Todd R. Weiss

For the first time, Google Maps is adding underwater panoramic images of spectacular reefs around the world to the extensive and growing library of images in its Street View collection. The new images, of underwater reefs in Australia, Hawaii and the Philippines, come to the Street View collection from the Caitlin Seaview Survey, which is […]

The Google Play store may have come on the scene much later than Apple’s App Store, but it’s apparently wasting no time capturing the hearts and wallets of rabid Android fans—the store has reached 25 billion downloads after a little more than six months, according to Google. “We’ve now crossed 25 billion downloads from Google […]

The new Google Chrome Browser Version 22 includes a key improvement aimed at making 3D gaming enthusiasts happier – a Pointer Lock JavaScript API (also called Mouse Lock) that will allow more accurate gaming while using a computer mouse. The upgrade was one of several features highlighting the latest stable release of Google Chrome, which […]

The map lines were drawn between Google and Apple once Apple removed Google Maps from its latest iOS 6 software back in May in favor of Apple’s own Maps app. Now the question is, will Apple let its rival offer a stand-alone, built-for-iOS 6 Google Maps app in Apple’s App Store? That will only happen […]

Iran is now blocking direct access by its citizens to Google and Gmail over the Internet to protest Google’s refusal to remove an anti-Islam film clip that was posted on YouTube, according to several reports. “The decision to filter Google and Gmail has coincided with government plans to launch the initial phases of a national […]

Since Apple’s new iOS 6 operating system became available for download Sept. 19, many users have taken to the Internet to loudly vent their frustrations about the loss of Google Maps in in the company’s new mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new Apple Maps app is being panned as […]

With tablet computers flying off the shelves around the world as 2012 comes to a close, research firm IDC has revised its sales forecasts for tablet sales through 2013, raising its numbers substantially based on strong consumer demand. In its latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker report, IDC hiked its forecast for the worldwide tablet market […]

Internet-based companies, such as Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Salesforce and Yahoo, haven’t really formally organized in the past to make sure that their business concerns and interests were being heard and recognized by political leaders across the United States. That changed Sept. 19 with the official launch of The Internet Association, which claims to be […]

Dell unveiled a new laptop, tablet and desktop PC running Windows 8 for business users as the company prepares for the Oct. 26 launch of Microsoft’s newest computer operating system. Pricing for the new machines, announced Sept. 19, has not yet been announced, but will likely be unveiled at the time of the Windows 8 […]

Yahoo employees soon will be giving up their company-supported Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry devices as the search company moves its workforce over to iPhone, Android and Windows 8 smartphones, according to a published report. “New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of Yahoo’s full time and part time employees in […]

Google Apps users who are still using Microsoft’s older Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser won’t be able to continue to use Google services starting Nov. 15 until they upgrade to a newer browser. Google detailed the move in a Sept. 14 post on the Google Apps Blog as part of its continuing strategy to keep […]

Google’s Chrome browser project is beginning to add built-in “Do Not Track” capabilities to the latest developer’s build of the open-source Web browser. Do Not Track capabilities mean that users can choose to instruct their Web browsers not to show personal information about their Web searches using the Do Not Track controls that are being […]