Jaikumar Vijayan

Internet users who want to surf the Net in incognito mode usually have to explicitly enable the appropriate privacy settings in their browser to avoid being tracked. A new technology from Google may soon eliminate that step. The Internet giant has just been granted a patent for a method that would enable private browsing automatically […]

Google has extended the functionality of its Google Sheets with an add-on that lets users access Google Analytics data directly from the spreadsheet. The goal is to make it easier for Google Analytics users to export data to Sheets, where they can analyze it or combine it with data from other sources, Google Analytics programs […]

World travelers and anyone struggling with a foreign language will soon have to worry a little less about getting lost in translation. Well, at least if they own an Android or an iOS device. Google has updated its Translate application for the two operating systems with features that it said are capable of doing better […]

Last May, Google announced that it would work with Stackdriver to integrate the latter’s cloud application monitoring functionality into the Google Cloud Platform. Since then, Google has been integrating and testing the service with select alpha users. Starting this week, all users of Google’s Cloud Platform will finally have access to the service. On Jan. […]

The Supreme Court has asked U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli for the government’s opinion in a closely watched dispute between Google and Oracle over whether copyright protections should extend to application programming interfaces (APIs). Oracle sued Google back in 2010 over the latter’s use of certain Java APIs in its Android operating system. In its […]

Figures released by Google this week showing barely anyone using its new Android Lollipop mobile operating system even six weeks after its release is likely an embarrassment for the company. But there are a few reasons that might explain the slower than expected uptake, one analyst said Friday. Google released Lollipop in early November touting […]

Google Wednesday released a beta version of a software-debugging tool that it says will give application developers a way to quickly diagnose performance bottlenecks in production applications running on the company’s cloud computing platform. Google Cloud Trace works with applications running on Google App Engine or using a Google Cloud Platform managed virtual machine. It […]

Google’s share of the U.S. search market has dropped to its lowest level since 2009, as what appears to be the direct result of Mozilla’s decision in November to make Yahoo the default search engine on its Firefox browser. Figures released Jan. 7 by Website analytics firm StatCounter show that Google’s search market share in […]

A new report from investment bank and asset management firm Piper Jaffray holds mixed news for Google’s cloud services business. Piper Jaffray recently surveyed 112 Chief Information Officers on their IT priorities for 2015 and found that their enthusiasm for Google’s public cloud offering has waned a bit over the past year compared to offerings […]

Buoyed by the market response to its Chromecast technology for streaming video from PCs and mobile devices directly to the TV, Google this week released a similar product for streaming audio to speakers. Google Cast for audio is designed to let users stream music from their phone, tablet or laptop computer to speakers, receivers and […]

Google’s ambitions of becoming a key player in the home automation market appear to be taking shape with products from its subsidiary Nest Labs now able to interact with smart home products from more than a dozen vendors. Nest on Jan. 5 released a list of 16 vendors whose home automation products are now capable […]

State-run Chinese newspaper the Global Times Tuesday said that Google may be at least partly to blame for a Gmail service outage in the country for the past several days. In an opinion piece, the newspaper said that it was the Internet giant’s continuing unwillingness to obey Chinese laws that may have prompted the government […]