Jaikumar Vijayan

Organizations using Google Drive to store and share files in the cloud now have an easier way to interact with Microsoft Office files, PDFs and image files. Google has introduced a new feature in Drive that lets users make comments directly on Microsoft Office files, and other files without requiring Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader […]

As it has done many times over the past year with unwanted Android applications on its Play store, Google has removed 89 browser extensions from its official Chrome web store after a security vendor identified them as being malicious.  Google has also disabled the rogue extensions from running on the devices of over 420,000 Chrome […]

Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP) group has rolled out a new feature that the company says gives organizations a better way to enforce the principle of least privilege on users accessing enterprise data and services in the cloud.  Google has been beta testing the new custom roles feature for Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]

bad apps from its Play mobile app store last year.  The number represented a 70 percent increase over the number of apps that Google removed from the store in 2016.  Not only did Google remove more apps that violated Google Play policies, it also was able to identify them and boot them out sooner, Google […]

Google’s Orbitera ecommerce unit has teamed up with MobileIron in a partnership designed to give enterprises a more secure way to buy and deploy Software-as-a-Service apps in the cloud.  Under the effort the two companies are collaborating on a new cloud service that will combine Orbitera’s commerce platform with MobileIron’s cloud security and mobile app […]

Researchers at Trend Micro this week uncovered a malware campaign that used Google’s DoubleClick ad network to distribute crypto-currency miners on systems belonging to Internet users in France, Spain, Italy, Japan and other countries.  Trend Micro noticed the campaign on Jan. 24 and informed Google about the problem. Traffic related to the campaign has fallen […]

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 […]