Jaikumar Vijayan

Building on its recent moves in the life sciences market, Google Monday announced a partnership with French pharmaceutical company Sanofi on diabetes management-related technologies. The two companies will collaborate on finding new ways to treat and manage type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with Sanofi pairing its expertise in diabetes treatment and devices with Google’s […]

Google on Thursday predictably denied European Union charges that it was abusing its dominant position in the Internet search market to stifle rivals. Responding to a formal statement of objections (SO) filed against the company by European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager in April, Google said that its services had increased choice for European consumers […]

Google’s Container Engine service for managing Docker containers on its cloud platform has become generally available, meaning it is now fully backed by the company’s service-level agreements and other policies. Starting today, businesses seeking to run Docker containers on Google will be able to fully manage and orchestrate their container cluster using Container Engine. Google […]

Google has revamped its cloud-hosted BigQuery analytics service with features that the company says makes it more powerful and easy to use. BigQuery lets enterprise run batch and real-time data analytics applications against really massive data sets. Google itself describes it as a “No-Ops analytics database” that is designed to scale in seconds, requires little […]

Google’s Life Sciences team, known for its work on smart contact lenses for people with diabetes, will be spun off into an independent Alphabet company. Andy Conrad, currently the head of the Life Sciences team, will become the CEO of the new venture. “While the reporting structure will be different, their goal remains the same,” […]

More help is on the way for enterprises seeking to manage the proliferating use of Android-based mobile devices in the workplace. A slew of carriers, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, this week announced support for Google’s recently launched Android for Work program. Under the effort, the carriers will deliver tools and capabilities that […]

Customers of Google’s cloud services who are concerned about the security and privacy of their workloads can now use their own cryptographic keys to encrypt their data. The company has launched a beta version of its Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys for Google Compute Engine program that lets customers encrypt data using keys that are fully owned […]

Google this week announced the general availability of Cloud Storage Nearline, a service designed to let enterprises store very large quantities of important but infrequently used data at substantially lower costs than traditional offline storage. The company also launched a new Cloud Storage Transfer Service for helping organizations transfer data from Amazon and other cloud […]

Google is aiming to make it easier for organizations to stream high quality, on-demand video and audio content to global users of its cloud-computing platform. The company on Wednesday announced the availability of Wowza Media Systems’ Streaming Engine software as a click-to-deploy option on Google Cloud Platform. All of Wowza’s functionality, including its technology for […]

New export controls being considered by the U.S. government as part of a broader effort to prevent sophisticated surveillance software from being sold to rogue foreign governments could end up hurting legitimate vulnerability research efforts, Google warned Monday. In comments filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Google expressed concern over U.S. participation in a […]

Google’s Gmail team has improved how the email service handles spam and non-spam messages. The goal is to boost the company’s ability to detect spam while letting legitimate email go through. One way is by augmenting the machine-learning technology that the company has been using since the beginning to filter out spam, Sri Harsha Somanchi, […]

Google appears to have quietly released a $15 Ethernet adapter for Chromecast users with spotty WiFi connectivity. It’s unclear when the company released the device, but media reports about its availability appear to have resulted in the product being sold out on Google Store. Android Police first reported on the new device Wednesday along with […]