Jaikumar Vijayan

Businesses using Google’s OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider service to authenticate users to software-as-a-service applications in the Google Apps Marketplace now have a way to enable single sign-on support for a broader set of SaaS and custom-built applications for desktop and mobile devices. The company on Oct. 13 announced that it has enhanced its OIDC […]

The developer community has been a key focus area for Google in its strategy to drive broader enterprise adoption of the company’s Cloud Platform service. Over the past couple of years, Google has released a variety of new tools and services to help developers build, run and manage applications on its hosted cloud services infrastructure. […]

Just because Google keeps periodically releasing new versions of its Android mobile operating system, as it did with Android 6.0 Marshmallow recently, does not mean that device vendors and users are keeping pace. In fact, the vast majority of Android devices in use globally are on versions of the operating system that are at least […]

Google has begun applying knowledge from its work in deep neural network (DNN) technology to improve the quality of thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to see whether recent DNN advances in areas like image and video processing can be applied to improve Google’s automatic YouTube thumbnail generator so people can find videos more easily. […]

Google has acquired a stake in a German research organization that specializes in artificial intelligence technologies, presumably with a view to enhancing its own capabilities in that space. The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) this week announced that Google’s operating unit in Germany had purchased a share of the organization for an undisclosed […]

Google has launched an open-source initiative dubbed Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that is designed to give publishers a way to load their content faster on mobile devices. Central to the effort is AMP HTML, a new framework built out of existing Web technologies that Google says will give Website owners a way to build lightweight […]

Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator has given Google one month to comply with an order requiring the company to stop giving preferential treatment to its own apps on Android-powered smartphones and tablets sold in the country. If Google does not comply by the end of the deadline, the company could be subject to a potentially heavy fine. […]

Google today started rolling out its Android 6.0 Marshmallow mobile operating system to users of its Nexus devices. Key among the new features available with the operating system is Google Now on Tap, a digital assistant that serves up contextual information to users as they use an application or service. Also new with Marshmallow are […]

Google’s Cloud Launcher, announced earlier this year, provides businesses with a library of open-source packages that can be deployed on the company’s cloud platform with just a few clicks. On Oct. 2, the same day that Google formally became part of holding company Alphabet Inc., the company announced that it was expanding Cloud Launcher by […]

Google has added a new U.S. region for several of its Cloud Platform Services. The new region, dubbed us-east, will be hosted out of Google’s data center in Berkeley County, S.C., and is designed to improve cloud latency times and performance for customers on the East Coast. Google will use the data center to host […]