Jaikumar Vijayan

Google Glass, one of Google’s most spectacular consumer flops, is making a comeback, this time in the form of a wearable computer designed specifically for use in industry and health care. Glass Enterprise Edition is a lightweight computer with a transparent display that can be clipped onto a pair of eyeglasses or safety goggles. The […]

The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office Monday ruled that Google’s DeepMind division failed to comply with relevant data privacy laws when handling personal health data belonging to some 1.6 million patients. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, a group of three hospitals provided the data to Google as part of a clinical safety testing […]

Google thinks its cloud computing technologies provide an ideal platform for collecting and analyzing data from connected cars for all kinds of new use cases in the future. In a just released solution guide the company described how its cloud services could be harnessed to power new automotive applications such as usage-based insurance, predictive maintenance […]

Google and cloud services provider Nutanix have entered into a partnership designed to help organizations deploy and manage enterprise application workloads in hybrid cloud environments. The partnership will make it easier for customers of both companies to access native cloud applications and on-premises applications as a unified cloud service, Google and Nutanix said in statements […]

Canada’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling requiring Google to remove search results worldwide pointing to websites being operated by a technology company accused of pirating a rival’s intellectual property. The ruling is sure to come as a disappointment to rights groups who have previously noted that such a decision would essentially mean […]

The European Commission Tuesday slapped Google with a record $2.7 billion fine for abusing its search engine dominance to promote its own comparison-shopping site over that of rivals. The Commission has given Google 90 days to change the manner in which it displays links to rival sites in search engine results or face additional penalty […]

Google has added a couple of security updates to the WebView feature in Android for displaying web content inside a mobile application. The updates are designed to better protect mobile applications from browser-borne threats and will become available in the WebView that is integrated with Android O, the next version of the mobile operating system. […]

Google general counsel Kent Walker this week called for fundamental changes to statutes governing law enforcement requests to customer data stored by Internet companies like itself. In a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.—an excerpt of which was posted on the company’s The Keyword blog—Walker described current laws governing digital evidence gathering on […]

Customers of the Google Cloud Platform that want extra assurance about the security and integrity of their critical business data can now get software giant SAP to act as a custodian for them. Google and SAP announced a partnership earlier this year aimed at ensuring that SAP’s wide portfolio of enterprise software technologies run optimally […]

Employment seekers now have one more option to search for jobs that match their interests, requirements and qualifications. Starting this week, people can use Google search on desktop or mobile devices to look for and find jobs posted across the web, social media and numerous job sites, including CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Monster, Glassdoor and Facebook. By […]