You're telling your friend about a new song by an artist you both know, which was put up on YouTube on Friday. He doesn't know about it. You're explaining it, and you say:
He just released it over the weekend.
You want to buy a new phone and you're explaining why to your wife. You say:
The new iPhone just came out, and I've GOT to have it.
casual, exaggeration, got, product You're chatting online with a friend of yours. Both of you are interested in technology and Internet-related news. You read some news this morning about an update to Google's "Google Docs" service. You want to talk about this news with your friend. You write:
Did you hear about Google introducing a new version of Docs?
Use this phrase to start a discussion about something that happened in the news or within your social circle. Here's an example of the second type:
Did you hear about Kylie getting engaged? I can't believe it!
You can use "Did you hear about ___" even if you strongly suspect that the listener has heard the news. But not if you know they've heard it.
When the news is someone's action, you use "someone doing something":
Did you hear about them getting arrested?
But you can also replace this part of the phrase with a noun:
Did you hear about the Nuclear Security Summit?
When a company "introduces" a new product, it tells the general public that the product will be available. You can use the phrase "introduced ___" if the product was made available to use, or also if the company just announced that they were going to release the product.
When you make some changes to something, you have created a new "version" of it. For example, if you draw 5 pictures of the same person at around the same time, each picture that you drew was a "version" of that drawing.
In the case of software, companies add new features and fix problems with their software. They release these changes to their customers as a new "version". The new version usually has a new name or a number (like "Microsoft Word 2007", "Adobe Photoshop CS4", etc.).
