Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has released a beta version of a message-oriented middleware tool for connecting disparate applications and services running on its Google Cloud Platform or on customers’ premises. Dubbed Google Pub/Sub, the middleware is designed to let distributed applications and services communicate with each other via real-time messaging. The middleware eliminates the need for developers to […]

Google is developing an Android payment platform to make it easier for developers to enable mobile payments in third-party applications and retail services. The company will soon launch Android Pay, a mobile payment framework designed to let application vendors as well as brick-and-mortar companies build a secure payment service on top of Android. Sundar Pichai, […]

Putting weeks of speculation to rest, Google on March 2 confirmed that it would soon launch a wireless service, using network infrastructure from other service providers. Several media reports quoted Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai as announcing the plans during a keynote address at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Phones on the Google […]

In a potentially far-reaching move, Google is tweaking its search engine algorithms to increase the ranking of Websites that are mobile-friendly. The change will go into effect April 21 and will impact mobile searches in all languages and countries where Google is available. On that date, users who conduct Google searches on their mobile devices […]

Google has scrapped its once-a-year Pwnium competition for bug hunters, replacing it with ongoing working exploits against Chrome OS, Flash and related software. Instead of an annual one-day event at CanSecWest, security researchers will now have an opportunity to disclose Pwnium style bug chains throughout the year via Google’s Chrome Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP). The […]

Google has launched an Android for Work program under which it has partnered with several vendors to deliver a range of enterprise mobility-management technologies for organizations looking to securely manage personally-owned Android devices in the workplace. Google will focus on four key mobility management technologies under the effort. For mobile devices running the Android 5.0 […]

Google is readying an enterprise version of its Inbox email in what appears to be a response to strong interest in the application among business users. Starting next month, Google will launch an early-adopter program for Google Apps customers interested in Inbox. The goal of the effort is to try and understand business needs, challenges […]

Apple’s impressive run with Apple Pay over the past few months appears to have galvanized Google’s efforts to grab some mind and market share of its own in the rapidly emerging mobile payment services space. The company on Feb. 23 said it has acquired technology and intellectual property from Softcard, a mobile payments venture established […]

A federal judge in California has thrown out an antitrust lawsuit seeking consumer class action status that accused Google of indirectly driving up smartphone prices and stifling innovation through anticompetitive behavior. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California charged Google with forcing Android smartphone manufacturers to make Google’s […]

Google’s Compute Engine cloud infrastructure hosting service suffered a nearly two-hour disruption between late Feb. 18 and early Feb. 19, impacting customers on a global scale. The disruption started at 10:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Feb. 18 and was resolved shortly before 1 a.m. PST on Feb. 19, a Google incident report noted. The […]

Google has filed public comments opposing a proposed change to procedural rules that would allow a federal judge to issue warrants for “remote access” searches of computers located inside the United States and anywhere else in the world under certain circumstances. In comments to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, Google warned that […]

Google’s enormous Internet footprint and influence have increasingly made it the target of numerous disputes overseas involving antitrust matters as well as free speech, privacy and copyright issues. Russian search engine firm Yandex is the latest with a beef against the company. In a complaint filed with the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service this week, Yandex […]