Todd R. Weiss

Google’s latest transparency report on government censorship requests coming in from around the world related to content on Google Websites shows the rate rising by 26.2 percent by the end of 2012. “From July to December 2012, we received 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content—an increase from the 1,811 requests to remove […]

Not so fast, Chrome OS developers. Google’s latest developer’s release of its Chrome OS device operating system is causing problems for Google Docs users, so developers are being urged to revert to an earlier version until the issues are resolved. The problem was unveiled in an April 23 post by Danielle Drew of the Google […]

Google Fiber started bringing its high-speed gigabit Internet and cable television services to the Kansas City area in the fall of 2012 and now wants to leverage that investment by getting more local businesses online to help drive the local economy. To do that, Google is inviting local Kansas City businesses to create their own […]

LAS VEGAS— Ram Varadarajan, the general manager of New Business Innovation at CA Technologies, knows a little bit about innovating and growing a successful software company. Varadarajan founded Arcot Systems, an authentication and fraud management company, in 1997 and led it until it was acquired by CA in 2010. Since joining CA after the sale […]

Google’s Street View project now covers 50 nations around the world, providing images taken by Street View vehicles that are driven up and down countless thousands of miles of local streets as part of the company’s global mapping efforts. Two countries, Hungary and the Kingdom of Lesotho in Africa, are the latest being added to […]

LAS VEGAS—With the arrival of a new CEO in January, CA Technologies has been working hard in the last three months to refocus its messages about what it offers to its customers. Here at its CA World 2013 annual user conference, the company couldn’t make its go-to-market plans any clearer. CA, which began operations in […]

Google is being hit with an $189,167 fine in Germany for collecting user data without fully disclosing the practice as Google StreetView vehicles combed German streets collecting information for its maps back from 2007 to 2010. The fine was handed down by Johannes Caspar, the data-protection supervisor in Hamburg, according to an April 23 report […]

Google Maps can take Website visitors to amazing places for adventures and exploration or to see beautiful places and cool possibilities around the world. And it’s all done using the magic of the Google Maps API, which allows Website builders to bring “life” to maps and give them new uses, meanings and interpretations. Here are […]

Google Glass is now being shipped and the first recipients have quickly begun unwrapping their prized new $1,500 possessions, setting them up and starting to use them in their daily lives, while excitedly posting their impressions on social media sites. Several of the first Glass users, including Brandon Allgood, the chief technology officer of a […]

Google Fiber has chosen Provo, Utah, as its latest target community for its high-speed Internet and cable television services. The announcement comes just eight days after Google unveiled its plans to bring Google Fiber to Austin, Texas. The Provo project would be the third U.S. community to get Fiber service so far since introducing the […]