Todd R. Weiss

Three Websites that allegedly sell pirated copies of Android apps have been shut down and seized by U.S. government authorities as part of ongoing efforts to battle online software piracy and counterfeiting around the world. The seized Web domains–Applanet.net, Appbucket.net and Snappzmarket.com–all now only display a “seizure banner” from the FBI and the U.S. Department […]

Google is ending its stand-alone Postini email security offering and merging it into its Google Apps products as part of a consolidation move to simplify its services. The move comes almost five years after Google purchased Postini in September 2007 for about $625 million. Since the acquisition, Google has been integrating Postini’s products, personnel and […]

With its eagerly awaited iPhone 5 slated for release in September and its ongoing patent legal fight with Samsung nearing the home stretch, Apple already has a lot on its plate. So it needs a new patent lawsuit from Google’s Motorola Mobility unit like a hole in the head, according to IT analysts. But a […]

Though Microsoft’s search engine usage in the United States increased slightly by 0.01 percent since June, Google still dominates Web search with 66.8 percent of the U.S. market, according to the latest July 2012 figures from Web analytics firm ComScore. The latest monthly ComScore qSearch search engine rankings for July continue to be led in […]

Finding much faster ways to complete Hadoop queries for enterprise users is the aim of “Drill,” the latest open-source project being undertaken by the Apache Software Foundation. Drill has been established as an Apache Incubator Project, opening its continued development up to software engineers around the world, according to Tomer Shiran, director of product management […]

A spectacular new 360-degree panoramic photo of Mars is now viewable from NASA’s Curiosity rover through Google Earth partner, 360cities.net. The new image was taken during the Mars rover’s second full day on the surface of the planet and displays the gritty, bright, tan-hued soil and rocks. The photo is the latest panorama from Mars […]

Almost seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, new images of the recovery and continued rebuilding have been posted by Google Street View as part of its work to bring fresh images to its extensive map operations. The new set of powerful images “helps […]

Microsoft has apparently repaired a “hiccup” with its newly rebuilt Windows Phone Dev Center that prevented the publishing of new phone apps to the site for about two days. App publishing was temporarily put on hold during the glitch, which was originally reported Aug. 14 in a post by Microsoft’s Todd Brix on The Windows […]

Google has made it easier for people to use its Voice Search feature for Android in native languages around the world by adding another 13 languages to the more than two dozen it already supported. “Voice Search is already available in 29 languages, and today, we’re bringing support to 13 new languages for Android users-bringing […]

There’s no way that developers who are seething about Twitter’s newly announced API changes could keep their comments to only a Twitter-friendly 140 characters. Instead, some developers quickly took to the Web to post much longer attacks about the new Twitter API policies, including a key provision that will now require permission from Twitter if […]