Todd R. Weiss

AT&T has added four more towns in the United States to its growing list of communities that now feature high-speed 4G LTE wireless service. In a Dec. 10 announcement, AT&T unveiled the high-speed wireless capabilities for Auburn-Opelika (Birmingham), Ala.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Nashua, N.H.; and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The additions mean that AT&T’s 4G Long Term […]

Google’s Motorola Mobility unit, which was acquired in May for $12.5 billion, is closing its South Korean operations as Google continues to shrink the division to stave off its financial losses. The move was announced by Google and Motorola Mobility Dec. 10 in a statement issued by the company. “On December 10th, we began communicating […]

Google is working to make its Google+ social platform even more useful for users by encouraging participants to build and nurture online communities about the things they love, from sports to collecting to cooking and more. Google+ has been around since June 2011, when it was started by the company as an online offering to […]

Google is ending the free version of its Google Apps for Business online suite after deciding that most business users have been quickly outgrowing it and signing up for paid accounts that offer additional services. The move, which was announced by Clay Bavor, director of product management for Google Apps, in a Dec. 6 post […]

YouTube fans who love using their Apple iPads can now get their favorite media player back onto their devices with a newly-released Google YouTube app built and optimized for iPads. The YouTube app for iPads has been awaited ever since Apple debuted the new iOS 6 operating system in mid-September, which didn’t include a built-in […]

Google engineers are expanding Google Now to give travelers even more up-to-date travel information instantly and automatically, without their having to push a single button for updates on their Android mobile devices. The Now service is being broadened beyond simple up-to-the-minute weather alerts and upcoming appointments in a user’s current location to bring them helpful […]

NASA’s continuing exploration of Mars with scientific rovers on the red planet’s surface will continue into 2020, when the space agency plans to launch another robotic science rover based on its successful Curiosity rover. The future mission was unveiled Dec. 4 by NASA as part of a “robust multiyear program” that aimed at preparing the […]

Google is now giving enterprises a new way to distribute their Android apps to employees—through their own “private channels” set up inside the Google Play Store. The idea is that by allowing businesses to create the personalized channels, they’ll be better able to distribute their own internally built Android apps and approved apps that are […]

Facebook began collecting votes Dec. 3 on whether to change some of its user policies, including one that requires 30 percent of its members to tally their votes to prevent any changes to the existing user account rules. But with about 1 billion members signed up, that means that some 333 million Facebook users would […]

Google has updated its Google Maps Android API to bring more features to maps on Android devices, including improved designs for larger displays and additional layers to show terrain, traffic and more. The move continues to raise the bar for Google Android, Apple and Nokia in the mobile device competition as the companies fight to […]

As the International Telecommunication Union was preparing to start 11 days of meetings on Dec. 3 in Dubai, Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist and one of the fathers of today’s Internet, sent out a heartfelt message to remind conference participants that the whole world is watching their actions. His fear, wrote Cerf in a […]

Google is buying BufferBox, a Canadian startup that offers customers locked storage sites where they can pick up packages from online vendors instead of having the packages left on their porches by delivery workers. BufferBox announced the acquisition in a Nov. 30 blog post on its Website. “We are excited to announce that BufferBox has […]