Jaikumar Vijayan

Play Protect, a suite of Android security services that Google introduced in May 2017, played a big role in bolstering overall security of the Android ecosystem last year. That’s according to Google, which on March 15 released its fourth annual report reviewing the steps it has been taking to improve the security of its mobile […]

Organizations using Chrome Enterprise, Google’s business friendly version of its cloud operating system for desktops, laptops and mobile computers, now have more options for managing and implementing security policies across their devices.  The company on March 15 announced partnerships with four enterprise mobility management (EMM) vendors,—Cisco Meraki, Citrix, IBM and ManageEngine a division of Zoho […]

Taking a cue from Facebook, Google too has decided to ban all advertisements for crypto-currencies and related financial products on its online properties.  The policy will go into effect in June 2018 and includes ads pertaining to initial coin offerings, crypto-currency exchanges, wallets, and trading advice.  The ban is part of a new financial products […]

Google has introduced what it claims is a simplified pricing model for organizations using its Stackdriver Monitoring and Logging service to manage cloud workloads.  Highlights of the new model include a pay-as-you-go pricing option, volume-based pricing discounts and no-cost availability of Google Cloud Platform performance metrics.  The new pricing structure also brings some services that […]

Google is working on an alternative to its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format requirement for websites that want to ensure their content continues to get proper placement in mobile search results.  Malte Ubl, Google’s lead for the AMP Project on said March 8 that based on the company’s experience with AMP so far, Google is […]

Google is urging website owners to take immediate action to replace digital certificates issued by Symantec that the company has previously identified as being untrustworthy.  Starting with the April 17 release of Google’s Chrome 66 browser, all Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates that Symantec issued prior to June 1, 2016 will be fully […]

Google is not usually shy about touting its accomplishments in the artificial intelligence space, but one win that company does not seem particularly keen on broadcasting is a recent pilot project with the U.S. Department of Defense.  In a widely quoted report this week Gizmodosaid it had learned about Google quietly partnering with the DoD […]

In the world of quantum computing, the number of quantum bits, or qubits, that a processor can handle is one important metric of how powerful it is.  By that measure, Google this week established a landmark of sorts in previewing Bristlecone, a new 72-qubits quantum processor.  The processor surpasses a 50-qubit system that IBM announced […]

Google is using the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas this week to showcase its new Cloud Healthcare API and other recent developments in the health care sector. Among those developments is a new partnership as well as some security and compliance updates.  Health care is increasingly moving towards the […]

company first announced last year, is now generally available to customers of its G-Suite service.  Starting this week, organizations can use the feature to enable better collaboration among members of distributed project teams. Hangouts Chat, according to Google, supports team chat rooms, threaded conversations and sophisticated search functionality that allow organizations to manage and move […]