Todd R. Weiss

Google’s Chrome browser just got some new speed, search and sharing updates in the latest versions released for Android and iOS users, bringing improved performance to the smaller screens of mobile devices. The new Android version of the Chrome browser brings faster search and scrolling performance due to the inclusion of the latest V8 JavaScript […]

Google’s almost two-year push to require users of its online services to reveal their real names has an unlikely critic: Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist, who is also credited as the “Father of the Internet.” Cerf said that by forcing people to use their real names, it can hurt social media users in nations […]

Groupon may have fired its founder and CEO last week as it seeks to fix its problems, but in the big scheme of things, the company is still searching to find its way in a marketplace that’s becoming ever more crowded with sellers of online deals for consumers. Just a little more than two years […]

Google has stashed away $48 billion in cash to give it free rein and lots of financial options in the marketplace should tantalizing acquisition targets show up in its cross hairs. That’s what Google CFO Patrick Pichette recently told a crowd at a technology conference held by Morgan Stanley in San Francisco, according to a […]

The Google Maps API is always being used in new ways by clever developers, and a sampling of recent examples offers visitors everything from mapping out their next road trip to finding fast food and public art on the run. Plan Your Next Road Trip Online When you find it’s time to hit the road […]

Google has just released the new Zopfli Compression Algorithm, an open-source general-purpose data compression library that can make files 3 to 8 percent smaller than those run through the existing zlib library. The creation and release of Zopfli, which gets its name from a traditional Swiss braided bread recipe (Zopf), was announced in a Feb. […]

Google is reminding consumers that for the 13th year in a row, identity theft remains the top consumer complaint received by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, comprising 18.9 percent of the 2 million complaints received in 2012. And the answer to fighting identity theft, according to a Feb. 27 post on the Google Public Policy […]

Google Glass will be used in the future by real men, while smartphones and their need for finger-swipes over a glass screen will emasculate their users. That’s the view of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who made the comments Feb. 27 at the TED Conference in Long Beach, Calif., according to a story by Wired.com. In […]

Google’s Chrome team has released to newest stable version of the Chrome browser for Android devices, including the latest fixes, improvements and updates. The new Chrome 25.0.1364.123 for Android browser is now available for download through Google Play, according to a Feb. 27 post by Google’s Jason Kersey, on the Google Chrome Releases blog. “This […]

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS mobile operating systems will now compete with BlackBerry for dominance in mobile device deployments inside the U.S. Department of Defense as the agency moves further away from BlackBerry devices. In a new Commercial Mobile Device Implementation Plan announced Feb. 26 by the Pentagon, the DoD says it will continue to […]