Todd R. Weiss

Google’s Street View project now covers 50 nations around the world, providing images taken by Street View vehicles that are driven up and down countless thousands of miles of local streets as part of the company’s global mapping efforts. Two countries, Hungary and the Kingdom of Lesotho in Africa, are the latest being added to […]

LAS VEGAS—With the arrival of a new CEO in January, CA Technologies has been working hard in the last three months to refocus its messages about what it offers to its customers. Here at its CA World 2013 annual user conference, the company couldn’t make its go-to-market plans any clearer. CA, which began operations in […]

Google is being hit with an $189,167 fine in Germany for collecting user data without fully disclosing the practice as Google StreetView vehicles combed German streets collecting information for its maps back from 2007 to 2010. The fine was handed down by Johannes Caspar, the data-protection supervisor in Hamburg, according to an April 23 report […]

Google Maps can take Website visitors to amazing places for adventures and exploration or to see beautiful places and cool possibilities around the world. And it’s all done using the magic of the Google Maps API, which allows Website builders to bring “life” to maps and give them new uses, meanings and interpretations. Here are […]

Google Glass is now being shipped and the first recipients have quickly begun unwrapping their prized new $1,500 possessions, setting them up and starting to use them in their daily lives, while excitedly posting their impressions on social media sites. Several of the first Glass users, including Brandon Allgood, the chief technology officer of a […]

Google Fiber has chosen Provo, Utah, as its latest target community for its high-speed Internet and cable television services. The announcement comes just eight days after Google unveiled its plans to bring Google Fiber to Austin, Texas. The Provo project would be the third U.S. community to get Fiber service so far since introducing the […]

Google is bumping up the enterprise management tools for its Chrome Web browser as part of an effort to drive Chrome’s increased adoption by businesses around the world. The upgrades were unveiled in an April 16 post by Cyrus Mistry, the senior product manager for Chrome for Business and Education, on the Google Chrome Blog. […]

Google’s Play store is getting a new capability that allows app developers to better showcase their new apps when consumers search for apps using their mobile devices in the app-filled store. App developers can now upload screen shots of their apps running on 7-inch and 10-inch tablets so consumers can see what those apps will […]

Google set up its Google Person Finder Website in Boston shortly after the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line April 15 to make it easier for survivors at the scene to communicate with worried friends and family members in the hours after the horrific terrorist attack. By the afternoon of April 16, information […]

Google Glass will soon be out on the streets in select communities as the first units have begun shipping to developers who signed up to buy them at last June’s Google I/O conference. Google announced the first shipments in an April 15 email to attendees of that conference, advising them that the first devices are […]

Google has proposed an antitrust settlement with the European Commission that apparently satisfies the European regulators and that will help bring about the end of a two-year investigation into antitrust charges against the search company. The proposed settlement was reported April 14, according to a story in The New York Times that was written based […]

Google has created an “Inactive Account manager” tool to allow account holders to manage their digital lives, including the availability of their stored photos, videos, emails and more, in the event of death or long inactivity. The new tool was unveiled in an April 11 post by Andreas Tuerk, a Google product manager, on the […]