Todd R. Weiss

Innovative Google Maps apps are always being developed by creative designers for a wide range of uses, including real-time events that are in the news, such as the 2012 DA14 asteroid that just passed within 17,200 miles of the Earth Feb. 15. But what if 2012 DA14 had hit the Earth? What kind of damage […]

Google Now, the service that gives consumers timely and perfectly timed information on their Android smartphones and tablets just as they need it, is again getting a new round of features. Users can now instantly access movie ratings before they head to a local theater and can also receive their tickets right on the screen […]

Google’s Play store is being assailed online by an Australian software developer who alleges that the company is sharing too much personal information about buyers who come to the Google Play store to purchase apps. The developer, Dan Nolan, wrote in a Feb. 13 post on his Internet Hugbox blog that he accidentally discovered the […]

Google is suing BT, a British telecommunications company, alleging that BT illegally violated four of its patents, including for technologies such as networking and Web-enabled phone calls. The lawsuit was filed Feb. 13 in a California federal court by Google and its Motorola Mobility unit against BT Group Plc, according to an article by Reuters. […]

Google’s search ad-click revenue from the spreading use of tablet computers alone in the United States will increase in 2013 to $5 billion, based on new analysis by Marin Software. One of the key findings of the new report is that by the end of 2013, tablets will account for about 20 percent of Google’s […]

Google has awarded its first-ever Google App Engine Research Awards to seven projects that will use the App Engine platform’s abilities to work with large data sets for academic and scientific research. The new program, which was announced in the spring of 2012, brought in many proposals for a wide variety of scientific research, including […]

Google+ Hangouts will soon be used again by President Barack Obama for the second time in his presidency, while the crew of the International Space Station will use it for the first time later this month to take questions from citizens about life in Earth’s orbit. Obama’s Google+ Hangouts session will come at 4:50 p.m. […]

Google is hoping to inspire the next generation of open-source developers by again holding its annual Summer of Code program to invite college students to learn about the world of open-source code development. This is the ninth year for the program, which since 2005 has involved some 6,000 college and university students from more than […]

Google Search continues to maintain its huge global lead in the search engine marketplace, but the latest monthly statistics from ComScore show the Russian search engine Yandex.com pulling ahead of Microsoft’s Bing search engine at the end of 2012. The new global ComScore rankings for December 2012 show Google leading all search companies with 114.7 […]

As Snowstorm Nemo assaulted the Northeast from New York City to Boston and beyond, New York City’s public radio station, WNYC, got to work putting together a real-time storm-tracking map app using Google’s Maps API. The map was assembled to keep residents in the New York metropolitan area abreast of the powerful storm as it […]

After Google recently made a deal with French publishers to invest $80 million to help them promote their online content and show them new ways to increase their revenues, Google officials might have believed they had finally put out a firestorm that had been brewing for some time. Instead, Google is now being pressured by […]

Google is looking to add to its mobile ad revenues with enhancements to its AdWords tool. AdWords, which lets Google send out ads to online users on behalf of advertisers, will soon get useful new capabilities that will serve up the ads with proper formatting whether they are going to tablet computers, smartphones or other […]