Todd R. Weiss

Google is sponsoring a “Doodle 4 Google” contest for K-12 students in the United States to encourage them to create spectacular doodles— one of which will be featured in the future on Google’s doodle-friendly home page. “Doodle 4 Google is the chance for young artists to think and dream big,” wrote Ryan Germick, the Doodle […]

Using a new Chromebox matched with Google Apps and Google+ Hangouts services, Google has launched its first ever Chromebox for meetings package to help businesspeople hold easier meetings over long distances in real time. “Chromebox for meetings brings together Google+ Hangouts and Google Apps in an easy-to-manage Chromebox, making it simpler for any company to […]

In a settlement that has taken some 39 months to reach, Google and the European Union (EU) have apparently brokered a deal that will end an antitrust investigation that has saddled Google in Europe since November 2010. The settlement, which still faces formal final approval by the EU and its regulatory arm, the European Commission […]

Google has finally brought its Google Now notification “card” feature to the latest version of its Chrome beta browser for desktop users, Version 33.0.1750.70 for Windows, Mac and Linux. The long-awaited inclusion of Google Now cards for desktop Chrome users was announced by Travis Skare, a Google software engineer, in a Feb. 3 post on […]

Google’s Chromecast television dongle is now expected to get a lot of attention from app developers with the release of a Google Cast Software Development Kit (SDK), which will allow a range of innovative software creations to be inspired for the devices. The release of the new Cast SDK was unveiled by Ambarish Kenghe, the […]

Google’s mysterious, four-story barge that’s apparently being developed in San Francisco Bay as a floating technology showroom for consumers since October 2013 continues to be in hot water with local and marine authorities. Now the barge, which was first noticed in the bay last year, must be moved from the area until it has secured […]

Last October, Google added a “reset browser settings” button to its Chrome Web browser so that users could easily restore control of their browsers if malicious software changed their user settings against their wishes. Now Google is upping the ante by automatically prompting users to use the reset button if it appears that their browser […]

To show off the gaming and entertainment promise for Google Glass, Google is working to create games that users can play on the head-mounted computing devices when they eventually go on sale to consumers later in 2014. With that in mind, Google engineers have created five Glass “mini-games” that are available now as preview versions […]

Winter Olympics fans who can’t get to the far-off games in Sochi, Russia, this year can now turn to their computers and tablets to explore some of the host country’s fascinating and little-seen cities and towns using new imagery that’s been added to Google’s Street View online collections. “With the eyes of winter sports fans […]

Google is continuing to drive the development of its Chrome Apps concept by introducing the first beta preview tools to help developers build Chrome Apps for mobile users. So far, Chrome Apps, which run separately from the Chrome browser as offline applications and don’t rely on having always-on access to a network connection, are only […]