Jaikumar Vijayan

Taking a cue from Facebook, Google too has decided to ban all advertisements for crypto-currencies and related financial products on its online properties.  The policy will go into effect in June 2018 and includes ads pertaining to initial coin offerings, crypto-currency exchanges, wallets, and trading advice.  The ban is part of a new financial products […]

Google has introduced what it claims is a simplified pricing model for organizations using its Stackdriver Monitoring and Logging service to manage cloud workloads.  Highlights of the new model include a pay-as-you-go pricing option, volume-based pricing discounts and no-cost availability of Google Cloud Platform performance metrics.  The new pricing structure also brings some services that […]

Google is working on an alternative to its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format requirement for websites that want to ensure their content continues to get proper placement in mobile search results.  Malte Ubl, Google’s lead for the AMP Project on said March 8 that based on the company’s experience with AMP so far, Google is […]

Google is urging website owners to take immediate action to replace digital certificates issued by Symantec that the company has previously identified as being untrustworthy.  Starting with the April 17 release of Google’s Chrome 66 browser, all Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates that Symantec issued prior to June 1, 2016 will be fully […]

Google is not usually shy about touting its accomplishments in the artificial intelligence space, but one win that company does not seem particularly keen on broadcasting is a recent pilot project with the U.S. Department of Defense.  In a widely quoted report this week Gizmodosaid it had learned about Google quietly partnering with the DoD […]

In the world of quantum computing, the number of quantum bits, or qubits, that a processor can handle is one important metric of how powerful it is.  By that measure, Google this week established a landmark of sorts in previewing Bristlecone, a new 72-qubits quantum processor.  The processor surpasses a 50-qubit system that IBM announced […]

Google is using the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas this week to showcase its new Cloud Healthcare API and other recent developments in the health care sector. Among those developments is a new partnership as well as some security and compliance updates.  Health care is increasingly moving towards the […]

company first announced last year, is now generally available to customers of its G-Suite service.  Starting this week, organizations can use the feature to enable better collaboration among members of distributed project teams. Hangouts Chat, according to Google, supports team chat rooms, threaded conversations and sophisticated search functionality that allow organizations to manage and move […]

Enterprises using Google’s cloud load balancing to distribute their application workloads now have more control over how the service secures connections to client systems.  Google this week announced Secure Sockets Layer Policies for HTTPS and SSL Proxy Load Balancers, a new capability that gives administrators a way to specify the TLS version and profile of […]

Google this week released a beta version of Flutter, a new mobile application user interface framework that the company first announced last year.  Developers can use Flutter to speed up the process of building native mobile apps for both Android and iOS devices because applications and interfaces made with Flutter are built from a single […]

Google’s Compute Engine cloud platform unit has introduced new management features that the company says makes it easier for enterprises to create, clone and manage VMs.  One of the updates to Google Compute Engine’s so-called “instance templates” allows organizations to create virtual machine instances from existing templates. Organizations can use the capability to create VMs […]

Google has launched a new program under which it will certify Android devices that meet certain security and other requirements as being suitable for enterprise use.  The new Android Enterprise Recommended program is designed to give organizations more confidence in the enterprise readiness of Android devices for work purposes. The program, according to Google, establishes […]