Jaikumar Vijayan

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. […]

Google has open sourced its Embedding Projector, a web application that gives developers a way to visualize data that’s being used to train their machine learning systems. Embedding Projector is part of TensorFlow, the machine learning technology behind some popular Google services like image search, Smart Reply in Inbox and Google Translate. The company released […]

When Google announced Assistant, its digital assistant technology earlier this year, CEO Sundar Pichai described it as critical to the company’s effort to enable a more conversation-based and artificial intelligence-centric computing model in coming years. This week, Google took one step toward executing on that vision by opening the development platform for the digital assistant […]

Red Hat’s OpenShift Dedicated container management technology is now generally available on Google’s cloud platform. That means enterprises seeking to build, launch, and manage applications using Red Hat’s technology can now get it as a managed service running on Google’s cloud. Under an arrangement between the two companies, Red Hat will act as the service […]

Google this week said it has reduced the size of its application updates by 65 percent using an approach that however, somewhat ironically, doubles the time it takes to apply them on end user devices. The company’s new file-by-file patching mechanism is designed to minimize the amount of data that end users have to download, […]

Sometime next year, the total amount of renewable energy that Google purchases from wind and solar farms will for the first time match the amount of electricity consumed by the company’s global network of data centers and offices. The milestone will not mean that all of Google’s data centers and offices will be powered solely […]

Google has rolled out a new tracking app that for once is not all about delivering targeted web advertisements to people. Rather, the company’s new ‘Trusted Contacts’ is a personal safety application that lets users share their location information with loved ones so they can be quickly located in an emergency. The app works even […]