Jaikumar Vijayan

Google released a new version of its Chrome browser for Apple’s iOS operating system that it says delivers significantly better performance and reliability than the previous browser version. iPhone and iPad users accustomed to dealing with frequent Chrome crashes on their devices will now experience far fewer such disruptions while using up less of their […]

Several Google services including Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs appear to have experienced a widespread disruption early Tuesday morning. Reports on Google’s App Status dashboard show the disruption lasted for about 90 minutes before the company was able to restore normal service levels. Google did not respond immediately to a request seeking comment on […]

Enterprises using Red Hat’s OpenShift Dedicated managed container application platform technology will soon be able to build and host their applications on Google’s Cloud Platform. The two companies last week announced a deepening of their existing relationship under which they will work together to integrate OpenShift Dedicated with Google’s Cloud Platform services. The effort will […]

Reports this week that Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to make its search bar the default choice on iPhones confirms previous speculation about an existing revenue-sharing agreement between the two technology giants. It also sheds some light on the enormity of the revenues and profits at stake for search engine companies and Internet […]

Google has proposed that its Dataflow technology for writing programs for large-scale data processing jobs be considered for inclusion as an Apache Software Foundation Incubator project. The goal is to foster more collaborative effort and governance around the technology so it can be used to enable the development of data pipelines that are portable across […]

As Google prepares for the official launch of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) sometime over the next few weeks, the company has some fresh tips for content publishers on how to prep their Web pages for the new framework. The company on Jan. 20 unveiled a preview of an error report function in the Search Console […]

Google joined a slew of technology companies, legal professionals and intellectual property experts in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a design patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung that has already cost the latter some $548 million in damages. In amicus briefs filed last week, Google, along with Facebook, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, eBay and […]

Google-owned smart thermostat maker Nest has released a software update to address an issue causing the battery in some of its devices to either shut down completely or behave in an erratic manner. The over-the-air update has been pushed out automatically and should alleviate the situation for a “vast majority” of affected customers, Nest spokesman […]

Apple for years has provided software developers with the ability to use promo codes to promote their paid iOS or Mac applications. Developers can basically use the codes to provide a potential customer or a reviewer with a free copy of their software. The codes are usually redeemable through any outlet where the app is […]

Google has fixed a total of 69 bugs in its latest update to Google+ for Android. But that’s unlikely what users are going to be noticing the most with the new Google+ Android 7.0.0. Rather, it is the multiple tweaks that the company has made to the app that is likely to garner more attention. […]

Data that Google submitted recently to the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows that during road tests over a 14-month period, the company’s autonomous cars had to hand over control to a human driver on 272 occasions because of potential safety issues. In addition, a human driver had to disengage autonomous control on 69 other […]

Google and other businesses could start using small commercial drones to deliver products in urban areas starting as early as next year. That’s according to David Vos, head of Project Wing at Google X, the semi-secret lab that houses several of the company’s moonshot projects. CNN on Jan. 11 quoted Vos at an industry event […]