Jaikumar Vijayan

By the year’s end, Google hopes to have on the road the first few of what will eventually be about 100 new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans featuring the company’s self-driving car technology. As a first step in that direction, Google has entered into a collaborative agreement with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) under which the […]

Google has updated its Android keyboard application with several new features designed to improve usability and accessibility. The new Google Keyboard 5.0 represents a major overhaul of the application. It features changes to the keyboard user interface, layout and manner in which users can interact with it and input data using the application. The new […]

Google has acquired Synergyse, the developer of an interactive training app for customers of Google Apps for Work. In a statement May 2, Google did not disclose details of the acquisition but said that Synergyse’s virtual coach for Google Apps will now be available for free to all customers of Google Apps for Work and […]

The people most at risk of downloading Android malware on their mobile devices are those who install apps from unofficial third-party mobile application stores. But that doesn’t mean that those who download apps from Google’s official Google Play store are completely immune to malicious software. PhishLabs, a company that provides anti-phishing services, this week said […]

Machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities of the sort displayed by Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo system, which recently beat one of the world’s top professionals at the ancient Chinese game of Go, will play a key role in Google’s future. That’s the view of CEO Sundar Pichai, who on April 28 shared the company’s high-level vision […]

Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a Washington-based watchdog group focused on exposing undue corporate influence in government, has turned its attention to Google. The group this week launched a Google Transparency Project in a bid to shine a light on the Internet giant’s alleged influence on public policies, on the government and on consumers in general. […]

Google has extended an incentive program it has in place for businesses that currently might have contracts with other vendors to switch over to the company’s Google Apps cloud productivity suite for free. Google launched the incentive program last October in a bid to get more organizations to try Google Apps. Since then, more than […]

As it does relatively frequently with other topics, Google recently released a set of guidelines to help organizations ensure that any payment processing applications of theirs running on top of Google’s cloud platform comply fully with the requirements of the PCI DSS. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard refers to a set of security […]

Google parent company Alphabet’s stock dropped more than 5 percent in trading on Friday following the company’s release of its first-quarter results last night that showed both its revenues and earnings coming slightly under Wall Street estimates. But technology and financial analysts generally dismissed the slide as a case of temporary jitters and said there’s […]

As part of its Safe Browsing campaign, Google has routinely used Web notifications, search alerts and direct emails to warn webmasters of potentially unsafe content on their Websites. Between July 2014 and June 2015, such alerts and communications covered some 761,000 Websites—many of them personal blogs and pages belonging to small businesses. In many cases, […]