular and revenue-enhancing mapping tools. The two companies have agreed to the deal in principal, but it has not yet been completed, according to a Reuters report that quoted sources who are familiar […]

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa.—When it comes to technology, it may not be a stretch to call the Amish high-tech. True, they don’t typically use computers, have high-speed Internet connections in their homes or maintain Facebook and other social media profiles. But what they are doing is modifying and using such things as kitchen blenders that run on […]

Google is now offering its Google Maps Engine API to developers so they can build consumer and business applications that incorporate the features and flexibility of Google Maps. The new capabilities were announced June 5 in a post by Jen Kovnats, product manager for Google Maps for Business, on the Official Google Enterprise Blog. “Maps […]

Google’s DoubleClick digital advertising and marketing platform for online sellers is getting some key upgrades, including a new ad campaign manager and social media integration with Wildfire. But there’s more to come, too, with a planned new Google Web Designer tool that’s being built to make it easier for users to create alluring content and […]

Google’s latest Chrome Web browser just received a number of security patches and fixes as part of the latest Version 27.0.1453.110 stable release for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS operating systems. The new stable release was unveiled in a June 4 post by Karen Grunberg of the Chrome Team on the Chrome Releases Blog. […]