This Google office has a real fireman’s pole, slide, cattle walkway, and more (gallery)

May 8, 2013 12:14 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Nap rooms are so 2000s. Massage rooms are a dime a dozen. And the in-office gym has been around since at least the 90s. So if you want to up the ante, attract the best talent, and have the most brag-worthy office in the world, you need more.

Lenovo enters the Chromebook fray with a tough ThinkPad model for schools

January 17, 2013 6:29 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Not content to let Asus and Samsung have all the fun, Lenovo this morning announced a Chromebook laptop of its own for education buyers.

Google prepping touch-compatible Nexus Chromebooks — and massively ramping production

November 26, 2012 8:39 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Google's Android mobile OS is touch from the bottom up. So wouldn't you expect Google's ChromeOS to be touchable as well?

At $249, Google finally gets Chromebook pricing right

October 18, 2012 12:25 PM Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton

Google is finally learning from the mistakes of its previous Chromebooks and pricing its latest model far more competitively.

Lease a Chromebook from Google for $30/month

September 5, 2012 2:36 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

No, it's not the 90s and no, Larry Ellison is not hawking network computers. Instead, it's 2012, and Google is. Sorta.

Google debuts updated Chrome OS hardware, but it still looks weak

May 29, 2012 1:33 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Google has introduced an updated version of its Chrome operating system and two new hardware options from Samsung that run the web-based OS — but it all still looks relatively underwhelming.

The search giant announced Chromebook laptops running the Chrome …

Chrome OS gets a facelift, proves Google can’t always get its way

April 10, 2012 6:31 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Google’s Chrome OS has always been about the web — indeed, the first version of the operating system was literally just a Chrome web browser that filled the screen. But with the latest developer channel update, the OS has received …

Google’s top 10 news items from 2011

December 21, 2011 1:24 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

In our many trips to the Google campus during 2011, we heard and saw a lot of what the company got up to in 2011.

As one of the foremost Google+ skeptics, I personally got called in not once but …