3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (405+ words) With Google’s September 15 media showcase in NYC less than a week away, the final regulatory hurdles for the first wave of Googlebook hardware are rapidly clearing. Over the past month, we’ve tracked Lenovo’s flagship clamshell (codenamed ‘Ruby’) through leaked high-resolution…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (503+ words) Following Google’s recent push of Chrome 152 across desktop platforms, the primary system update for Chromebooks has officially arrived as well. According to an update on the Chrome Releases blog, Google has begun pushing ChromeOS 152 (specifically version 16765.41.0, running browser version 152.0.7977.113) to…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (484+ words) With Google’s New York media showcase just around the corner, we’ve covered tons of the over-arching Googlebook equation: the flagship hardware fleet, benchmark leaks, native Android execution, and independent Chrome browser updates. Yet, as we prepare to see retail laptops…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (316+ words) With just under two weeks until Google takes the stage in New York City to unveil Googlebook, the software ecosystem around the new platform continues to show up in plain sight. Over the last few months, we’ve tracked early sightings…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (444+ words) With Google’s private media event in New York City less than two weeks away, the hardware partners slated to show off devices are starting to drop hints in plain sight. We’ve already tracked leaks pointing to launch laptops from Lenovo,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (481+ words) In case you missed it, I recently wrote about a leaked Lenovo render that hinted that Adobe Premiere is coming to the upcoming Googlebooks. But as I was digging deeper into the research, I actually stumbled across a Reddit thread…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (393+ words) We are officially two weeks away from Google’s dedicated media preview event in New York City on September 15, and the excitement around here is at an all-time high. For months, I have been digging through Chromium Gerrit commits, checking hardware…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (715+ words) With the official launch of Googlebook just around the corner, we’ve spent a lot of time analyzing the hardware fleet, benchmark leaks, and the handful of software additions we expect to see right at launch. But there is another crucial…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (448+ words) In just a couple of weeks, we’ll be on the ground in New York City for Google’s official Googlebook preview event. We know we’re going to see an unprecedented day-one fleet of six to eight brand-new flagship devices from HP,…...