Todd R. Weiss

Google’s Gmail service is now making it simpler to send money to others by sending “cash” in an email message. The new capability is possible because Google has integrated its Google Wallet payment services with Gmail, allowing users to safely and securely send up to $10,000 per transaction to another person, according to a May […]

Google I/O 2013’s opening keynote on May 15 didn’t have anything like the showy parachutists who landed atop the conference hall at last year’s gathering or a bombshell announcement about something as cool as Google Glass as in 2012, but at the same time, plenty of innovation is on tap. That’s the opinion of several […]

Google Maps and Google Search are getting innovative updates, with Maps receiving a more interactive look and Search gaining speech recognition capabilities that will allow users to “talk” back and forth during searches. Both upgrades were unveiled in detail at the May 15 opening session of the three-day Google I/O Developers Conference, which is being […]

Google’s sixth annual I/O Developers Conference opened today with a host of innovations and announcements for lovers of Android, mobile games, app development, maps, search and much more. In one of the biggest announcements, the search giant unveiled a first-ever Google Play music subscription service that allows users to access all the music in Google’s […]

Google’s Go open-source programming language has just been updated to Version 1.1, bringing developers new capabilities and performance improvements such as a race detector for finding concurrency bugs and new standard library functionality. Details about the new Go 1.1 were released May 13 in a post by Andrew Gerrand of the Go Team on the […]

Google is now allowing users of their Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photo accounts to put all their files in a unified place, rather than having to maintain separate storage areas depending on what kinds of files were being stored. That means that instead of having separate 10GB and 5GB storage areas for their files, users […]

Google is tying its Google+ social media services and more into its games using Google Play under wide-ranging gaming improvements and innovations that will be unveiled later this week at the annual Google I/O 2013 Developers Conference. The news comes from a report by AndroidPolice, which claims that it obtained a copy of the latest […]

Google SMS Search, which allowed mobile phone users to access information through brief text messages rather than having to use a mobile Web browser and data plan, has been shut down by the search giant with nary a word. The end of the service apparently occurred on May 10, just before dozens of users of […]

Google is again pushing out details on its upcoming annual Google I/O 2013 Developers Conference, this time releasing session schedules for its Android and Google Cloud Platform tracks at the May 15-17 event in San Francisco. Android will of course get a lot of attention at the conference with a full range of sessions that […]

Google is coming to the rescue of last-minute Mother’s Day shoppers with an online gift guide and a host of other features that can even help the geekiest of geeks let their moms know just how much they care about them. “Visit our special page for Mother’s Day for gift ideas, to find local flower […]