Todd R. Weiss

Google continues its efforts to engage software developers this fall through the sponsorship of its second annual Google Developers Group DevFest events around the world, as well as a Google Cloud Platform Developer Challenge where participants will be tasked with building locally relevant Web applications that could solve real-world problems. The DevFest events were unveiled […]

NASA’s launch of its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft, a robotic vehicle that is being sent to Earth’s moon to conduct research about the moon’s surface and dust, is expected to get under way at 11:27 p.m. EDT Sept. 6 when its booster rocket is set to be ignited. The launch of […]

When Google launched its Chrome Web browser five years ago today in 2008, most users still ran Chrome using a personal computer. Things sure have changed for Chrome’s 5th birthday. Nowadays, mobile is huge and Chrome is a big part of a mobile user’s online arsenal, allowing users of just about any device to browse […]

Google’s Chrome Packaged Apps line of outside-the-browser apps for Windows and Chromebook users is again being expanded, with new features, apps and capabilities for users. “Today we’re unveiling a new kind of Chrome App, which brings together the speed, security and flexibility of the modern web with the powerful functionality previously only available with software […]

Google’s YouTube unit will air live online coverage of the 2013 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week events from New York City from Sept. 5 through 12, bringing the latest fashions and trends to the world. The live coverage was unveiled in a Sept. 3 post by Bethann Stenseth, of the Google YouTube partner acquisitions and development […]

Android’s next version will be named Android KitKat, displacing months of rumors about a supposed Android Key Lime Pie version. What’s perhaps more interesting for users is that the next version of the Android mobile operating system is being numbered 4.4, and not 5.0 as also long rumored, meaning that it is perhaps an evolutionary […]

Google has released the latest Version 29 of its Chrome Web browser with various updates and fixes for Windows, Linux, Mac and Chrome Frame platforms. Also released by Google is a new stable channel version of Chrome OS. The stable channel update for the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame, Version 29.0.1547.62, […]

Google will hold a two-day Chrome Dev Summit in November where Chrome developers can come to get the latest information on new APIs, performance enhancements and more to continue to improve and grow their Chrome apps development. The Summit, which will be held Nov. 20-21, 2013, at Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, was announced in […]

Google is again expanding its Map Maker program around the world by opening it for the first time to residents in Italy, Bulgaria, San Marino and even Vatican City so that more local color, flavor and details can be added to existing Google Maps. “Share the delights of Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast by adding all […]

Google has been taking its 360-degree, high-quality Street View cameras into some of the world’s most spectacular zoos and wildlife parks in recent months so that online viewers can see a wide assortment of wild animals from around the world right on their own computers and mobile devices. “Animal-lovers, rejoice!” wrote Deanna Yick, the Street […]