Todd R. Weiss

Google is reminding consumers that for the 13th year in a row, identity theft remains the top consumer complaint received by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, comprising 18.9 percent of the 2 million complaints received in 2012. And the answer to fighting identity theft, according to a Feb. 27 post on the Google Public Policy […]

Google Glass will be used in the future by real men, while smartphones and their need for finger-swipes over a glass screen will emasculate their users. That’s the view of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who made the comments Feb. 27 at the TED Conference in Long Beach, Calif., according to a story by Wired.com. In […]

Google’s Chrome team has released to newest stable version of the Chrome browser for Android devices, including the latest fixes, improvements and updates. The new Chrome 25.0.1364.123 for Android browser is now available for download through Google Play, according to a Feb. 27 post by Google’s Jason Kersey, on the Google Chrome Releases blog. “This […]

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS mobile operating systems will now compete with BlackBerry for dominance in mobile device deployments inside the U.S. Department of Defense as the agency moves further away from BlackBerry devices. In a new Commercial Mobile Device Implementation Plan announced Feb. 26 by the Pentagon, the DoD says it will continue to […]

Google+ users will now be able to access their other online iOS and Android apps more seamlessly and quickly due to a new Google+ Sign-In feature that’s just been unveiled. The new service allows users to tie their Google+ sign-in process to the sign-in processes for their most-used non-Google apps on their desktops or mobile […]

Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, is presenting $4.4 million to two groups that will use the funds to get some 1 billion people who don’t have Internet access today connected in Sub-Saharan Africa. The effort continues the company’s work to help bring access to people in countries around the world where Internet access is difficult to […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser is getting an improved spell checker to make work inside the browser easier and more accurate. The improvement is debuting in the latest beta version of the Chrome 26 browser, according to a Feb. 26 post by Rachel Petterson, a Google software engineer, on the Google Chrome blog. “Today’s Chrome Beta […]

Yahoo surprised many industry observers when it announced that as of June, employees will no longer be allowed to work from home so the company can rebuild camaraderie and strong interpersonal culture in the workplace. The news came from a confidential, internal Yahoo memo that was leaked Feb. 22 to All Things D. Jackie Reses, […]

Should Google have to delete information from its search results when that information is damaging to individuals who claim to be harmed by the content? That’s the question being asked in a European court as Spain’s data protection authority argues that Google should be required to remove damaging information about individuals from its search results, […]

Rumors of Google retail stores opening in major cities across the United States were dashed and directly denied by the chief of Google’s Android ecosystem, who met with reporters at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. “Google has no plans and we have nothing to announce,” Andy Rubin, who heads up the Android […]

Google’s Play Store is getting some competition from the owners of Russia’s Yandex Internet search engine in the race to sell apps to mobile phone carriers and device makers. The new Yandex Store is being populated with apps to specifically challenge Google Play as a source for device makers and carriers to find apps to […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser took a big step forward in January when a beta version was given speech-recognition capabilities that promised integration with Web applications to give users new ways of getting tasks accomplished. Now the latest stable release version of Google Chrome that’s available for free download, Version 25.0.1364.97, includes those voice-recognition capabilities for […]