Todd R. Weiss

Google has just made its Google Translate language translation app for Android faster and expanded its coverage to several additional foreign languages, including Malay and Ukranian. The Translate app, which was introduced in 2010, allows users to speak into an Android device to get a translation into another language, or to use a built-in handwriting […]

Google has brought together its former Google Play Magazines app and its Google Currents app to create a new Google Play Newsstand app where Android users can get all the news and stories they want to read in one convenient place. “Staying up on the news can be a daunting task,” wrote Mussie Shore, product […]

Google is giving its Google Wallet customers in the United States another convenient way to make purchases using the funds in their Wallet accounts through its new Google Wallet Card, a debit card with no annual or monthly fees. The new Google-branded debit card will let Wallet customers take money out through ATMs, make purchases […]

Google’s Civic information API, which developers have used to create helpful apps so that voters can easily find their polling places, is now gaining new capabilities that will allow developers to directly connect voters to their elected leaders. The expanded capabilities were outlined by Jonathan Tomer, a Google software engineer, in a Nov. 19 post […]

Google’s Street View crews have wandered all across national parks and historical sites in the United States and Canada to now bring many famous vistas and features to the screens of armchair Internet visitors from more than 44 national parks. The new imagery, which includes Mount Rushmore in South Dakota and spectacular Sequoia trees in […]

The Google Glass project has unveiled an upcoming new Glass Development Kit, which will allow developers to gain even broader control and innovation in their next designs and features for Google Glass apps. A “sneak peek” of the new GDK was announced Nov. 19 at a Google Hackathon for developers, according to a Google+ post […]

Google is taking the very unusual step of replacing an image in its extensive Street View photo collection after a grieving father expressed his anguish that the online photo captured the scene of his son’s 2009 murder. The case emerged recently through news reports from KTVU Channel 2 FOX television in Oakland, Calif., which reported […]

Google is paying a $17 million settlement to 37 U.S. states to resolve allegations that the company violated consumer privacy by using tracking cookies to capture the searching habits of Apple Safari Web browser users from 2011 to 2012. The settlement, which also includes an agreement with Washington, D.C., was announced by New York Attorney […]

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his now famous Gettysburg Address 150 years ago today while standing on the hallowed site in central Pennsylvania. On this anniversary of Lincoln’s speech, Google has brought together an exhibit of five handwritten versions of the 272-word address in an online gallery where visitors can view them and see their […]

Google is opening six temporary stores around the United States to showcase its latest high-tech gadgets, just in time for the Christmas holiday season. The stores will be filled with Nexus 7 tablets, the latest Chromebooks, the Chromecast video dongle and more so that shoppers can check out the products and place online orders on […]