Todd R. Weiss

Google is getting into the Chromebook rental business by offering the devices to businesses on a no-contract basis for $30 a month so users can try them and use the devices to get their work done on the cloud. The idea aims to help companies learn how Chromebooks can help their workers and add flexibility […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser has accomplished a lot in the four years since its birth in September 2008. This past June, it surpassed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the world’s most used browser for the first time and it has added lots of useful features and strengths over the years to encourage even more users to […]

An increasing number of mobile device users are becoming more aware of their online privacy and are taking the initiative to remove or avoid apps from their smartphones and cell phones that demand large amounts of personal information to be used. The trend shows that 54 percent of cell phone users who download apps have […]

Google is pulling the cord on its Google TV Ads business, just five years after launching it in 2007 to sell advertisements on traditional television networks for its customers. The shuttering of Google TV Ads was announced in a post on the unit’s blog by Shishir Mehrotra, vice president of YouTube and video at Google. […]

The number of Internet users around the world is soaring and will total about 3.5 billion-or about half the Earth’s estimated population of about 7.4 billion in 2017, according to a Sept. 4 report from Forrester Research. That means that about 1.1 billion additional people around the world will be online in the next five […]

While many people are getting some of their news and information about the approaching November elections from social networking sites like Facebook, most of those people aren’t using the sites for political debates or for political purposes, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Interestingly, only about […]

Google’s and Apple’s top executives apparently have been meeting in private to resolve some of their intellectual-property differences despite the patent-infringement claims swirling between their two companies, according to a report from Reuters. The discussions between Google CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook so far have included key topics such as the mobile […]

Google engineers and partners are always adding innovative ways to show off what Google Maps can do to help consumers every day, and the latest additions include some really cool new ideas, from helping musicians find each other to giving bicyclists in 10 foreign countries a way to set out on trips using GPS navigation […]

On the heels of its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this past May, Google is already prepared to start parceling out the bits of the company it doesn’t want. Google apparently wants to get out of the set-top box business owned by Motorola Mobility and has hired Barclays to help sell the Home Business […]

Google is bolstering the appeal of Google+ to businesses by adding innovative workplace tools that the search giant hopes will bring in new business users for its ever-expanding services. The new Google+ features include giving business users the ability to control who can see their posts on Google+, video conferencing that’s integrated with other Google […]

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, who captivated the imaginations of Earth’s population when he took the first human step onto the moon in 1969, died Aug. 25, but his death didn’t pass without a poignant technology note from two staff members with Google’s Inside Search blog. “The two of us are old enough to remember […]

With Hurricane Isaac now bearing down on New Orleans, companies that learned hard IT lessons from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 are now waiting to find out if they are ready for the latest powerful storm to wallop the Gulf of Mexico. Isaac certainly isn’t nearly as powerful as Katrina was back on […]