Jaikumar Vijayan

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 […]

Organizations that are using Google’s cloud infrastructure to run large compute-intensive workloads now have a relatively cheaper option for this service. The company this week announced a new preemptible GPU option that allows customers to use virtual machines with Graphics Processing Units capable of multi-teraflop performance at prices that are least 50 percent lower than […]

Google has added a new feature to its Data Studio visualization tool that now lets organizations more easily fetch data from a wide range of sources and use it to build customized dashboards and reports. The feature, dubbed Community Connectors, is designed to give developers a way to connect Data Studio with any Internet-linked source […]