Jaikumar Vijayan

Customers of Google’s cloud services who are concerned about the security and privacy of their workloads can now use their own cryptographic keys to encrypt their data. The company has launched a beta version of its Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys for Google Compute Engine program that lets customers encrypt data using keys that are fully owned […]

Google this week announced the general availability of Cloud Storage Nearline, a service designed to let enterprises store very large quantities of important but infrequently used data at substantially lower costs than traditional offline storage. The company also launched a new Cloud Storage Transfer Service for helping organizations transfer data from Amazon and other cloud […]

Google is aiming to make it easier for organizations to stream high quality, on-demand video and audio content to global users of its cloud-computing platform. The company on Wednesday announced the availability of Wowza Media Systems’ Streaming Engine software as a click-to-deploy option on Google Cloud Platform. All of Wowza’s functionality, including its technology for […]

New export controls being considered by the U.S. government as part of a broader effort to prevent sophisticated surveillance software from being sold to rogue foreign governments could end up hurting legitimate vulnerability research efforts, Google warned Monday. In comments filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Google expressed concern over U.S. participation in a […]

Google’s Gmail team has improved how the email service handles spam and non-spam messages. The goal is to boost the company’s ability to detect spam while letting legitimate email go through. One way is by augmenting the machine-learning technology that the company has been using since the beginning to filter out spam, Sri Harsha Somanchi, […]

Google appears to have quietly released a $15 Ethernet adapter for Chromecast users with spotty WiFi connectivity. It’s unclear when the company released the device, but media reports about its availability appear to have resulted in the product being sold out on Google Store. Android Police first reported on the new device Wednesday along with […]

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 […]