Todd R. Weiss

Google has become so much a part of our lives that it is everywhere. It’s in the emails we send when using Gmail accounts, it’s in the documents we create when using Google Docs, and it’s in the online ads seen by millions of people every day as they do Google searches using the powerful […]

A funny thing happened when Google accidentally unveiled and retracted its new Keep note-taking app on March 17 before launching it for real on March 20. Google’s post-and-pull move apparently gave competitor Evernote some good publicity as an alternative to Keep. As a result, Evernote has been seeing an increase in downloads and usage, Phil […]

Back in 2008, Google proposed tapping into unused television broadcasting frequencies called “white spaces” to push Internet access to rural areas in the United States where getting such service was difficult and expensive. Now Google is proposing a trial white space project in South Africa where the company wants to see if it can use […]

Google Glass users be forewarned—if you’re thinking about wearing any kind of head-mounted displays while driving on roadways in West Virginia, you might want to reconsider. A West Virginia state legislator has introduced a bill, House Bill 3057, that would make the use of head-mounted displays such as Google Glass illegal on the state’s roads […]

The Federal Aviation Administration is considering flight rules changes that would allow U.S. airline passengers to use their e-reader devices during takeoffs and landings, as well as during flights, under proposals that are being evaluated by the agency. The more flexible rules are being considered by an industry working group announced last August by the […]

Google is now displaying another 2,000 works of art in its growing and evolving Google Art Project, a Website that displays amazing and hard-to-find sculptures, paintings, drawings and even folk and street art from around the world. The additional artworks come to the collection courtesy of another 30 art museums that are joining the online […]

Google, which bought the well-known Frommer’s Travel Guide book series last year, is now ending the print versions of the well-known guides as it moves to all-electronic versions. The apparent move was reported in a March 21 story by Skift, a travel publishing Website. “The last two Frommer’s books to roll off the presses were […]

Google’s competitors in Europe are escalating their pressure on European authorities to finally file formal antirust charges against Google after an investigation that has been going on there since November 2010. The latest move from some of Google’s rivals is a joint letter from 11 Web-based companies that was sent to the European Union, demanding […]

Google is not bringing Chrome and Android together, despite replacing the leader of its Android mobile group with a senior vice president of Chrome, Google Apps and Android. That’s the opinion of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who made the remark while on a business tour of India and other nations, according to a March […]

Google has now officially unveiled its new Google Keep note-taking application for Android, three days after it was apparently released too early and then quickly retracted. Keep’s debut was announced in a March 20 post by Katherine Kuan, a Google software engineer, on the Google Official Blog. “Every day we all see, hear or think […]

Google’s Chrome browser once again has an option for the addition of an RSS extension after a “mistake” late last week removed the RSS subscription extension from the Chrome Web Store. A note about the errant deletion of the extension was placed in the Chromium developer’s Website March 19 by Finnur Thorarinsson, the developer of […]

Open-Xchange is again expanding its longstanding mail server product with more features, this time adding capabilities for users to create and edit documents without having to leave the company’s recently released and Web-based App Suite. The new document-creation and -editing features are part of Open-Xchange’s new OX Text offering, which will be available starting April […]