Jaikumar Vijayan

About eight weeks after Google introduced its Google Fiber gigabit speed broadband Internet and TV service in Austin, the company is reportedly getting ready to do the same in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. A formal announcement could come as soon as this week, and work on the project could start April, WRAL Techwire said, […]

In recent months, Google has rolled out several services to make it easier for developers to run Docker containers on its Cloud Platform. Examples include a hosted container management platform called the Google Container Engine; container-optimized Google Compute Engine images; and Kubernetes, an open-source tool for managing containerized applications across a cluster of host machines. […]

Google may have started off as an Internet search company, but it has been increasingly branching off in a multitude of completely different directions in recent times. Its latest move is one that will reportedly take it into the wireless services market. Google has apparently entered into partnership agreements under which it will buy wireless […]

Google’s decision, along with Fidelity Investments, to invest $1 billion in entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) venture should help flesh out its ongoing effort to bring Internet access to poorly connected parts of the world. SpaceX on Jan. 20 described the investment as a financing round that gives Google and Fidelity a […]

Google announced Cloud Dataflow last June as a managed service designed to help companies ingest and analyze huge data sets both in batch processing and in real-time streaming mode. In December, the company released a Cloud Dataflow Software Development Kit into the open-source community to encourage software developers to write applications that integrate easily with […]

When Google and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced a business partnership last October, they described the move as an effort to jointly compete for large projects leveraging PwC’s consulting experience and Google’s Cloud Platform technologies. Last week, the two companies followed through on that announcement with PwC including Google in a team that is bidding for a massive […]

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. […]