The plug-ins register themselves with and utilize the services of the existing application and allow developers to add functionality, upgrade features, and deploy bug fixes.
The ability to embed a Hangout on a webpage is not new functionality – Google upgraded its Hangouts on Air offering this May to allow anyone to broadcast their live Hangout to YouTube or on their own website, for example.
After reading through the critical reviews across the top money-making utilities, you'll find customers complaining that the apps are too aggressive in pushing subscriptions (e.g. via constant prompts), offer little functionality without upgrading, provide no transparency around how free trials work and make it difficult to stop subscription payments, among other things.
We haven't had a chance to test it yet (it's only beginning to roll out to users), but I would assume that the search functionality has been upgraded as well, alongside with the recent upgrade to Facebook's regular search functionality.
To offer the new functionality Samsung has upgraded the equipment's computer processor.
In other words, frequency band, air-interface protocol, and functionality can be upgraded with software download and update instead of a complete hardware replacement.
Hulu's Live TV service, meanwhile, makes the DVR option a part of its base package, but offers paying users upgraded functionality.
We finally report on the development of a second version of this circuit to readout a 3 × 8 detectors array with improved noise performances and upgraded functionalities.
Facebook recently rolled out the upgraded search functionality on its site, but on the iPhone searching is limited to profiles and pages.
The second article claims that Face.com is powering Facebook Photos' facial recognition functionality, which was clearly upgraded in the past few months, albeit, with no indication there was a third party involved.
