Monday, 26 September 2011

Days after updating its Google+ social media application for Android, Google introduced a similarly expanded version for Apple's rival iOS platform, adding support for the Hangouts video conferencing service.

Google+ updated its app for iOS to include Messenger and an improved Hangouts.

 The update also touts the renamed Messenger group messaging service (formerly Huddle), which now enables users to attach photos to chat threads. Additional enhancements include +1 recommendations within comments, enhanced +mention support, Profile map views depicting places where users have lived and a host of reliability boosts.

Google+ launched in late June. The platform promises to rival Facebook by giving users the flexibility to selectively share materials with friends and family sorted into "circles." Google+ exited beta last week, adding roughly 10 million new users within the first two days of public availability according to a post by Ancestry.com co-founder Paul Allen. Google+ now tops 43.4 million users, Allen estimates.