Windows Phone 8 confirmed release with many new features

After months of speculation Microsoft has just taken the wraps of its next mobile operating system Windows Phone 8, and the new software promises to bring with it many new features when it is eventually released.
The upcoming operating system has now been made official by the company and as Cnet arereporting the platform will finally support multi-core hardware theoretically up to 64-core processors. While that is not likely anytime soon, we should start seeing quad core smartphones on the platform in the not too distant future.

MightyText for Android like iMessage launched

A couple of former Google guys wanted to create a tool that enables users to view and respond to text messages sent to an Androiddevice regardless of what device there are using, and the product formally named Texty has been in beta testing for some time, and now has officially launched as MightyText for Android.

According to the guys over at Slash Gear by way of Tech Crunch, the MightyText Androidapplication has been available as a Chrome extension that has garnered some 250,000 users who send in excess of 2 million messages daily, and basically the application allows anyAndroid user to send and receive SMS texts from virtually any device just as they would with their Android smartphone.