Todd R. Weiss

Google is bumping up the enterprise management tools for its Chrome Web browser as part of an effort to drive Chrome’s increased adoption by businesses around the world. The upgrades were unveiled in an April 16 post by Cyrus Mistry, the senior product manager for Chrome for Business and Education, on the Google Chrome Blog. […]

Google’s Play store is getting a new capability that allows app developers to better showcase their new apps when consumers search for apps using their mobile devices in the app-filled store. App developers can now upload screen shots of their apps running on 7-inch and 10-inch tablets so consumers can see what those apps will […]

Google set up its Google Person Finder Website in Boston shortly after the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line April 15 to make it easier for survivors at the scene to communicate with worried friends and family members in the hours after the horrific terrorist attack. By the afternoon of April 16, information […]

Google Glass will soon be out on the streets in select communities as the first units have begun shipping to developers who signed up to buy them at last June’s Google I/O conference. Google announced the first shipments in an April 15 email to attendees of that conference, advising them that the first devices are […]

Google has proposed an antitrust settlement with the European Commission that apparently satisfies the European regulators and that will help bring about the end of a two-year investigation into antitrust charges against the search company. The proposed settlement was reported April 14, according to a story in The New York Times that was written based […]

Google has created an “Inactive Account manager” tool to allow account holders to manage their digital lives, including the availability of their stored photos, videos, emails and more, in the event of death or long inactivity. The new tool was unveiled in an April 11 post by Andreas Tuerk, a Google product manager, on the […]

Google Map Maker, the innovative Google maps service that allows people to add valuable details to local Google Maps so they can share the information with others, is now accessible for users in the United Kingdom. Google Map Maker, which launched in 2008, has been adding new nations since it began to bring the capabilities […]

Google Glass is getting a big innovation push from Google’s investment arm, Google Ventures, which has launched a new “Glass Collective” organization to seek out and nurture startups that can add features and capabilities to the Glass project. The Glass Collective was announced April 10 in a post by Bill Maris, the vice president of […]

Google’s Chrome team has released the latest Version 26 stable edition of Chrome OS for all devices, as well as the latest Version 26 of the Chrome browser and the latest Chrome Beta for Android offering. The new versions were unveiled in separate posts on the Google Chromium Blog. The latest stable release of Chrome […]

Google’s Gmail just turned 9 years old and, to celebrate its birthday, Google has put together a timeline to highlight its evolution and some of Gmail’s biggest advances since the service started on April 1, 2004. At its launch, Gmail offered users 1GB of mail storage, which was about 20 times the storage of other […]