Jaikumar Vijayan

Google parent Alphabet’s efforts to put a fleet of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the sky over the next few years for tasks such as package delivery and pickup appear to be taking flight. The company’s Project Wing this week said it had successfully tested an air traffic management system it has been developing for […]

Antitrust authorities in Europe appear to be on the verge of slapping Google with what could potentially be a massive fine over the company’s alleged anticompetitive business practices. Reuters quoted unnamed sources as saying the European Commission has nearly completed its investigation into complaints that Google is using its search engine dominance to favor its […]

Google has released a new version of Spinnaker, an open-source software release management platform for deploying application code to the cloud. Video streaming giant Netflix originally developed the technology to enable continuous delivery of software updates to its hosted applications and services on Amazon’s cloud platform. In 2014 Netflix began working with Google and a […]

Google has sharply increased the cash rewards available to security researchers who find certain categories of vulnerabilities in its products. Starting this week, the company will award $200,000 to any researcher that can demonstrate a successful remote exploit against Google’s TrustZone and Verified Boot technologies. That number represents a four-fold increase over the $50,000 it […]

Sometime early next year, Google’s Chrome browser will stop showing ads on websites that are deemed as noncompliant with standards developed by a consortium of companies including Google, Facebook, Thomson Reuters and News Corp. To prepare web publishers for the move, Google this week released information designed to help them understand how the so-called Better […]

Starting this week customers of Google’s Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service platform will be able to run their workloads on cloud servers based on Intel Corp’s next generation Skylake processors. Skylake-based virtual machine (VM) instances can support up to 64 virtual CPUs and 455GB of memory. They are designed to run a range of highly compute-intensive workloads […]

Google has rolled out several security updates for enterprise users of Gmail. The updates include a new machine-learning-based phishing detection capability, click-time warnings for malicious links and warnings for unintended external replies. While Google has designed these security updates with enterprise users in mind, they will become available to all Gmail users. Also announced this […]

Google has removed dozens of Android applications from its Play mobile application store after security vendor Check Point Software discovered the apps were infected with malware that trick users into clicking on ads on a massive scale. Some of the applications that Check Point discovered appear to have been on Play store for several years […]

As a company that derives almost all of its revenues and profits from internet advertising, Google has a lot to gain from helping businesses better understand how effectively their marketing campaigns are working across Google’s online properties. Towards that end, Google this week introduced Ads Data Hub, a cloud-based measurement platform that according to the […]

Microservices architectures offer enterprises a way to break down large monolithic applications into a collection of smaller, more manageable applications or processes that communicate with each other via various application programming interfaces. A growing number of organizations have begun using the microservices approach as a way to make application development and delivery faster, flexible and […]

Google has made it easier for developers and merchants to enable Android app users to pay for purchases with their mobile devices. Effective immediately, developers can use the new Google Payment API to enable Android app users to pay for purchases with credit and debit cards saved to their Google Account. Users, according to Google […]

One of Google’s core strengths over the years has been its ability to deliver various services on top of its basic search engine technology, including things like business listings, image search and most recently Google Lens. Sometime in the next few weeks, the company will add a new capability that will let people search for […]