Todd R. Weiss

Google has quietly acquired seven companies that specialize in robotics as the company appears poised to head off into another intriguing high-tech direction, just as it has with self-driving cars, Google Glass and other Google initiatives. The road map to robotics at Google was revealed in a Dec. 4 report by The New York Times, […]

Driving while wearing Google Glass earned a Southern California woman a traffic ticket back in October, and now she is taking her case to court, arguing that she was only wearing the device and not using it when she was stopped. In a telephone interview with eWEEK, Cecelia Abadie, 44, of Temecula, Calif., said that […]

Google knows that if a company’s customers can’t get to the company’s Website using their mobile devices, they can’t buy anything from the site. And to fix that very vexing problem, Google has added a new “Smartphone errors” tool to its Webmaster Tools arsenal so that Web developers can find and fix coding errors that […]

Google’s Chrome Beta Web browser now offers mobile and desktop developers several new features, including expanded emulation and screencasting capabilities as well as new debugging tools that will help developers test and debug their apps more quickly. The new tools were announced in a Dec. 3 post by Pavel Feldman, a Chrome software engineer, on […]

To compensate some Google Glass Explorers who recently were kept out of the online Glass accessory store due to a glitch, Google is offering to sell them a second Glass device to use themselves or share with a friend. And in other news sure to be welcomed by Glass users, the Google Play Music app […]

Google is now offering its Google Compute Engine services to all customers as part of a wider “general availability” offering that features lower prices and easier migration and maintenance services for users. Google Compute Engine was previously available in preview mode to some customers as its development continued and was refined. “Today, Google Compute Engine […]

Google will host its first-ever “Hangout-a-thon” on Dec. 3 to allow online visitors to make donations to their favorite charities as part of the annual “Giving Tuesday,” which was begun in 2012 by New York City’s 92nd Street Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association (92nd Street Y). The second annual event helps to raise […]

Google’s Play store is continuing its Cyber Weekend sale that started on Black Friday and turning it into a Cyber Monday sale with special offers and pricing on the latest Nexus 7, Chromecast TV dongles, best-selling ebooks and more. “Take advantage of our limited-time deals on books, games, movies, music, magazines and more as we […]

Venice, Italy, the city of canals, water and beautiful and historic architecture, is now spotlighted through the gorgeous color photography of Google Maps’ Street View project for online visitors around the world. The images throughout Venice were captured by a team of Google workers using the company’s special Trekker backpack cameras, which collect many individual […]

Google is again expanding its sales of Google Glass to waiting developers who want to buy early units so they can use them and create innovative new apps that could help expand the future Glass marketplace. The expanded Glass availability to select developers apparently began toward the end of November and became publicized by recipients […]