Jaikumar Vijayan

Google makes billions of dollars from web advertising. But the company has long claimed it does not hesitate to take down ads that it considers misleading, harmful or inappropriate. New figures and data released by the company this week shed some fresh light on that claim. In 2016, Google blocked 1.7 billion ads for violating […]

Schools that have been purchasing Chromebooks for students and educators in recent years will soon have an opportunity to refresh their technology with newer models featuring support for Android applications. At the Bett education technology conference in London this week, Google announced a new generation of Chromebooks designed specifically for the education sector. The laptops […]

Google has added a fresh set of features to its Google Voice internet telephony service including support for group and photo multimedia messaging services (MMS) and in-notification replies. The update is the first that Google has made to Google Voice in over five years and will become available to users of the app around the […]

If Android applications continue to be the most targeted by attackers because of the software flaws they contain, It won’t be a lack of effort on Google’s part to help developers make their products more secure. A case in point is the company’s Google Play App Security Improvement (ASI) program designed to help developers protect […]

Google offered a tutorial of sorts for webmasters trying to figure out how to optimize their sites for web crawling and indexing by Google’s search engine bot. Web crawling, as Gary Illyes, a member of Google’s crawling and indexing teams explained in a blog this week, is the entry point for sites into Google’s search […]

Google is making it easier for organizations to keep track of user and administrator activity across almost its entire stack of enterprise cloud applications and services. The company this week announced beta availability of its Cloud Audit Logging technology on Google Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud DNS, Storage, Cloud Key Management Services and other cloud […]

Google has agreed to acquire Fabric, Twitter’s application development platform for an undisclosed amount of cash. Once the deal is approved, Fabric’s team will join Google’s Developer Products Group and work with the company’s Firebase application development platform team. “Fabric and Firebase operate mobile platforms with unique strengths in the market today,” Fabric’s vice president […]

Data security and trust have long been major concerns for organizations considering cloud-computing options. In an apparent bid to allay these fears among its customers at least, Google has released a new whitepaper enumerating the complex multi-layered strategy the company uses to protect enterprise data in the cloud. The paper shows that Google has deployed […]

Google is updating some features on its Google Play Store so enterprises can more easily use the app to distribute in-house and custom developed Android applications to their employees. Google Play offers a so-called Private Channel feature that lets Google apps administrators host internal Android applications and control access to specific users or groups of […]

Google parent Alphabet’s semi-secret X division has quietly killed off Project Titan, a drone initiative that the company had once touted as offering a new way to deliver or boost Internet connectivity in remote, poorly served and disaster areas. Members of Titan Aerospace, a drone manufacturer that Google acquired in 2014 to enable the effort, […]

Organizations looking for an alternative to managing data encryption keys in-house now have a new option to consider. Google this week rolled out a new cloud hosted key management service for enterprise customers of its cloud platform. The service is available starting this week in beta form in about 50 countries, including the U.S., Australia, […]

A recent Google patent application suggests that the company may indeed be considering the use of autonomous vehicles in the ride-sharing space as some have speculated in recent months. The patent application published on Dec 22, 2016 is titled “Determining Pickup and Destination Locations for Autonomous Vehicles”. It describes a system for determining if a […]