Todd R. Weiss

Within minutes of President Barack Obama’s re-election victory Nov. 6, his campaign staff issued a quick three-word Tweet to his 22.7 million Twitter followers: “Four more years.” That simple message was then retweeted like wildfire from person to person, with more than 226,000 retweets in the first 22 minutes after it was posted, which breaks […]

Google’s rumored Maps app for Apple’s iOS 6 mobile operating system has been awaited by many iOS 6 users who were disappointed with Apple’s own built-in mapping app, but that anticipation may soon be turning into disappointment. “Sources at Google familiar with its mapping plans say they are ‘not optimistic’ that Apple will ever approve […]

Google is working to ensure that the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in late October doesn’t prevent displaced residents in New Jersey and New York from finding their local polling places and casting their ballots on Election Day Nov. 6. The massive storm washed away many homes and businesses, destroyed locations that had been used […]

Apple’s lawsuit against Google’s Motorola Mobility unit over royalties Apple would have to pay to license some of Motorola’s mobile phone patents has been thrown out of court by a federal judge in Madison, Wis. The lawsuit was dismissed Nov. 5 just hours before the trial was set to get under way in the courtroom […]

Hackers with the group Anonymous have apparently chosen computer gaming vendor Zynga and social networking powerhouse Facebook as the latest targets of a campaign that aims to reel in the power and wealth of the companies. In a Nov. 5 post on the AnonNews Website, the group says it is taking the actions because of […]

Google and its YouTube unit will again collect videos taken by voters on Election Day, Nov. 6, in an effort to produce a video record of the day and its events across the United States. Google and YouTube conducted a similar effort on Election Day 2008 with its Video Your Vote program. “Tomorrow, voters across […]

Google’s Android was the operating system of choice on 75 percent of the 181.1 million smartphones that shipped around the world in the third quarter of 2012, which was five times the 14.9 percent market share of Apple’s iOS for the same period. The new figures are contained in IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone […]

Google has quickly posted new aerial photographs of the shoreline areas along the East Coast that were decimated by Hurricane Sandy from Oct. 28 to Oct. 30, including hard-hit areas in New Jersey and New York. The images are available on Google’s Hurricane Sandy Crisis Response Map that was created for the storm, or by […]

Google Search and Google Maps inquiries will now also bring up critical local Amber Alerts in the user’s community to help authorities spread the word about child abductions as they happen. “Today we are launching Amber Alerts coordinated by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the Google Public Alerts platform,” wrote Phil […]

Google Drive has made sharing documents, images, presentations and more much easier for its users, who can now share them directly with others in Google+, the company’s social network. The new sharing capabilities for Drive, which were already available in Google+, were unveiled in an Oct. 31 post by Li-Wei Lee, a Google software engineer, […]