Jaikumar Vijayan

Google announced on Nov. 19 multiple technology updates and a new partnership with content distribution network provider Akamai, aimed at improving network performance and service quality for customers of its cloud platform technology. Two of the updates, a new Cloud Router capability and a new Subnetworks feature, are designed to give enterprises better network management […]

Business interested in moving the data from five or more servers to Google’s Cloud Platform can take advantage of an offer of free migration service from Google and its partner CloudEndure. The offer applies to servers running on any Windows or Linux environment and regardless of whether the server workloads are running on physical, virtual, […]

Google’s search engine has begun crawling and indexing Facebook’s mobile application under a surprising partnership between the Internet rivals. Individuals conducting searches from mobile devices using Google will get some content from Facebook, including public profile data, served up in the results. Users who click on the links in these listings will be taken directly […]

Users of Google’s app for Android and iOS devices can now ask more complex, natural language questions when using voice search. The company says it has figured out a way to break down queries so that that the Google App voice search tool can understand the semantics of each component to better comprehend the true […]

People searching for a plumber or a handyman for repairs around the house will soon be able to use Google Search to find local home services professionals and book appointments with them. In its continuing effort to be a little bit of everything to everybody, Google has teamed up with online home services marketplace HomeAdvisor […]

Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet search company, wants European Union antitrust authorities to investigate Google’s business practices with respect to its Android mobile operating system. The company is calling for Google to unbundle Google Search, Maps and other services from the software it requires Android phone makers to install on their devices, Bloomberg Business reported Friday. […]

Internet users worried about Google publicly sharing their personal information now have a way of controlling what others can see of that information. The company has quietly rolled out a new About Me tool in which individuals can get a consolidated view of the personal data that Google has on them such as their birthday, […]

Using a mobile application in an area where Internet connectivity is spotty or doesn’t exist at all can be a frustrating experience, especially if you are using the app to explore a new place or get directions to a specific location. Google today announced a new offline capability for Google Maps that it says helps […]

Google has decided to release to the open-source community the machine learning system at the core of many of its services, including Google Translate, Smart Reply in Inbox and image search in Google Photos. Google’s second-generation machine learning technology, dubbed TensorFlow, is designed to run on everything from a single smartphone to thousands of data […]

Google is reportedly seeking to design its own smartphone chips in a bid to gain more control over what it sees as a rapidly fragmenting Android ecosystem. Earlier this year, Google spoke with some chip manufacturers apparently to gauge their interest in developing chips based on Google’s designs, The Information reported Nov. 5. Google is […]

Google this week found itself in the familiar position of defending itself in court against charges that it abused its dominant position in the Internet search engine market to the detriment of rivals. This time, the accusation is from Streetmap EU Limited, a British company that claims its online mapping service was decimated as a […]

A new feature in Google’s Inbox by Gmail will let users reply to emails faster by simply selecting a response from choices served up to them by the app based on the contents of each email message. The new Smart Reply feature, announced at the Web Summit event in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, will become available […]