Todd R. Weiss

Facebook began collecting votes Dec. 3 on whether to change some of its user policies, including one that requires 30 percent of its members to tally their votes to prevent any changes to the existing user account rules. But with about 1 billion members signed up, that means that some 333 million Facebook users would […]

Google has updated its Google Maps Android API to bring more features to maps on Android devices, including improved designs for larger displays and additional layers to show terrain, traffic and more. The move continues to raise the bar for Google Android, Apple and Nokia in the mobile device competition as the companies fight to […]

As the International Telecommunication Union was preparing to start 11 days of meetings on Dec. 3 in Dubai, Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist and one of the fathers of today’s Internet, sent out a heartfelt message to remind conference participants that the whole world is watching their actions. His fear, wrote Cerf in a […]

Google is buying BufferBox, a Canadian startup that offers customers locked storage sites where they can pick up packages from online vendors instead of having the packages left on their porches by delivery workers. BufferBox announced the acquisition in a Nov. 30 blog post on its Website. “We are excited to announce that BufferBox has […]

Innovative new Google Maps applications are being invented every day, bringing users myriad fun and creative ways of seeing information in fresh ways. Here are some of the most fascinating map apps sites, which are being created by developers around the world using Google Maps APIs, that we’ve uncovered recently here at eWEEK: Instant Google […]

To assist U.S. military veterans and their families in making the transition back to civilian life, Google is joining together with three veterans’ groups to give returning service men and women a centralized starting point for finding jobs, careers and employment opportunities. The new VetNet Website is the creation of Google and its three founding […]

Global Apple App Store sales revenue in October totaled four times the revenue brought in by Google’s Android Play Store for the same period, but the Play Store scored a huge 311 percent growth rate since January, setting the stage for interesting competition between the two vendors. Those results come from a new research study […]

A settlement between Google and the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust allegations could be approaching, but it might not include a key part of the U.S. government’s concerns about Google’s business practices, according to a report by The Washington Post. What’s potentially missing in the settlement is that it appears to not include discussions or […]

Facebook, which is no stranger to criticism from its users over its privacy policies, is facing a new round of discord from many of its customers over some freshly proposed changes. In a Nov. 21 post on the site, Facebook said it wants to halt the current process of asking users to vote on proposed […]

Google’s YouTube division is continuing its efforts to make it easier for viewers who are hearing-impaired or who speak different languages to view YouTube content using automatic captioning in their native languages. YouTube has added support for six more languages—German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian and Dutch—to the automatic-captioning services that debuted in 2009, according to […]