Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has released a new tool that it says lets Website owners test the mobile friendliness and speed of their sites and get fixes for any issues that might be identified in the process. To run a test, all that site owners or administrators have to do is type their URL into the tool, which […]

Google has made its Now on Tap feature in its Android 6.0 Marshmallow mobile operating system a little smarter. New features in Now on Tap, announced this week, will make it easier for users of devices running Marshmallow to get additional information and context on text, images, photos and other content that they may looking […]

Users of Google’s My Account hub for setting privacy and security preferences now have three additional options for accessing their controls and protecting their data. One of the new features gives users an additional way to locate their lost or misplaced Android and iOS devices. The other two features offer users new ways to access […]

Customers of Google Container Engine now have the ability to set up container clusters with nodes of varying configurations within them. Making the support for heterogeneous clusters possible is a new feature in Container Engine called node pools, which Google moved from testing into general availability this week. In a blog post, Fabio Yeon, software […]

A report this week that Google is compiling a list ranking Android handset makers by how quickly they apply updates to their devices has focused attention on the challenges the company faces in bolstering security across the fragmented Android ecosystem. Bloomberg on May 25 reported that Google is developing a ranking system designed to shame […]

Mobile users of Google Maps and Search could soon get more promoted content served up to them courtesy of changes the company has made to its Adwords advertising platform. In a post on Google’s Inside Adwords blog, Senior Vice President of Google Ads and Commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy said the updates enable local marketers to better […]

Tax authorities in France raided Google’s Paris offices May 24 in a dramatic escalation of an ongoing investigation of the company’s tax payment practices in the country. The Guardian described the raids as taking place in the early morning and involving some 100 investigators, including 25 IT specialists and five magistrates. The purpose of the […]

Google’s efforts to build Ara, a customizable smartphone with swappable modules for different functions, such as those that let users add a high-resolution camera or an additional speaker to their phones, are taking shape. However, consumers will have to wait at least until next year before the first model becomes commercially available, Google executives informed […]

Google has released new application programming interfaces (APIs) that it says will make it easier for developers to connect their applications and the data in them to Google’s Slides and Sheets apps. The APIs will give developers a way to take advantage of some of the features in both the Slides and Sheets apps to […]

Google has formally appealed an order from French data protection authority CNIL that calls for the company to apply the requirements of the European Union’s Right to Be Forgotten mandate on a global basis. The appeal urged France’s Supreme Administrative Court to review the case and dismiss the CNIL order against the company. In a […]