Todd R. Weiss

With a new Hobbit movie soon to be released, Google is getting Middle-earth fans ready with an interactive, multi-media, exploratory adventure prepared specially for Chrome Web browser users. The project, called “Journey through Middle-earth,” is a game-based adventure that was created to showcase the Google’s Chrome Experiments initiative, which combines audio, video, networking and more […]

Google has unveiled two useful new tools for developers, a new Dart 1.0 software development kit (SDK) and a new portable native client that lets developers build Web applications once for any hardware platform and then deploy it for use on any other platform. The Dart 1.0 SDK is a cross-browser, open-source toolkit that aims […]

Google Apps users will see some noticeable changes in 2014 when they log in to use their apps, including a consistent look for the sign-in pages for all of the apps. But what they’ll also see is something that may not make them as happy—they’ll be losing the ability to customize their Google Apps sign-in […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser now offers a cool new plug-in that brings voice search capabilities to Chrome for desktop users. The Google Voice Search Hotword plug-in was released as a beta version on Nov. 26 in the Google Play store and can be installed into a user’s Chrome desktop browser by downloading it to his […]

Google continues to work to get the European Union to agree to the company’s latest offer to settle ongoing antitrust concerns in Europe, just a month after an EU leader said publicly that it appears that a workable settlement is approaching. But competitors, including Microsoft, Expedia and British search services company, Foundem, continue to disagree, […]

As the TED 2014 “Ads Worth Spreading” campaign gets under way, Google’s YouTube unit is helping showcase the most creative and innovative video advertisements before the award winners are determined and announced in March 2014. The awards, which are in their fourth year, are presented by the group that puts on TED Conferences (Technology, Education, […]

File this under the “you don’t see this everyday” technology news—Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt just posted a step-by-step primer on how users can dump their iPhones and move to an Android smartphone. Schmidt’s very detailed instructions were posted on his personal Google+ page on Nov. 24 as a self-described guide for friends who apparently […]

A deal between Google and an eyeglasses vendor could be in the works to help Google sell prescription versions of Google Glass when the eyewear-mounted computer devices are expected to go on sale in 2014. “VSP Global—a nationwide vision benefits provider that also makes frames and lenses—is talking with Google about making more fashionable frames […]

Google Shopping has undergone some shopper-friendly tweaks, just in time for the holiday shopping that is about to start as Thanksgiving arrives on Nov. 28. The online shopping improvements made on the Google Shopping web site include a myriad of new features, including new “short lists” for popular item categories, improved browsing capabilities and 360-degree […]

Google has released the latest Stable Version 31 of its Chrome OS operating system while also launching a new beta Version 32 of its Chrome Web browser that includes a host of new features being developed for future Stable releases of Chrome. The new Stable edition of Chrome OS, which is officially known as Version […]