Jaikumar Vijayan

Anyone wondering just how much network capacity it takes for Google to deliver all of its myriad services might want to consider this: The company’s current-generation data center networks deliver enough bandwidth to read the entire scanned contents of the Library of Congress in less than one-tenth of one second. Amin Vahdat, a Google Fellow […]

Two years after Google announced beta availability of its App Engine for PHP, the company has finally made it generally available. The announcement means that the company’s App Engine service-level agreement and deprecation policy now cover PHP apps running on Google’s Cloud Platform. The general availability news was one of three updates pertaining to Google’s […]

Mobile carriers’ planned use of unlicensed spectrum bands for Long Term Evolution (LTE) services could crowd out other unlicensed services, such as WiFi, Bluetooth and ZigBee, that operate on the same bands, Google warned in a white paper that it submitted to the FCC last week. The rapid growth of mobile data services and bandwidth-hungry […]

Google is giving users of its Sheets software more options for visualizing and analyzing data in their spreadsheets. Among the new tools Google announced Monday for analyzing spreadsheet data was one that allows users to preview formula results instantly, as users type the formula. Dan Gundrum, Google product manager, described the feature as unique to […]

France’s main data protection authority, CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, has given Google 15 days to start applying EU’s “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) mandate on search results worldwide, or face potential sanctions. In a June 12 statement, CNIL said it has formally asked Google to start delisting links to search results […]

Google’s penchant for embarking on what many would consider “moonshot” projects has found fresh expression. The company has launched a new venture dubbed Sidewalk Labs that it says will focus on developing technologies for improving daily life for residents and businesses in cities. “Sidewalk will focus on improving city life for everyone by developing and […]

IT administrators now have one more way to delete Google business applications and data from personally-owned iPhones and iPads. Google on Tuesday announced the availability of a new iOS Account Wipe feature that is designed to let administrators perform selective wipes of Google Apps data from IOS devices, while leaving personal data untouched. Before, Google’s […]

JDA Software Group will use Google’s Cloud Platform technologies to deliver new supply chain management and data analytics services to its customers. Under a collaboration agreement announced June 10, JDA will employ Google’s App Engine, Cloud Dataflow and related technologies as the basis for a range of upcoming services. The collaboration between the two, announced […]

Google’s BigQuery cloud-hosted service lets enterprises run batch and real-time data analytics applications against really large data sets. Recently, the company announced several enhancements to the technology, including support for faster data streaming, new security controls and expanded availability of the service in Europe. Continuing in the same vein, Google this week announced new partner […]

Starting this week, iPhone and iPad users who use Google to search for items will get links to content from mobile applications in the results. The capability, available for about two years on Android, will basically let iOS users view search results, either directly from a Website or through their mobile apps. For example, when […]

Google initiatives—including its self-driving cars effort, its Project Loon balloon-powered Internet initiative and its project to develop contact lenses capable of reading blood sugar levels from tears—have earned the company a reputation for taking on “moonshot” projects with little immediate return. But those kinds of investments have kept, and will keep, the company at the […]

Google’s extensive data collection and user tracking practices have often put it at odds with the privacy community in recent years. So the company’s launch this week of a new Web dashboard that makes it easier for users to control the personal information that Google gathers about them is likely to come as a pleasant […]