Todd R. Weiss

Innovative new Google Maps applications are being invented every day, bringing users myriad fun and creative ways of seeing information in fresh ways. Here are some of the most fascinating map apps sites, which are being created by developers around the world using Google Maps APIs, that we’ve uncovered recently here at eWEEK: Instant Google […]

To assist U.S. military veterans and their families in making the transition back to civilian life, Google is joining together with three veterans’ groups to give returning service men and women a centralized starting point for finding jobs, careers and employment opportunities. The new VetNet Website is the creation of Google and its three founding […]

Global Apple App Store sales revenue in October totaled four times the revenue brought in by Google’s Android Play Store for the same period, but the Play Store scored a huge 311 percent growth rate since January, setting the stage for interesting competition between the two vendors. Those results come from a new research study […]

A settlement between Google and the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust allegations could be approaching, but it might not include a key part of the U.S. government’s concerns about Google’s business practices, according to a report by The Washington Post. What’s potentially missing in the settlement is that it appears to not include discussions or […]

Facebook, which is no stranger to criticism from its users over its privacy policies, is facing a new round of discord from many of its customers over some freshly proposed changes. In a Nov. 21 post on the site, Facebook said it wants to halt the current process of asking users to vote on proposed […]

Google’s YouTube division is continuing its efforts to make it easier for viewers who are hearing-impaired or who speak different languages to view YouTube content using automatic captioning in their native languages. YouTube has added support for six more languages—German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian and Dutch—to the automatic-captioning services that debuted in 2009, according to […]

Google’s Android team has released a new version 4.2.1 Jelly Bean operating system update just in time to fix an embarrassing glitch—the month of December 2012 was erroneously left out of Android’s People App. That meant that Android users weren’t able to enter birthdays, anniversaries and other significant dates for their contacts on their devices […]

Google Street View is making it easier for avid skiers to prepare for the world’s greatest ski slopes before they ever leave home through a new collection of images which users can view online. The new images include more than 90 ski and snow resorts around the world, adding to dozens that were already available […]

Google has upgraded its Gmail services by enabling users to send much larger file attachments—as big as 10GB—directly through its Google Drive cloud storage service, without having to leave their Gmail accounts. The changes mean that sending files is now more seamless and flexible using Gmail, without having to toggle between Drive and Gmail. “Since […]

Google is taking on the German government with a new “Defend Your Net” campaign that aims to fight attempts there to pass a law that would allow German newspaper publishers to charge fees to Google for providing links to newspaper stories. In the new German language Google Website launched Nov. 27, the search giant is […]

The latest version 23 of the Google Chrome browser has been released, incorporating a fix for missing audio when viewing Adobe Flash content while using a quadraphonic speaker setting. The new stable channel release of the Chrome browser, number 23.0.1271.91, is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeFrame platforms, according to Karen Grunberg of the […]

Google will soon launch a 12.85-inch, touch-screen-operated Chromebook computer that will carry the Google brand and be available for sale by the end of 2012, according to a report from DigiTimes.com and the Chinese-language Commercial Times. The devices will be built by Taiwan-based Compal Electronics, while the touch panels will be supplied by Wintek, according […]