Jaikumar Vijayan

In a somewhat unusual collaborative effort, Google’s Android Wear operating system will power a new Intel microprocessor-based smartwatch from Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer. The three companies announced plans to partner on the watch at a press conference at the Baselworld Watch and Jewelry Show in Switzerland Thursday. “The effort signifies a new era of […]

Companies with large-scale deployments on Google’s cloud platform now have an easier way to configure and manage their virtual machine environments. Google introduced a “click to deploy” option for the open-source Puppet utility for configuration management in the cloud. The feature is designed to make it simpler for systems administrators to quickly set up the […]

Google has added a new review process for vetting Android applications for policy violations before permitting them on its Google Play application store. The company has apparently been using the process quietly for the past several months, but disclosed it only Tuesday in a blog post on its Android Developers Blog. The new process involves […]

A new system application in Android 5.1 Lollipop has some Google watchers wondering if the company might be planning to operate a VPN service for Android users. Tech website Pocketables discovered the application, dubbed “Google Connectivity Services,” when poking around the recently released Android firmware update on a Google Nexus 6. Pocketable’s reviewer placed a […]

Google services in some parts of the world were briefly interrupted Thursday morning as a result of a routing error at an Internet service provider (ISP) in India. As a result, traffic bound for Google from different parts of the world was incorrectly routed through India for some time, causing service delays and interruptions for […]

Google has made it more affordable for organizations to back up and store virtually limitless amounts of business data that is rarely used, but is too important to discard. Unlike traditional offline storage services that businesses typically use for long-term data storage, Google’s new Cloud Storage Nearline allows companies to access and retrieve backed up […]

By adding a critical new security function to its latest Android 5.1 update to Lollipop, Google is building on efforts to make its mobile operating system more enterprise friendly. Earlier this year the company launched an Android for Work program that is enabling multiple partners to integrate key enterprise mobility management capabilities into Android. Under […]

A reported plan by Google to develop a new version of Android for virtual reality headsets is the latest sign of the growing interest in this market among major technology vendors, according to IT industry analysts. The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that Google has already assembled a secret team of “tens of engineers” […]

In an unlikely pairing, Microsoft and Google have agreed to work together on Angular 2, a new version of Google’s JavaScript application framework for building websites and applications. Under the partnership, the companies will work on merging their two separate JavaScript technologies into one common platform. Google will drop its work on AtScript, a JavaScript-based […]

Researchers at Google and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed what they say is a reliable approach for addressing one of the many challenges involved in building quantum computers. The breakthrough involves a method for detecting and preventing certain types of computational errors that occur when quantum memory elements are disturbed in […]