Tag: Google

October 6, 2016

If Google’s recent hardware launch event got you excited about its new Assistant that it showed off on Android, we have some bad news: It’ll be a while before you can try it – unless you buy a Pixel. A […]

September 30, 2016

Google rebranded and enhanced its productivity suite Thursday with new intelligent capabilities that help it better compete with Microsoft Office 365. G Suite is the new name for the group of applications that include Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and […]

September 27, 2016

In line with the announcement of its new Station initiative that aims to bring public Wi-Fi to areas with poor data connectivity, today Google also announced plans to make browsing the Web in Chrome for Android a lot faster and […]

September 22, 2016

Tucked within Google’s unremarkable Allo messaging app is a real treasure: Google Assistant, which injects Google Now with an eager-to-please personality that finally provides the give-and-take other digital assistants lack. We’ve always talked about Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google […]

September 20, 2016

Google took a shot at Facebook’s chatbot-building services on Monday with its acquisition of API.ai, a company that helps developers build and improve conversational interfaces for their services. API.ai has more than 60,000 developers using its platform to create conversational […]

September 19, 2016

At its I/O conference in May, Google unveiled a ‘smart messaging app’ called Allo, which only requires your phone number to identify you. It looks like we won’t have to wait much longer to try it. According to expert tipster […]

September 14, 2016

Google has been offering public cloud services for several years now, but the company has continued to lag behind Amazon and Microsoft in customer growth. Under the leadership of VMware co-founder Diane Greene, who serves as the executive vice president […]

September 5, 2016

Google’s Android security team patched a critical vulnerability in the company’s Nexus 5X devices which would have let attackers bypass the lockscreen. An attacker who successfully triggered the vulnerability would be able to obtain data stored on the device via […]

August 31, 2016

Identity management vendor Okta and Google have announced a partnership aimed at getting enterprises to secure their users’ identities in the cloud. As part of the deal, Google will use Okta as its preferred identity provider for Google Apps enterprise […]

August 29, 2016

Don’t you just love it when companies kill off useful services and platforms? Yeah, neither do we. Earlier this month, Google announced its plans to phase out Chrome apps for every OS except Chrome OS, starting in the second half […]

August 24, 2016

A group of researchers at Google appear to have taken a leaf out of HBO comedy Silicon Valley’s book for its latest project. The team has developed a way to use neural networks that mimic the workings of the human […]

July 13, 2016

“Bots” have been around for decades. Recently, however, it’s become the norm for large technology companies to build, support and develop bots for a wide variety of uses. Because bots can be so many different things, it’s often difficult to […]

July 8, 2016

The encryption methods used to secure today’s internet communications won’t be impenetrable forever. More powerful “quantum computers” on the horizon could very well crack them. That’s why Google is testing out new cryptography that computers in the future might not […]