Todd R. Weiss

Google has released the first scant details about its upcoming Google I/O 2013 Developers Conference by posting a bare-bones schedule for its annual code and innovation love-in and training ground. The sixth annual I/O conference will kick off May 15 in San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center West, at 800 Howard Street, and run through May […]

Google has been testing Chromebook-equipped store kiosks that make it easier for businesses to help their customers and employees check merchandise stock, place orders or get more information while shopping or working. The kiosks use something Google calls “Managed Public Sessions” to allow employee and customer use of the devices without the need for logging […]

Google has launched an electronic-payment system in Kenya so that bus riders there can pay with a card rather than with cash, which makes it easier for passengers and provides new streams of consumer information for Google. The payment system, called BebaPay, is being run in partnership with East Africa’s largest bank, Equity Bank, according […]

Google Maps has been in the process of moving to a new default JavaScript Maps API Version 3 since May 2010, but the move is now being delayed for six more months due to slow developer adoption. The change had been scheduled to take place on May 19, when the JavaScript Maps API Version 2 […]

Google has finally unveiled its cool, useful Now app for iPhone and iPad users that offers new ways to get information as they need it, right on their mobile devices. “Google Now for iPhone and iPad is available as part of the updated Google Search app,” wrote Andrea Huey, a Google engineer, in an April […]

Google is shuttering its Meebo chat and content-sharing toolbar services on June 6, less than a year after acquiring the company in June of 2012. The Meebo team announced the closing on the Meebo Website. “Five years ago, we launched the Meebo Bar to bring community, engagement and revenue to publisher sites,” the post states. […]

Google Glass apps development can now get under way in a big way, now that Google has released the open-source Android-based kernel code for its Glass project. The Linux code was released on April 27 on the Google Glass kernel source Web page for now, but another Website will likely be established for the code, […]

Google will make changes to how it displays its search results in Europe to mollify European regulators who have been investigating antitrust allegations against the company since 2010. Under the deal, Google will provide better labeling of its own promoted content and will improve how it displays links to competitors’ online ads, according to an […]

Google’s latest transparency report on government censorship requests coming in from around the world related to content on Google Websites shows the rate rising by 26.2 percent by the end of 2012. “From July to December 2012, we received 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content—an increase from the 1,811 requests to remove […]

Not so fast, Chrome OS developers. Google’s latest developer’s release of its Chrome OS device operating system is causing problems for Google Docs users, so developers are being urged to revert to an earlier version until the issues are resolved. The problem was unveiled in an April 23 post by Danielle Drew of the Google […]

Google Fiber started bringing its high-speed gigabit Internet and cable television services to the Kansas City area in the fall of 2012 and now wants to leverage that investment by getting more local businesses online to help drive the local economy. To do that, Google is inviting local Kansas City businesses to create their own […]

LAS VEGAS— Ram Varadarajan, the general manager of New Business Innovation at CA Technologies, knows a little bit about innovating and growing a successful software company. Varadarajan founded Arcot Systems, an authentication and fraud management company, in 1997 and led it until it was acquired by CA in 2010. Since joining CA after the sale […]