Google Disco updated to 2.0

By George Wong on 05/23/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

Google Disco updated to 2.0 Google’s group messaging app, Disco is something that not many people have heard about in their lives, despite the app being around for awhile. And today, Google has released an updated version of the cross-platform messenger with some useful new features, such as Push notifications and sending messages over data, with real-time chats.

With those features already have available in other apps, Google needs to push the app hard and get people to use it if they’re really interested in making it a success. The lack of any announcements on their official blog makes this one of Google’s “quietest” apps ever. For those of you who live in the states, Google Disco is available for free. Unfortunately, to the rest of the world, Google Disco isn’t available yet. Maybe Google wants to improve the app more before it starts promoting it heavily. How many of you folks have heard of Disco, and how many of you actually even use it?

If you’d like to give it a spin, download the latest version of Google Disco from the App Store or Android Market.

Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

Google: Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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