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Google LLC today made a new service generally available that lets information technology administrators better manage access controls and features within its Chrome browser across organizations. Chrome Browser Cloud Management, launched in beta in 2018, provides a way to centrally secure and maintain …
Analysts blame Intel chip shortage for ongoing PC sales decline
There’s no letup in the declining global demand for personal computers, according to new numbers released Wednesday by market analysts Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. Gartner said global shipments of PCs, which includes desktops, notebooks and workstations, fell by 4.6% in …
Amazon buys warehouse robotics startup Canvas Technology
Amazon.com Inc. has acquired a Boulder, Colorado-based robotics startup called Canvas Technology that builds autonomous vehicles for industrial purposes. More specifically, Canvas makes autonomous, self-driving carts for use in warehouses. The carts are said to employ “spacial artificial intelligence” and advanced imaging …
Pentagon: Amazon, Microsoft now in two-horse race for $10B JEDI cloud deal
The race to land a multibillion-dollar Pentagon cloud services contract is now down to Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. after two other competing bids were rejected by U.S. Defense Department officials, Bloomberg reported today. According to Defense Department spokeswoman Elissa Smith, …
Google partners with Fivetran to bring more data to BigQuery
Google LLC teamed up with a little-known company called Fivetran Inc. today to create a new Data Transfer Service for its BigQuery data analytics platform. BigQuery is actually a data warehouse service that’s used to store and analyze extremely large, read-only datasets. It’s hosted …
With Cloud Code, Google aims to speed up cloud-native app development
Google LLC wants developers to build more of their applications in Kubernetes-based containers hosted on its cloud. To encourage that, today it’s introducing a new set of plugins called Google Cloud Code, which allows apps built with Integrated Development Environments such as …
G Suite gets faster, smarter and more collaborative with a mass of new features
Google LLC’s G Suite productivity and collaboration tools have been recognized as a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite for some time already, but with the software giant clicking again, Google can’t afford to let up in the race to help …
Google steps up its bid to bring AI to the masses
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence tools are already considered to be some of the best in the business, but businesses are always looking for newer and easier ways to apply AI to their applications. With that in mind, Google Cloud today is adding …
Cisco expands hybrid and multicloud collaboration with Google
Cisco Systems Inc. is throwing its weight behind Google Cloud’s hybrid cloud services platform, newly rebranded as Anthos. The networking giant is integrating some of its core hardware platforms and software products with Google Cloud’s Anthos, formerly called Cloud Services Platform. It’s …
Google Cloud Run brings serverless infrastructure to software containers
Hoping to steal a march on its bigger cloud computing rivals, Google LLC is shaking up its stack of serverless software that enables developers to building applications in a more automated way. It’s doing so with a new offering called Cloud Run …