Todd R. Weiss

The rollout of Google Fiber ultra-high-speed Internet and cable television could get a huge boost in coverage areas across the United States as the company today unveiled plans to potentially bring its services to another 34 communities across nine metro areas of the nation. The 34 additional communities—which are clustered around the Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; […]

The Android rumor mill is alive with reports from anonymous sources that Google is pushing device makers to load the latest version of Android KitKat 4.4 on their new devices to boost the operating system and bring the latest new features to users. The reports are based on what is being called a leaked memo […]

Google is bringing SlickLogin into its fold to add the Israeli startup’s sound-based log-in authentication services to Google’s always-broadening reach in the IT marketplace. The acquisition was unveiled in a post on SlickLogin’s Website by the three founders of the startup. “Today we’re announcing that the SlickLogin team is joining Google, a company that shares […]

As he was preparing to find ideas for his bachelor’s thesis, Gregor Weichbrodt, a 25-year-old Berlin college student began reading a book called “Uncreative Writing.” That book, by poet and artist Kenneth Goldsmith, got him thinking about creative ways to use language, words and technology. What he soon came up with was the idea for […]

The Google Maps Android API Utility Library has been updated with two key new data visualization features—marker clustering and heat maps—that are aimed at improving the tools developers have when they are building apps for Google Maps on Android. The new tools were unveiled by Emma Yeap and Iris Uy, engineering practicum interns at Google […]

To help developers expand their expertise with Google’s Cloud Platform, the company will hold an all-day Google Cloud Platform Live event in San Francisco on March 25 to highlight new features, capabilities and updates that are now part of the ever-expanding cloud environment. As part of Google Cloud Platform Live, Google is making a limited […]

Google wants to help make Valentine’s Day a success for its millions of users, so it is offering up a list of suggestions for how people can use Google services to make this Valentine’s Day more memorable. Topping the list, according to a Feb. 12 post on the Google Lat Long Blog, is a suggestion […]

The 2014 Google Science Fair is now open for entries from 13- to 18-year-old students around the world who have great ideas for incredible science projects, and this year’s contest offers some great new prizes for the winners. The call for entries for this year’s fourth annual event was unveiled by Clare Conway of the […]

To make it easier for businesses of all sizes to deploy Google Chromebooks to their employees, Google’s Chrome team just announced a partnership with virtualization vendor VMware that will allow critical legacy Windows applications to be hosted and delivered via the cloud so that Chromebook users can access them through Web browsers. The move means […]

By design, Google has brought its superfast Google Fiber Gigabit Internet and cable television services to only a small number of communities in the United States as it observes how it is accepted and how it can be deployed on a larger scale over time. The beneficiaries of those Google Fiber experiments so far include […]