I’ve been using a new Google Chromebook — specifically the Samsung Series 5 550 — since I bought it for $449 about a month ago. With the new Chromebooks, Google did away with the Caps Lock keyboard button, opting to leave a full-sized Search key instead. Enable offline Google Docs. Take and edit screenshots. MORE >>

The post A Month In With The Nexus 4: Google Strengths Emerge appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. It’s been a month or so since I bailed on the iPhone and went all in on Google’s flagship Nexus 4. Google’s is more messily bottoms up. Once learned, however, they are extremely useful. MORE >>

Updated : Google just announced it is ending its Labs program, in an effort to focus more on its existing products, and a collective gasp has gone up around the Internet. For many of Google’s hard-core or even medium-core users, certain labs features have become essential tools to personalize the apps to their needs. MORE >>

Since having my son, I have not been the best blogger in the world, but that doesn’t meant that I’m not thinking about blogging. probably have a year’s worth of posts in my head, but always time with adorable toddler trumps blogging. The fact that it’s a social world and not just one person’s blog. MORE >>

Google Voice, a VoIP service which offers voice calling from mobile devices and from Gmail’s web interface , has announced that it will continue to offer free calls in the U.S. Google Voice has been free for U.S. It seems that Google Voice is growing in popularity, despite having had several outages in recent months. MORE >>