Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has released more tools to help Microsoft .NET developers access and manipulate resources in Google’s Cloud Platform environment. The company Sept. 12 announced a new set of Cloud Tools for PowerShell that is designed to let developers script, automate and manage Windows workloads on Google’s cloud platform. According to Google, the new Cloud Tools […]

In its self-assumed quest to make the internet a safer place for everyone, Google will soon start publicly shaming websites that fail to use the HTTPS protocol for transmitting passwords and other sensitive data. But instead of a scarlet letter, Google will shame them by marking their websites as “non-secure” so users know clearly that […]

Google and enterprise file hosting service Box have entered into a product integration partnership to enable what they described as a seamless cloud collaboration experience for users of their products. Under the partnership, Box will integrate its cloud file storage technology with Google Docs and Google Springboard, Google’s recently launched enterprise search technology. The integration […]

With Google starting the rollout of its Android 7.0 Nougat to Nexus devices, the company this week reviewed some of the security enhancements it has incorporated in the mobile operating system. Key among them are a new direct boot mode, a hardened media stack, improvements to the way Android handles Trusted Certificate Authorities, stricter enforcement […]

Google’s services have become a little faster across Asia, courtesy of a new high-speed undersea cable linking the company’s largest data center in that continent with its data centers in the United States. The new fiber-optic cable should help Google Apps, Cloud Platform and other Internet services load up more quickly across the region and […]

Google’s Waze Carpool rideshare service for office workers, which launched in limited mode in the San Francisco Bay area last week, actually marks the second major test of the concept for the company in the past year. Last July, Google quietly began pilot tests of an identical service in Israel called RideWith for linking people […]

European Union lawmakers are considering a proposal that would let news publishers and copyright owners in member states hit companies like Google with fees for using their content in anchoring search results and delivering other services. The proposal is one among many covering the rights of content publishers in the digital age contained in a […]

Google is making it easier for Android users to search for information stored in applications that are installed on their devices via a new “In Apps” search mode. In Apps, which Google announced this week, currently works only with a fairly limited set of applications like Gmail, YouTube and Spotify. It functions much like Google’s […]

Google has officially adopted the United States and European Union’s Privacy Shield framework governing the transfer of personal data from the EU to the United States during the course of international commerce. The company this week submitted certification to the U.S. Department of Commerce confirming its commitment to applying Privacy Shield requirements when handling and […]

Users of Google’s Nexus devices will soon have the option of enabling their smartphones or tablets to automatically use free open WiFi hotspots where available to supplement their regular cellular service. The company on Friday said that it has begun rolling out Google’s WiFi Assistant to Nexus users in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, […]

Reports this week that Alphabet CEO Larry Page wants Google’s Fiber operation to be scaled down substantially because of its disappointing performance so far appear to be somewhat at odds with recent comments and developments related to the broadband service. In an Aug. 25 report, The Information said that Page had recently ordered Google Fiber’s […]

Google wants the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a patent infringement dispute involving its Chrome browser. In a petition filed earlier this month, the company asked the Supreme Court to consider whether an appeals court’s view on how claims made in a patent application should be interpreted is in fact valid. The case […]