Todd R. Weiss

Google Fiber’s rollout of high-speed Internet and cable television services is expanding with the announcement that Olathe, Kan., will be the next community to receive Google Fiber. “A few minutes ago, the Olathe City Council approved an agreement to bring Google Fiber to their city,” Rachel Hack, community manager for Google Fiber, wrote in a […]

Google Maps Street View has just added spectacular images of the world’s tallest mountain peaks, including Everest and Kilimanjaro, to its ever-expanding collection of photos from destinations around the globe. The peaks were among destinations that Google’s Street View teams wanted to highlight for some time, Dan Fredinburg, a Google adventurer and expedition team member, […]

Chromebooks will soon be offered for sale in six more nations around the world as Google and its Chromebook manufacturing partners continue their efforts to popularize the smaller, lighter and inexpensive Internet-centric computers. “Starting Tuesday, the Acer, HP and Samsung Chromebooks will begin rolling out in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands,” Caesar […]

Google apparently released a new Google Keep note-taking app a bit earlier than planned on March 17, and then quickly pulled it from distribution—leaving nary a trace. The mysterious app had appeared briefly on the Google Drive data-sharing service after its debut was first spotted by Carlos Jeurissen, an 18-year-old student and software developer in […]

Google Reader isn’t the only RSS product to be getting the ax at Google. The RSS extension for Google’s Chrome Web browser has also been cut, which means that Chrome users can no longer use it to quickly subscribe to RSS feeds as they browse the Web. The demise of the RSS Chrome extension comes […]

Google has removed at least four apps from its Google Play Store that had allowed users to block advertisements that appear when using their Android devices. The reports of the ad-blocking app removals have come from the developers of several of the apps, including at least one developer, Adblock Plus, which issued a March 14 […]

Google will end its Google Reader RSS service July 1, citing declining usage. Fans of the news and information aggregation service, however, were quick to criticize Google’s decision, with at least one online petition collecting almost 50,000 signatures within 24 hours of its creation on Change.org. Several other petitions also were created and are gaining […]

Google is offering a new series of “how-to” articles and videos to help the owners of hacker Websites regain control of their online properties and keep the Internet safer for users. The project was put together by Google to explain the technical and procedural steps that have to be followed to halt the malicious activities […]

Google Glass has been making headlines since last June, but the search giant is continuing to give potential users a clearer vision into what they can actually do with the innovative, wearable computer by putting several potential third-party apps on display at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference. In a demonstration at SXSW, several cool […]

Google Now, the cool, helpful and just-in-time service that delivers an expanding variety of travel, weather and other information to Android mobile users as they need it, is reportedly now under development for desktop users as well. An early glimpse of the upcoming feature was posted on Google+ by a French developer, Francois Beaufort. He […]

Google will pay a $7 million settlement to end a U.S. government probe into its Street View imaging program, which for three years collected personal information on users wirelessly as the Street View vehicles drove around taking photographs. The proposed settlement was reported March 8 in an article by The Washington Post, based on information […]

Google Glass apparently isn’t the only wearable high-tech gadget being explored by the company. A talking shoe is also being developed, but this project is only for show and won’t eventually be sold to consumers. The talking shoe—which isn’t a shoe phone like the one used by Maxwell Smart in the “Get Smart” series, by […]