Todd R. Weiss

Google Glass has been making headlines since last June, but the search giant is continuing to give potential users a clearer vision into what they can actually do with the innovative, wearable computer by putting several potential third-party apps on display at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference. In a demonstration at SXSW, several cool […]

Google Now, the cool, helpful and just-in-time service that delivers an expanding variety of travel, weather and other information to Android mobile users as they need it, is reportedly now under development for desktop users as well. An early glimpse of the upcoming feature was posted on Google+ by a French developer, Francois Beaufort. He […]

Google will pay a $7 million settlement to end a U.S. government probe into its Street View imaging program, which for three years collected personal information on users wirelessly as the Street View vehicles drove around taking photographs. The proposed settlement was reported March 8 in an article by The Washington Post, based on information […]

Google Glass apparently isn’t the only wearable high-tech gadget being explored by the company. A talking shoe is also being developed, but this project is only for show and won’t eventually be sold to consumers. The talking shoe—which isn’t a shoe phone like the one used by Maxwell Smart in the “Get Smart” series, by […]

Google wants users to know how sesarch actually happens, from the moment they type a query into the Search box on Google.com until the instant the results appear, ready for curious users to find just the information they are pursuing. That’s the idea behind a new Website, How Search Works, created by the search giant […]

A Google Street View team is in Japan for the two-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, taking stark photographs of a city about 12 miles from the heavily damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, which spread its radiation across a wide area. The photography project is being conducted in Namie, Japan, a city […]

Google’s behind-the-scenes actions allegedly were the motivating force behind the European Union’s $732 million fine of Microsoft March 6. The European Commission—the EU’s antitrust arm—levied the fine against Microsoft for failing to offer a choice of Web browsers to early users of its Windows 7 computer operating system, which the company must do as part […]

Twitter’s Android and iOS apps have received improvements to make them easier to use and quicker at finding content on the popular social media platform. The updates to search and Web browsing are also being added to Twitter’s mobile.twitter.com site, according to a March 6 post by software engineer Nick Takayama on the Twitter Blog. […]

Google has been testing a same-day delivery service in San Francisco for local retailers since February, a move that could allow the company to expand more into the turf of online retailer Amazon.com. “Google Shopping Express helps local retail stores sell products online and have the items delivered to shoppers the same day,” according to […]

Google has unveiled the first big update of its Google Maps for iPhone app, adding several new features to the stand-alone mapping app that Google introduced last December to work with Apple’s latest iOS 6 mobile operating system. “Today, we’re releasing an update for Google Maps for iPhone with new search icons that make finding […]