Todd R. Weiss

After being chosen more than two years ago by Google as the place to unveil its fledgling Google Fiber gigabit-speed Internet and cable television services, residents of Kansas City are already signing up to be the first customers now that Google has started to take preregistrations. In interviews today with eWEEK, a sampling of three […]

For the last several years, Apple’s iOS mobile operating system has been getting most of the attention from software developers every time a new version comes out, in comparison with new releases of Google’s competing Android OS. But something interesting just happened: Google’s latest Android Jelly Bean release got almost exactly as much developer attention […]

After a 16-month wait, Google announced that residents of Kansas City can now start signing up to receive gigabit-speed Internet and cable television service through Google Fiber starting in September. And rather than deciding on its own which neighborhoods will get the first service, Google is asking residents to gather their neighbors together to “lobby” […]

In a striking move, major Web-based companies such as Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook are joining together in a new lobbying effort aimed at making their interests and legislative concerns known directly to government leaders. The new Washington-based group, The Internet Association, unveiled itself on July 25 as a membership organization “comprised of some of […]

A new version of Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud software is now available from the company, as well as a new migration tool that allows users to easily and quickly migrate data from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL. Also announced by Oracle is a new application aimed at electric and other utility companies, Oracle Utilities Operational […]

When Google announced in August 2011 that it was buying handset maker Motorola Mobility for more than $12 billion, many financial and IT analysts said they were surprised because they didn’t know what the search giant was planning to gain from the purchase. Less than a month later, though, Google CEO Larry Page explained the […]

To help business clients discover all of Google’s available cloud services, the search giant this week unveiled its new Google Cloud Platform Partner Program to bring consultants and vendors together to help customers learn how the cloud can help them. And that, according to analysts, will be a good way for companies from small to […]

Google “has agreed [to] the outlines of a settlement” with the European Union to finally end an ongoing EU investigation into alleged anticompetitive behaviors by the search giant in the European marketplace, according to a report by The Financial Times (FT). Under the settlement, Google would not be hit with formal antitrust charges by the […]

Apple and Samsung have split two German court victories in their latest scuffle over alleged patent-infringement charges involving the design of Samsung’s Galaxy tablet computer line. In this round of the ongoing legal battle, Apple appears to be the biggest victor with the ruling by the German court that Samsung’s earlier Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet […]

A settlement deal being negotiated between Google and the European Union to resolve antitrust issues could now be expanded to include Google’s Android mobile technologies, in addition to Google search platforms. “The outcome is finely balanced and will partly depend on Google’s willingness to extend the scope of the settlement to mobile services,” according to […]

Apple and Samsung continue to swap legal blows with varying degrees of effectiveness in their relentless global war over alleged patent infringement. In the latest tussle, Apple won a round against Samsung on July 19 when a three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied a Samsung motion that […]

A new tool on YouTube will allow users to “blur” the faces of subjects before uploading them to the Website, all in the name of protecting people’s identities, whether it’s a child playing sports or an activist expressing an opinion at a protest rally. The anonymity capability was announced by Google’s YouTube unit in a […]