Todd R. Weiss

The Google Cloud SQL service, which provides a database backbone for applications running on Google App Engine or Google Compute Engine, has gained key usability and security features, including automatic encryption and support for 500GB databases, and is now generally available to all customers as a managed SQL service on the Google Cloud Platform. Also […]

Google has updated its Google Search Appliance line with refinements that will help businesses find the information they need faster amid their vast stores of corporate data. The Google Search Appliance update to Version 7.2 was unveiled by Brent VerWeyst, product manager for Google Enterprise Search, in a Feb. 11 post on the Google Enterprise […]

Google, which late last year loudly protested the powerful revelations of spying on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA), is now asking Congress to update a key federal law so that government entities would have to obtain a warrant from a judge to peruse the contents of private communications. The request was made […]

Virgin Atlantic will use Google Glass to test how it and similar wearable computing innovations could help the airline assist passengers from their arrival at an airport through boarding and departure, and even with their in-flight experiences. The Glass experiments at Virgin Atlantic, which begin on Feb. 11, were unveiled by the airline in connection […]

Google isn’t just about code. It’s also about art and creativity and the expression of new ideas, which is why Google is now helping promote a global competition to find an up-and-coming developer artist who pushes the boundaries of art using code. That’s the idea behind a new Google initiative to join with the Barbican […]

In mid 1990s, the Internet was just beginning to take shape as a global business juggernaut. The Netscape Navigator Web browser had been launched, and it would soon be followed by Microsoft Internet Explorer, allowing anyone with a computer and modem to go online to see what there was to discover on the World Wide […]

The New York Police Department is eyeing two Google Glass devices to see how they might fit in to police work in the Big Apple. In an email reply to an eWEEK inquiry, Stephen Davis, a deputy commissioner for the NYPD confirmed that the department has obtained the devices and is now exploring how they […]

Google Cloud Platform has added support for HIPAA-mandated Business Associates Agreements (BAAs), which will help health care organizations comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act when using the Google Cloud Platform for their applications. The BAA support, which will allow organizations to build and deploy their health care applications on the Google Cloud […]

To help find and fix bugs in its vast software library, Google has expanded its Security Rewards Program to cover more Google software products, including all Chrome apps and extensions. The announcement about the program expansion was unveiled by Eduardo Vela Nava and Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team in a Feb. 4 post […]

Google is offering rewards of up to $150,000 each to security researchers who help the company identify and patch serious vulnerabilities in the code for Chrome OS as Google continues to sponsor competitions that help it root out bad code in its products. “Security is a core tenet of Chromium, which is why we hold […]