Siri vs Google Assistant: The Battle of the Smartphone Assistants

Virtual assistants are set to become a much bigger part of our every day process in 2017 and beyond. Already, Amazon's Echo and Google Home are changing the way we…

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Google launches cloud-based key management with new service

Google has announced the launch of Cloud Key Management Service (KMS), which enables admins to manage their encryption keys in Google Cloud Platform without maintaining an on-premise management system. The…

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Google to SEOs: Time to AMP Up

Google just gave webmasters an unmistakably direct reason to upgrade their pages to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format as soon as possible in a posting in its Webmaster Central Blog advising them…

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Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads

  Google is about to deal a small blow to some of the most annoying ads on mobile: pop-ups and interstitials. It’s not a stretch to argue that readers don’t…

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More enterprises using Microsoft and Google apps in tandem, research reveals

Office 365 continues to be the most popular cloud app used by enterprises ahead of Salesforce and Box, while Slack has jumped in workplace popularity, according to the latest figures…

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Google cloud team launches damage control mission following outage

Google will offer all customers who were affected by the Google Compute Engine outage with service credits, in what would appear to be a damage control exercise as the company…

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Google announces data centre expansion plans: 12 more regions by 2017

Google has announced a major expansion of its cloud data centres, with two new regions to start running this year and another 10 to be available by the end of…

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The Week In Storage: NVMe Lightning Strikes, FB Drives Wedge Into Networking, Google Joins OCP Posse

The week in storage was yet another busy affair that began with news of Samsung's spacious 15.63 TB SSD, but there is no word on the million-dollar price tag. However,…

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Google launches Dataproc after successful beta trials

Google has announced that its big data analysis tool Dataproc is now on general release. The utility, which was one of the factors that persuaded Spotify to choose Google’s Cloud…

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Spotify shifts all music from data centres to Google Cloud

Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it is to switch formats for storing tunes for customers and is copying all the music from its data centres onto the Google’s…

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