Todd R. Weiss

After previously filing lawsuits against Apple and Microsoft, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based company is now suing Google for allegedly infringing on one of its patents in Google’s Chrome mobile Web browser. EMG Technology alleges in its lawsuit that Google’s Chrome mobile browser illegally takes advantage of technologies that were invented by EMG’s leader, Elliot Gottfurcht, […]

The rumored smartphone line being undertaken by e-retailing giant Amazon.com could launch with a potential disadvantage: If they are built, the smartphones may not be available for sale until after this year’s holiday sales season. That’s because the timeframe for the start of production of the new devices is “late this year or early next […]

Support for Google Drive cloud storage and offline support of Google Docs are among the touted new features in the latest version of Google’s Chrome OS release€”dubbed Chrome OS 20€”which the search company detailed in a July 12 blog post. “The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 20 to the […]

Now that Android 4.1, or Jelly Bean, is beginning to show up on new devices, the next raw version of the open-source project has been released to developers so they can begin working on future updates and releases. In a blog post in the Android Building Google Group, Jean-Baptiste Queru, the technical lead of Google’s […]

The new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system is now officially available on the first devices to get the latest release of the mobile platform, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus HSPA+, or Evolved High-Speed Packet Access, smartphone. Coming just a few weeks after its big splash in late June at Google’s I/O Developer’s Conference, the rollout […]

Two Internet security researchers who recently reported their findings of an Android botnet that pushes spam to users’ Yahoo email accounts now say they might have jumped the gun. In an update from The Wall Street Journal, the two researchers aren’t as sure that their original claims about the alleged Android malware and botnet are […]

The Google Mini enterprise search appliance, the iGoogle personalized home page and several other Web-based services will be phased out by the company in the coming months as part of a Google services overhaul that began last September. The company is continuing to trim some products that are “not having the impact we strive for,€ […]

The long-running antitrust case against Microsoft by the European Commission may soon finally be completed after a European court upheld a $1 billion fine against the software giant that was originally announced four years ago. “In an appeals ruling, the General Court of the European Union rejected Microsoft’s request to dismiss the fine levied in […]

Google Maps had planned to start charging a service fee to some of its largest business users this year, but the abandonment of the platform by several key users in response has forced the company to slash its proposed pricing. “After several high-profile defections, Google is backpedaling somewhat on its coming fees for using the […]

When Google talks, people listen, and there will likely be a lot of listening all over the world, starting June 27 as the fifth annual Google I/O ’12 Developers Conference kicks off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. While Google is expected to focus a lot on Android for smartphones and tablets, there€™s much […]