Jaikumar Vijayan

Consumer Watchdog, a long-time critic of Google’s privacy policies, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over what it described as the company’s failure to offer a “right-to-be-forgotten” option to Internet users in the United States. In a letter addressed to FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, the rights advocacy group said that Google’s stance […]

Google began pilot tests of its autonomous cars in Austin, Texas, a sign the company may be ramping up efforts to bring the vehicles to the market relatively quickly. In a brief note on its Self-Driving Car Project page on Google+, the company said it has started testing one of its custom-rigged, self-driving Lexus SUVs […]

Google apparently is all set to launch a new carpooling service for office workers in major cities around the world. Dubbed RideWith, the service will link people looking for a ride to their place of work and back with drivers making the same trip, Israel’s Haaretz reported on Monday. Google will launch a pilot version […]

Google has released a new application that company officials said will allow IT administrators to manage applications running on Google’s Cloud Platform using their mobile phones. The new Google Cloud Console mobile application is currently only on Android but will soon be available for iOS users, as well. Google Cloud Platform product manager Stewart Fife […]

Google is making it easier for enterprises to do application load tests at scale using the cloud as test infrastructure. Starting this week, organizations will be able to use Google Cloud Platform, application containers and the company’s Kubernetes container cluster management software to test how their infrastructure will hold up under different application workloads. The […]

Google today dismissed a study, which two academic researchers conducted and Yelp sponsored, that claims the company is deliberately degrading search engine results in order to favor its own content over that of rivals. In a statement to eWEEK, Google said Yelp’s claims are not new. “Yelp’s been making these arguments to regulators, and demanding […]

Laws that require organizations to store customer data in a specific country or geographic location undermine many of the economic benefits of cloud computing, Google said, quoting a new report from the Leviathan Security Group. Data localization laws run counter to the direction of technological innovation and erode the cost-efficiencies of a distributed cloud hosted […]

Google will build its 14th major data center on the site of the Widows Creek coal power plant in Jackson County, Alabama. The plant is scheduled to be shut down and Google intends redevelop the site to erect its new $600 million data center. The company will reuse existing electric and other infrastructure where it […]

Google has removed an audio listening component from the Chromium open source browser after some developers complained the code was being quietly installed and activated on the browser without the user’s knowledge or consent. However, the company flatly denied the so-called hotwording component was doing the same on its proprietary Chrome browser, and insisted that […]

Cloud vendors are rushing to enable support for application containers on their platforms amid what appears to be surging enterprise interest in containerization as a way to improve application portability and delivery. One example is Google, which this week announced beta availability of its Google Container Engine for helping DevOps teams and IT administrators more […]

Google has launched a new portal dubbed News Lab that seeks to connect journalists with tools, programs and data to aid in their reporting. In a blog post Monday, the director of the new site, Steve Grove, described News Lab as an effort to empower better journalism through the innovative use of new digital technologies […]

Engineers from Google and the other major browser makers, including Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla, are working on a new standard dubbed WebAssembly (wasm) for running compiled code in Web browsers. When complete, WebAssembly will be a new machine-readable instruction set, or bytecode, that will let non-JavaScript source code run more efficiently in modern browsers. WebAssembly […]