Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has added new features to its Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging services in a bid to make it easier for IT administrators to extract value from the log data generated by their cloud- hosted systems and applications. The three new features, available in beta to Google’s Cloud Platform customers, are a logs-based metrics feature, […]

Google added a second member to its recently introduced OnHub router family, this one built by Taiwanese hardware maker Asus. The new Asus OnHub router is similar in looks and capabilities to the introductory OnHub model built by China’s TP-Link Technologies that Google released in August. It has the same narrow, lampshade-like shape of its […]

Google has launched an open-source project in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and Mercy Corps to help Syrian and other refugees navigate language, transportation, lodging and other issues in the countries they arrive in. The effort is dubbed Crisis Info Hub and is designed to disseminate critical information in a mobile-friendly manner to refugees […]

Google on Oct. 22 announced better than expected financial results for its third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2015, citing substantial growth in mobile search revenue and strong contribution from its programmatic advertising programs and YouTube. Alphabet, Google’s holding company, announced consolidated revenue of $18.68 billion for the third quarter of 2015, up 13 percent from […]

Some Internet users conducting search queries on Yahoo’s search service will have Google serving up their results in the background under an agreement between the two companies earlier this week. In a regulatory filing Oct. 20, Yahoo described the services agreement as one under which Google will provide text and image search services to Yahoo […]

Google is tightening its policy for handling emails that fail the authentication checks of the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) standard. Starting June 2016, Google’s policy will be to reject outright all emails that fail the DMARC checks to protect against domain spoofing attacks, a company executive said Tuesday. “Google is committed to […]

Google has launched its new short-duration Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree program that is designed to help software developers learn how to take their app ideas from the design stage to market. Google’s mini degree program, designed in collaboration with online course provider Udacity, takes four to seven months to complete with a minimum commitment of 10 […]

Google has launched a new incentive program for businesses that are on the fence about migrating to the company’s suite of productivity apps. Starting this week, Google will let any business that has an existing enterprise agreement with another software vendor try out Google Apps for free for the remainder of their contracts. The company […]

In a significant legal victory for Google, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Oct. 16 that the company’s massive project to make digital copies of tens of millions of books does not violate copyright laws. The opinion, by a three-judge panel of the appellate court, affirms an earlier decision by a […]

One of the reasons why Google Translate has emerged as the mostly widely used online language translation tool is the constant refinements and updates that Google has made to it since the app first became available in 2006. A couple of updates announced this week serve as the latest examples. One of them is a […]