Todd R. Weiss

Apple and Samsung continue to swap legal blows with varying degrees of effectiveness in their relentless global war over alleged patent infringement. In the latest tussle, Apple won a round against Samsung on July 19 when a three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied a Samsung motion that […]

A new tool on YouTube will allow users to “blur” the faces of subjects before uploading them to the Website, all in the name of protecting people’s identities, whether it’s a child playing sports or an activist expressing an opinion at a protest rally. The anonymity capability was announced by Google’s YouTube unit in a […]

In its first revenue report since officially acquiring Motorola Mobility in May, Google posted second-quarter revenue of $12.21 billion, which is a 35 percent increase from the $9.03 billion the search company earned during the second quarter of 2011. The company released its fiscal 2012 second-quarter results July 19. The quarter ended June. 30 €œGoogle […]

After being available as a beta release for more than a year, Google’s new version of Analytics now officially replaces the old version that’s been both loved and cursed at by business users since its debut. “After a year of supporting both the old and new versions of Analytics, we are now fully transitioning and […]

Users of Mozilla Firefox 14 will now have a more secure Web browsing experience compared with other browsers since the latest version of the open-source browser conducts all Google searches using a secure HTTPS connection by default. The tighter Google search security is among a myriad of updates and improvements in the latest Firefox release, […]

After an embarrassing and distracting string of three CEOs just since January, Yahoo appears to be making a determined effort to get things back on track with its announcement July 16 that Google executive Marissa Mayer will now head Yahoo’s operations as CEO and president. The question that remains, however, is Mayer, 37, the right […]

Two weeks after proposing search engine configuration changes that could help avoid formal charges by European antitrust regulators, Google has again updated its proposed changes in hopes of resolving the case. “Google has submitted a revised package of concessions to address the concerns of Europe€™s top competition authority, bringing the talks to settle the EU […]

Since its online debut in early 2005, YouTube continues to grow as a news outlet for people who are expanding the ways in which they consume news coverage, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. And as that happens, YouTube is creating “a new kind of visual […]

All of the fascinating details about the futuristic, intricate technology behind Google’s Project Glass eyewear-mounted computer may not be splashed all over the Internet by the company, but if you know where to look, some answers are waiting to be found. Google’s patent application, which is listed online, reveals plenty of enticing details about the […]

The U.S. market for feature-rich smartphones is still expanding at a rapid clip, with two-thirds of new mobile phone buyers opting for devices that can do far more than their old-style flip phones, according to new research from Nielsen released July 12. Google€™s Android operating system is the beneficiary of this surge, although the iPhone […]