Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has rolled out a new mobile application that it describes as a personalized vacation planner for people too pressed for time to do it on their own. Google Trips is available for immediate download on Android and iOS-based mobile devices and can help users plan daily activities while on vacation, even when they are […]

A single tweet by Evan Blass, a blogger known for leaking details on smartphones and other technology announcements, has fueled considerable speculation about Google launching its Allo smart messaging app this week. Blass on Sept. 18 tweeted that Google would roll out the app this week and later followed up with another tweet pinning the […]

Google this week expressed disappointment with proposed changes to European Union copyright laws that, among other things, would give EU news publishers the right to charge license fees for content that companies like Google use to anchor search results. In a post on Google’s Europe Blog, Caroline Atkinson, the company’s vice president of global policy, […]

Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit ethics watchdog group, has released a report suggesting that Google’s self-driving car program has benefited from the company’s close relationship with officials at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Transportation. The report stops short of suggesting any impropriety in the relationship but […]

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 […]