Jaikumar Vijayan

As expected, the first vehicles powered by Google’s self-driving technology will hit the roads later this month. The vehicles—a fleet of about 100 Chrysler Pacifica minivans developed in collaboration with Fiat Chrysler—will make their initial appearance in Phoenix, Ariz. and Google’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif. John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, the autonomous car startup […]

The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Google for allegedly failing to submit compensation information on its employees as required under equal opportunities hiring practices laws. The lawsuit filed with the Labor Department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges seeks to bar Google from bidding for government contracts until it provides the requested data. The Labor […]

Owners of Android powered TV’s will soon be able to interact with their systems using voice commands. Google this week announced plans to bring its voice-activated Google Assistant to Android TVs in coming months in keeping with the company’s commitment to integrate the digital assistant technology in virtually all of its products over the next […]

Google will work on integrating its collection of Android connectivity applications with Fiat Chrysler’s in-car entertainment system under a collaborative agreement between the two companies announced this week. The goal is to give owners of FCA vehicles a way to interact more easily with Android applications using the Uconnect 8.4 inch hands-free communication system in […]

For the second time in six months, Google along with Facebook and Twitter are targets of a lawsuit accusing them of providing material support for terrorists. The first time was in June, when the father of a man killed in the terror attacks in Paris last year, accused the three Internet companies of allowing extremist […]

Two privacy groups have formally accused Google of deceiving customers about the implications of a privacy policy change that the company made earlier this year. In a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), advocacy groups Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) alleged Google had forced the change on users “in a highly deceptive […]

Google has released a set of tests that developers can use to check some open source cryptographic libraries for known security vulnerabilities. The company has named the set of tests Project Wycheproof, after a mountain in Australia, which has the distinction of being the world’s smallest registered mountain. “The main motivation for the project is […]

Google has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as part of a continuing effort by the company to make its cloud platform more open. The move caps a series of initiatives that Google launched with the Cloud Foundry community this year such as the delivery of BOSH Google CPI, a cloud software deployment and management tool […]

Administrators in charge of Google’s G Suite range of productivity applications now have a new way of managing personally-owned iOS devices in the enterprise. Google this week introduced what it described as an agentless way to manage personal iPhones and iPads being used to access enterprise applications and data. Google’s new Basic Mobile Management option […]

Google’s move this week to spin out its self-driving car project into an independent entity called Waymo suggests the company is finally close to commercializing the technology after years of research and testing. Waymo will operate as an independent company under the Alphabet umbrella and focus on delivering technology that, according to its CEO John […]

Microsoft’s giant screen Surface Hub white board computer is a big technology investment. At nearly $21,999 for the 84-inch model and $8,999 for the 55-inch version, businesses are justified in performing a thorough evaluation before outfitting their conference rooms and other meeting spaces with the device. This winter, Microsoft is allowing enterprises to do just […]

People in Cuba will soon get better access to Google services within the country, courtesy of a new partnership announced this week between Google and ETECSA, Cuba’s government-owned telecommunications company. Under the agreement, ETECSA will use Google’s Global Cache service to cache high-bandwidth Google content like YouTube videos at a local level within the country. […]