Todd R. Weiss

When NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe launched Sept. 5, 1977, its mission was to explore Jupiter and Saturn and help scientists learn more about our solar system. Amazingly, 36 years later, Voyager 1 is still providing extraordinary discoveries. NASA recently learned that Voyager 1, which has now traveled more than 15.8 billion miles from Earth, […]

Google Analytics is a tool that businesses of all sizes can use to analyze their online audiences so they can serve their needs, offer the right products and services, and make the all-important sale. With that in mind, Google Analytics experts will be taking their knowledge on the road to a wide variety of digital […]

Google Fiber will co-host a three-day conference in November that will bring together developers who want to create new applications that will be able to blossom on evolving high-speed, Gigabit Internet infrastructures such as Google Fiber. The conference, the Gigabit Explorer Challenge, will run from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3 in Kansas City, where Google […]

Google’s Quickoffice apps for Android and iOS users will no longer carry monthly fees under a new “free for all” policy announced by Google. “Everyone likes free stuff, which is why starting today we’re making Quickoffice available for free, for everyone,” wrote Alan Warren, vice president of engineering for Google, in a Sept. 19 post […]

Google is getting into health care with the creation of Calico, a company that will work to find ways of improving the health and extending the lives of human beings. Google announced the new effort in a Sept. 18 post on the company’s corporate blog, unveiling Calico as a startup business that will focus on […]

Google is always working on improving voice commands for its core Android apps, and the latest version of Chrome for iOS has some key updates, including improved and broadened voice search as well as deeper integration with Google Apps. The details about the new Chrome for iOS Web browser, which is Version 30 (officially known […]

Google has released a new version of its Google Wallet app for Android phones that the company says will make it easier for users to send money to others, receive special savings on online purchases, and track purchases and other activities in one place. The new Google Wallet app was announced in a Sept. 17 […]

Google has released new versions of Chrome for iOS, Chrome OS and Chromecast as part of its normal schedule of updates. Heading the list of new releases is the latest Chrome for iOS Web browser, version 30, for iPhones and iPads, which was unveiled in a Sept. 18 post by Jason Kersey of the Google […]

Plans for eventual Google Fiber high-speed Internet and cable television service in Overland Park, Kansas, were halted Sept. 16 by the city’s leaders as they pondered the potential legal issues surrounding who will be responsible if problems develop with the services. The one-month delay, until Oct. 14, was announced in a Sept. 17 story by […]

Google has acquired the company that created the Bump app, which lets users move files from smartphones to computers and vice versa by “bumping” the spacebar with the device to make the transfer. The acquisition was announced in a Sept. 16 post by David Lieb, the CEO and co-founderof Bump, on the company’s blog. “We’re […]