Jaikumar Vijayan

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 […]

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 […]