Todd R. Weiss

Google’s Street View imaging project recently returned to northern Japan to capture more images of the destruction left by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake that decimated the region. “Two years ago we launched an initiative using Street View to digitally archive the 2011 tsunami and earthquake-affected areas in Northeastern Japan,” wrote Kei Kawai, group product […]

Google has announced Hesokuri, a new open-source application that allows developers to automatically and safely back up their all-important source code as they are up to their eyeballs in open-source projects. Developed by Matthew DeVore of the Google+ team, Hesokuri is a background process that keeps Git repositories on multiple machines in sync, automatically, so […]

Google’s Street View cameras captured amazing 360-degree color images of the lush Galapagos Islands earlier in 2013, and now the photographs are being shared with online viewers as part of the Street View project. “Now you can visit the islands from anywhere you may be, and see many of the animals that Darwin experienced on […]

Google wants its DoubleClick advertising service customers to reap even better results from their online ads in Google Search and elsewhere, so Google has just launched a new DoubleClick for Advertisers (DFA) Academy to provide more advice and self-paced training. “We’ve heard from DFA users that they need more customized learning based on how they […]

Google has just signed on to contribute to the open-source Open edX distance education project, which allows students around the world to take college courses online from some of the most notable schools on the planet. Google is joining the edX efforts a year after starting its own Google Course Builder project, which was created […]

Google has lost its latest court appeal over its former practices of collecting unsecured WiFi personal data from unsuspecting citizens as its Street View vehicles drove around communities throughout the United States. A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that a lawsuit accusing Google of the practice can proceed, ending Google’s latest hopes […]

Google will offer a free online course Sept. 17 to 30 to teach Web developers and designers how they can make their Websites more accessible and friendly for blind and visually impaired users. The course, “Introduction to Web Accessibility,” will offer a host of practices and design elements that will allow sites to serve visually […]

Google has launched its second version update of the Google App Engine since August, with the latest release including a host of features that the company says will make it more flexible and simpler for developers to use for their applications. “Just a few weeks following our last release, we’re back with Google App Engine […]

Google has given Android developers another tool for building audio apps with its recent release of the Patchfield open-source audio library. Patchfield for Android was announced in a Sept. 4 post by Peter Brinkmann of the Android speech infrastructure team, on the Google Open Source Blog. “Some of the best apps are those that specialize […]

Google has sent a fresh batch of concession proposals to the European Union (EU) in a continuing effort to settle a 3-year-old antitrust case that has embroiled the company in Europe. The latest concession proposals were revealed in a Sept. 9 story by Reuters, which reported that they arrived two months after the EU’s regulatory […]