Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has substantially expanded the number of development environments supported by its Google App Engine cloud-computing platform. Organizations can use the platform to develop and host web applications, mobile back ends and APIs using Node.js, Java 8, Ruby, Go 1.8 and Python 2.7 or 3.5. Beta support is available also for .NET Core and PHP 7.1 Developers […]

Google has made no secret of its plans to leverage data science and machine learning approaches to make its products and cloud services smarter and more intuitive to use. This week, the company expanded its presence in the emerging fields through the acquisition of Kaggle, a platform used by an estimated 800,000 data scientists and […]

Google is using its Next ’17 conference in San Francisco this week to showcase the enterprise readiness of its cloud service offerings. As part of the effort, the company this week announced that its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technology has been officially certified to run SAP HANA database and other mission critical SAP applications. The […]

Google this week announced general availability of a development tool that it says will allow organizations to more easily build container images regardless of the deployment environment. The company’s new Google Cloud Container Builder lets developers build software programs in any language and to pack the builds—or early versions of the programs—into Docker containers on […]

The government in Turkey has become the latest to open an investigation into Google’s business practices. The Turkish Competition Authority on Monday said it will examine whether Google’s application bundling requirements for Android handset makers are consistent with the country’s fair competition rules. The decision to open the investigation follows a reassessment of a complaint […]

An ongoing Google investigation into the use of deep-learning techniques in the field of digital pathology shows early promise the company said this week. Researchers from Google’s machine learning group are developing algorithms for the automated detection of breast cancer metastases from whole slide images of biological tissue samples. Using images supplied by the Radboud […]

A Google security researcher this week offered the first details on an effort by a 50-member volunteer team at the company last year to help patch more than 2,600 open-source projects against a critical vulnerability in a widely used Java process. A consultant at FoxGlove Security first drew attention to the so-called Java deserialization issue […]

Google, like rival Apple, has put considerable effort into ensuring that its official mobile application store is malware free, but that hasn’t totally stopped malware-laden apps from being uploaded to its store anyway. The latest case in point is the discovery of 132 Android apps in Google Play, with a bug in them. Security firm […]

Consumers in multiple cities around the country will soon have another option for getting broadcast and cable TV service. Google this week launched YouTube TV, a $35-per-month subscription service that will let users stream live content from more than 40 major cable and broadcast networks to their computers, mobile devices and TVs. Among the networks […]

Google’s efforts to make Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging available more widely on Android devices took another major step forward last week with more than two dozen carriers and mobile device makers agreeing to make the company’s Android Messages the standard messaging app for their subscribers. The announcement follows Google’s recent news about similar partnerships […]