Todd R. Weiss

Google CEO Larry Page still sounds hoarse when he talks, but he’s apparently back in the public spotlight after several months of lying low due to a recent health issue that had been described as the loss of his voice. However, Page is now ready to discuss issues ranging from privacy to the European Union. […]

Google usually keeps the contents of its data centers closed to prying eyes to protect the security of user data, and that’s meant that few outsiders have seen the innards of Google’s technological wonders. That changed literally overnight when Google unveiled a new virtual tour of the insides of its data centers so it could […]

Google is again being sharply criticized by European officials about how the search engine giant uses the data it collects about its online users who use their extensive services. “Google’s efforts to track users across services such as YouTube and Gmail do not meet European standards of privacy, officials announced Tuesday,” according to an Oct. […]

Google’s YouTube unit will bring the second presidential debate live Oct. 16 to groups of friends who gather in Google+ Hangouts to watch the event and make snarky comments among themselves. The first presidential and vice presidential debates were both streamed live on network television as well as online, including on YouTube’s Election Hub site. […]

Google is again at work trying to make it easier for users to find the information they are looking for, whether it is online in a Google Search or right in their Gmail in-boxes. For the second time since August, Google has unveiled a new “field trial” to let users try out a new service—the […]

Google could be hit with an antitrust case in the closing months of this year by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the government continues to probe the company’s operating practices in its search business. Four of the FTC’s commissioners “have become convinced after more than a year of investigation that Google illegally used […]

Leaked images of Google’s Maps App for iOS 6 have been posted by a San Francisco-based apps developer who claims that the images show some of the planned features of the hotly awaited Maps App for Apple’s latest mobile device operating system. “Oh boy! Here we go,” developer Ben Guild wrote in an Oct. 14 […]

Samsung and Apple continue to battle in court over patent-infringement claims, but Samsung has scored at least a notable victory involving its aging Galaxy Nexus smartphones. In a decision handed down Oct. 11, a panel of three federal appeals court judges overturned a preliminary injunction awarded to Apple in August that blocked Samsung’s sales of […]

The Firefox 16 Web browser is again available for downloads and installation, less than 24 hours after Mozilla removed the latest Firefox browser from its downloads page due to the discovery of a serious security flaw Oct. 10. The problem that caused Mozilla to pull Firefox 16 back from its distribution and update channels is […]

In late September, Google Docs announced plans to stop allowing users to save and export their Google Docs-created files using older 1997 to 2003 Microsoft Office file formats as of Oct. 1. But those plans have now been delayed until Jan. 31, 2013 due to complaints from users that they weren’t given enough time to […]