Todd R. Weiss

With Google’s already sold-out I/O Developer’s Conference set to begin in San Francisco on June 27, the rumor mills are churning online that the splashy event will be the place where the next version of the next Android operating system€”Android 4.1€”is unveiled. The likely successor to the current Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android is […]

The 20-month-old legal fight between Apple and Motorola over alleged patent-infringement claims is now over after the trial judge dismissed the case after lashing some of Apple’s key legal arguments in his 38-page court decision. In his written opinion in the case, which was released June 23, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Posner criticized the […]

Dissatisfied with the pace of it€™s almost 2-year-old antitrust probe into Google’s search results rankings, the state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against the search company to get it to comply with previous document requests. In a lawsuit filed in Austin this week, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott “demanded that the Internet company cooperate […]

In an effort to expand its paid services to businesses, Google has unveiled a new “Google Maps Coordinate” application for Android devices that will allow businesses to track the locations of their mobile workers. The idea, according to a Google blog post by Daniel Chu, a senior product manager, is that companies will be able […]

In an effort to resolve an ongoing patent dispute with Microsoft related to Xbox entertainment systems and smartphones, Google’s Motorola Mobility division has made a public settlement offer to put the case to rest, according to a report by Bloomberg News. Under the offer’s terms, Motorola Mobility would pay 33 cents for every phone that […]

Google is starting and seeding a project to fight the extinction and loss of more than 3,000 endangered languages around the globe to help preserve the history, cultures and knowledge of mankind. The effort was announced today in a Google blog post by Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman, two managers of the company’s Endangered […]

Salesforce.com applications have been used by mobile workers for a long time to conduct their business on the road. But a new “mobile-first” approach by the company will now likely make it easier for developers to build Salesforce apps with a mobile focus. That’s the idea behind the company’s recently released Summer ’12 Salesforce application […]

Google+ may not yet have the audience size of Facebook or Twitter, but today’s announcement that the site is partnering with social media news reader Flipboard could certainly help Google+ begin to accelerate its user base. In a report on BusinessInsider.com today, Bradley Horowitz, a Google+ vice president of product management, unveiled the partnership plans […]

The number of requests that Google receives from governments around the world to remove what they argue is “offensive” content posted by users continues to increase, according to the search company’s “Google Transparency Report.” The June 18 report details the number of information requests that Google has received and describes whether the search company complied […]

A week after tentatively dismissing the ongoing patent-infringement case between Apple and Motorola involving the design of their mobile devices, a U.S. District Court judge has ordered a new hearing in the case for June 20, according to reports. The order, from Judge Richard Posner from the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois, reverses his […]