Todd R. Weiss

A German court ruled in favor of Apple Sept. 13 in a patent-infringement case with Google’s Motorola unit, throwing the possibility of a sales ban there or a German recall on Android smartphones and tablets into the realm of possibility. “The dispute focused on the iOS system’s bounce-back list feature [also called “rubberbanding”] which Motorola […]

The open-source openSUSE 12.2 Linux for Education (Li-f-e) OS has many new capabilities. openSUSE is rolling out the latest version of the openSUSE 12.2 Linux for Education (Li-f-e) open-source operating system with a full range of features aimed at better serving students, teachers and school administrators. After a two-month delay, openSUSE 12.1 Li-f-e has been […]

Apple-fresh off of its launch of the iPhone 5-and Google continue to grow their dominance in the mobile marketplace, having positioned themselves to capture as much as 98 percent of mobile device sales by the end of 2012. That bold prediction comes from financial research firm Global Equities Research, just a day after Apple’s flashy […]

Google is making it harder for users to access The Pirate Bay Website, part of its growing efforts to limit search access to Websites that illegally share copyrighted content. Google announced its stepped-up effort in August, and The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site, is the latest target. The Pirate Bay has been removed from Google’s […]

In a gleeful Google+ post, Hugo Barra, director of product management for Google’s Android project, lauded the still-growing success of Android around the world. “Today is a big day for Android … 500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day,” wrote Barra in a brief but pointed post Sept. 11 […]

Google has released its stand-alone YouTube player app for Apple’s iPhones and iPod Touch devices so that users can continue to watch videos on their devices after Apple drops native YouTube capabilities from its upcoming new operating system, iOS 6. Google unveiled the new player in a Sept. 11 post on the Google YouTube blog. […]

Five months after unveiling its Google Drive cloud storage services, Google is now adding several useful features that aim to make Drive even easier and more flexible for users on both Apple iOS and Android mobile devices. In a Sept. 10 post on the Google Enterprise Blog, Anil Sabharwal, senior product manager for the Google […]

Hewlett-Packard unveiled several new data security products and services Sept. 10 to help enterprises make their data centers and other business operations more secure against hackers and other attackers in the cloud and in the world of mobile business. The new offerings include data center defenses that can permit enterprises to evaluate their security practices […]

Google Fiber, the search giant’s new high-speed Internet and cable television service, will soon begin rolling out to more than 180 Kansas City neighborhoods that preregistered for the fledgling new service. Back in July, Google Fiber unveiled the preregistration program for eligible residents to sign up for the service, with the idea that the neighborhoods […]

As Amazon continues to build its new Kindle mobile tablet devices using Google’s Android operating system and selling them in the same market as Google’s Nexus 7 devices, the two companies could find themselves competing directly more and more in the marketplace. So will Amazon and Google end up battling in the future, just like […]

Google Street View has added images for another 150 colleges and universities around the world to its ever-growing Street View images collection, giving online users “you are there” glimpses into more institutions of higher learning in the United States, Japan, Europe and elsewhere. “With classes just getting started, freshman students, transfers and even empty-nesting parents […]

Microsoft is asking millions of Web searchers to break their longtime Google search habits and give the software giant’s Bing search engine a new try in a catchy “Bing It On Challenge” that is aimed at growing Bing’s market share in the search wars. The “Bing It On” campaign was born out of a recent […]