Todd R. Weiss

Google Fiber, the company’s high-speed Internet and cable television service, hopes to begin hookups to subscribers in Provo, Utah, by the end of 2013 as the company continues to upgrade existing infrastructure for the new, faster services. “In July, we completed our agreement with the City of Provo, and we’re working hard to hit our […]

Google Search is making it easier for users to find information they are seeking within their own Gmail, Google Calendar or Google+ accounts just by making a request using their own voice. The upcoming new feature is bringing capabilities that Google Now users have had for about a year to the Google Search product and […]

Google is adding several key new features to its Google+ app for Android to help workers use it in the workplace, including giving users the ability to create and manage multiple accounts for their personal and work lives. Also being added is a feature that lets Google+ users make restricted posts using their Android devices […]

Google is adding another open-source tool for developers with the release of its Gumbo HTML parser, which is a C implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm. The open-source code release was announced in an Aug. 14 post by Jonathan Tang, of the search features team, on the Google Open Source Blog. “One of the big […]

Google has revealed the winners of 105 Google Research Awards for computer science projects that will be conducted by graduate students around the world, and also introduced a first-time, postgraduate Computer Science Teaching Fellows program aimed at K-12 teachers. The 105 winners of the summer 2013 Google Research Awards were named in an Aug. 12 […]

Google Glass isn’t slated to hit the consumer market in the United States until late 2013, but companies such as Fidelity Investments are wasting no time experimenting with possible uses of Glass by their customers. Fidelity has recently been developing a prototype Glassware app it calls “Fidelity Market Monitor for Glass,” which could allow users […]

Google’s Chrome OS is again receiving maintenance updates to its Stable, Dev and Beta software channels for users on all Chrome OS devices, as part of its regular code refreshes. The new Stable Channel version of Chrome OS is Version 28.0.1500.95, according to an Aug. 12 post on the Chrome Releases Blog by Josafat Garcia […]

Google Glass Explorers will be receiving a lot of new cool and useful features in the latest software update for the devices, including Google Now “cards” that present up-to-the-minute information on the weather, nearby traffic, restaurants and much more. The new features were unveiled as part of the fourth regularly scheduled monthly Glass software update […]

Google Glass is in the midst of being tried out by several thousand “Explorer” users in the last few months, but there may be no users more affected by the use of Glass than early adoptees with physical disabilities. One such user, Alex Blaszczuk, a young woman who became a quadriplegic after a 2011 car […]

Google wants Web pages to load faster on mobile devices, so it has issued a new set of guidelines for webmasters so they can optimize their pages for display on smartphones and tablets. “Users tell us they use smartphones to search online because it’s quick and convenient, but today’s average mobile page typically takes more […]