Jaikumar Vijayan

Google’s parent company Alphabet has launched Chronicle, a new independent business unit focused on delivering high-end security analytics services to enterprises.  Chronicle will use Google’s considerable computing and storage infrastructure and the company’s machine learning technologies to help organizations better investigate and analyze data from their security systems.  VirusTotal, a free malware scanning service that […]

Google has broadened its efforts to sell audiobooks online with the launch of Audiobooks on Google Play Jan. 23.  Starting this week, users in 45 countries will be able to buy audiobooks in nine languages from Google’s Play mobile app store. Google’s Audiobooks are available for Web users and as well as for users of […]

Google has developed a prototype 3D model viewer as part of its ongoing effort to bring more augmented reality capabilities to smartphones and tablets. Google’s Article prototype model viewer works on all browsers and allows users to view and interact with digital content superimposed on, or blended with, real-world images. For example, the technology will […]

Customers of Google’s project Fi high-speed wireless service now have the equivalent of an unlimited data plan.  Google this week introduced a new Project Fi feature called Bill Protection that caps data usage charges at certain levels regardless of how much data is actually used.  For example, for a single user, Google will continue to […]

Starting in July, Google will take into account the speed at which pages load on mobile devices when ranking websites in mobile search results. Generally, websites with fast loading pages will get a higher ranking in search results than those of the same quality content but with slower page speeds. Google will apply the speed-ranking […]

Google has introduced a new security management tool for customers of its G Suite ensemble of cloud-based office productivity and collaboration apps.  The new Security Center for G Suite gives administrators a centralized view of key security metrics pertaining to their data and a way to act upon that information in a more timely fashion, […]

Google will commission three new undersea cables in 2019 in a substantial expansion of its global infrastructure.  One of the cables will be entirely Google owned and will connect Los Angeles to Chile. The cable, which Google has dubbed Curie, will be the first intercontinental cable built entirely by a non-telecom company, according to Google. […]

Google this week claimed that the mitigations the company has developed to address the widespread threat posed by the Spectre and Meltdown microprocessor vulnerabilities disclosed Jan. 3 have had little impact on the performance of its cloud services.  One of the fixes in fact has been so effective, the company has moved the code for […]

Google has announced a new framework designed to help developers conduct unit tests on Docker container images.  The Container Structure Test gives enterprises a way to verify the structure and contents of individual containers to ensure that everything is as it should be before shipping to production, the company said in the company’s Open Source […]

James Damore, the former Google engineer who was fired for writing a controversial internal memo questioning the company’s diversity policies has sued the company for allegedly discriminating against conservative white males.  In a complaint filed Jan., 8 in the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara, Damore accused the technology giant of “systematically” singling out, punishing […]

Google will bring together the company’s different online payment apps into a unified   service branded Google Pay.  Google Pay will replace the currently separate Android Pay and Google Wallet services. It will allow users to use payment information stored in their Google account to pay for purchases in stores, in Play, via Chrome and across […]

In a routine that has played out numerous times over the past year, Google recently had to remove nearly two dozen applications from its Play mobile app store after a security vendor discovered them to be infected with ad-serving malware. Check Point Software Technologies, which discovered the malware, said the malicious apps were downloaded between […]