Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has for sometime now used a variety of labels, such as ‘In-Depth’, ‘Opinion’, ‘Blog’ and ‘Local Source’ to identify different types of articles in Google News. Starting this week, it will use a new label, ‘Fact Check’, to identify news stories with content that has been fact checked by news publishers or by fact […]

Google this week claimed it has taken several measures to curb scammers from placing fake listings on Google Maps and Search and drawing organic traffic away from legitimate businesses. The measures are based on the findings of a year-long study the company conducted, along with researchers from the University of California, San Diego, into the […]

Google has rolled out a series of updates that it says will make it easier for enterprises to set up and efficiently run container workloads on the company’s cloud platform. Among them are new automated node management capabilities, general availability of Google’s Container Optimized OS and the release of Kubernetes 1.6, the latest version of […]

Google’s Android is now the most widely used operating system on the planet in terms of Internet usage. Numbers released this week by StatCounter show that Android nudged out Microsoft’s Windows from the top spot in worldwide market share for operating systems. In March, Android had a share of 37.93 percent compared to Microsoft’s 37.91 […]

Google has implemented more measures to address ad misplacement problems on YouTube that recently prompted several major brands to withdraw or suspend their advertisements from the video sharing platform. The company on Monday confirmed with eWEEK multiple media reports that it has begun using machine-learning tools to better flag objectionable videos on YouTube so the […]

Google has launched a new site that centralizes information on all of the company’s various open source projects and gives developers details on how it uses, releases and supports open source software. The new opensource.google.com website also contains a complete directory of all of the company’s open source projects together with information on how the […]

Co-authoring, a feature that first appeared in the web-based Office applications, is finally available in Excel on Windows desktops.  As its name implies, co-authoring allows multiple users to work on the same spreadsheet file at the same time. “This allows you to know who else is working with you in a spreadsheet, see where they’re […]

Ransomware has become a major threat on desktop and notebook systems, but has been somewhat less of a danger on mobile devices. Even so Google wants Android users to know what the company is doing and what they can do themselves to protect against the ransomware attacks before it becomes a widespread problem. In a […]

Internet giants like Google and Facebook that have made their fortunes in the targeted advertising space could soon face powerful new rivals. Congress this week is considering a resolution to roll back a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that would have prohibited wireless internet carriers such as Verizon and AT&T from selling data on their […]

Organizations using the Short Message Service (SMS) functionality in Google’s Hangout application for Android will soon need to find another app for the functionality. Effective May 22, Google will remove the carrier SMS functionality in Hangouts for Android. Administrators of enterprises affected by the move will soon receive notice of the impending change and will […]

Google’s problems with advertisers over ad misplacements on YouTube and other Google non-search properties appear to be mushrooming rapidly. This week Verizon, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and Enterprise Rent-A-Car joined a growing list of major companies to pull advertisements from Google after revelations that their ads were being placed next to jihadist and neo-Nazi videos […]

Google this week released a developer preview of Android O, the next version of its mobile operating system the includes several mostly incremental feature upgrades over the currently available version Android N also known as Nougat. Key among the upgrades are those that are designed to improve battery life, application notifications and the ability for […]