Todd R. Weiss

The new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system is now officially available on the first devices to get the latest release of the mobile platform, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus HSPA+, or Evolved High-Speed Packet Access, smartphone. Coming just a few weeks after its big splash in late June at Google’s I/O Developer’s Conference, the rollout […]

Two Internet security researchers who recently reported their findings of an Android botnet that pushes spam to users’ Yahoo email accounts now say they might have jumped the gun. In an update from The Wall Street Journal, the two researchers aren’t as sure that their original claims about the alleged Android malware and botnet are […]

The Google Mini enterprise search appliance, the iGoogle personalized home page and several other Web-based services will be phased out by the company in the coming months as part of a Google services overhaul that began last September. The company is continuing to trim some products that are “not having the impact we strive for,€ […]

The long-running antitrust case against Microsoft by the European Commission may soon finally be completed after a European court upheld a $1 billion fine against the software giant that was originally announced four years ago. “In an appeals ruling, the General Court of the European Union rejected Microsoft’s request to dismiss the fine levied in […]

Google Maps had planned to start charging a service fee to some of its largest business users this year, but the abandonment of the platform by several key users in response has forced the company to slash its proposed pricing. “After several high-profile defections, Google is backpedaling somewhat on its coming fees for using the […]

When Google talks, people listen, and there will likely be a lot of listening all over the world, starting June 27 as the fifth annual Google I/O ’12 Developers Conference kicks off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. While Google is expected to focus a lot on Android for smartphones and tablets, there€™s much […]

With Google’s already sold-out I/O Developer’s Conference set to begin in San Francisco on June 27, the rumor mills are churning online that the splashy event will be the place where the next version of the next Android operating system€”Android 4.1€”is unveiled. The likely successor to the current Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android is […]

The 20-month-old legal fight between Apple and Motorola over alleged patent-infringement claims is now over after the trial judge dismissed the case after lashing some of Apple’s key legal arguments in his 38-page court decision. In his written opinion in the case, which was released June 23, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Posner criticized the […]

Dissatisfied with the pace of it€™s almost 2-year-old antitrust probe into Google’s search results rankings, the state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the search company to get it to comply with previous document requests. In a lawsuit filed in Austin this week, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott “demanded that the Internet company cooperate […]

In an effort to expand its paid services to businesses, Google has unveiled a new “Google Maps Coordinate” application for Android devices that will allow businesses to track the locations of their mobile workers. The idea, according to a Google blog post by Daniel Chu, a senior product manager, is that companies will be able […]

In an effort to resolve an ongoing patent dispute with Microsoft related to Xbox entertainment systems and smartphones, Google’s Motorola Mobility division has made a public settlement offer to put the case to rest, according to a report by Bloomberg News. Under the offer’s terms, Motorola Mobility would pay 33 cents for every phone that […]

Google is starting and seeding a project to fight the extinction and loss of more than 3,000 endangered languages around the globe to help preserve the history, cultures and knowledge of mankind. The effort was announced today in a Google blog post by Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman, two managers of the company’s Endangered […]