Facebook Messenger for Firefox Is Official Now

Mozilla is making it official, it's now announcing that the Facebook Messenger experiment is live for Firefox Beta users. The app had been available over the weekend and Firefox Beta and Aurora users could have started using it already, but Mozilla only now announced it. "For the last few months we’ve been building the Social API – a way to allow you to plug your favorite social sites into Firefox – and we are ready to start our first Social API test with Facebook Messenger for Firefox," Mozilla wrote in its announcement. "We’re really excited about it and need your help testing the feature to make it better as we get ready to release to all Firefox users," it said. The feature has been available, if you knew where to...

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Android 4.2 Leaked ROM Unveils with Multiple User Accounts

One of the features that Google is expected to include in the upcoming Android 4.2 operating system release is support for multiple accounts on the same device, the latest reports on the matter suggest. There is no official confirmation on whether the feature will indeed be included in the new platform release or not, but the guys over at Android Police did find mentions of it in a recently leaked Android 4.2 ROM. Clues that such a feature was coming to Android have emerged online a while ago, and some more info on the matter is now available. Info extracted from the aforementioned leaked ROM shows that Google is getting ready to set new permissions for applications, so that they can be used by more than a single user...

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ASUS PadFone 2 Quadrant Benchmark, Scores 7500

ASUS’ new PadFone 2 smartphone appears to be a beast right from the start, with its quad-core processor capable of delivering impressively high performance levels. The device has already been benchmarked, and the score it delivered places it high above rival devices. In Quadrant, for example, it sits nicely at the top with a 7500 score. The guys over at mobilegeeks were those to run this test on the device, both with the PadFone slate on and off, and it registered high performance levels in both cases. More can be found in the video above. For those out of the loop, we should note that the smartphone was announced with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 chip clocked at 1.5 GHz and accompanied by 2GB of RAM. The handset sports a 4.7-inch touchscreen display, while...

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Samsung Baffin, Affordable Quad-Core Smartphone for South Korea

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is reportedly gearing up for the release of a new quad-core smartphone on the local market, one that has been spotted with the codename of Baffin and model number SHV-E270. Rumor has it that the new device will hit the market with an Exynos 4412 processor packed inside, a quad-core chip clocked at 1.4GHz and sporting an ARM Mali-400 MP GPU. Moreover, the new device is said to arrive with a WVGA (480 x 800) screen and with buttons placed beneath it. LTE connectivity will be included in the device, along with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. The smartphone should hit the market at SK Telecom (SHV-E270S), KT (SHV-E270K) and LG U+ (SHV-E270L) in the country (with LTE / W-CDMA / GSM...

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Run Windows 8 OS on Any PC with Western Digital My Passport Enterprise

As all special software features, Windows To Go cannot gain fame in absence of hardware that supports it but, fortunately, it is an easy enough capability to implement. Microsoft saw to it and Western Digital spared no time in taking advantage of that. IT sales nowadays run on how assured consumers are that they are buying the right thing. That means that having a label clearly stating “Windows To Go certified” goes a long way, even though, theoretically, any external storage device, be it HDD, SSD or flash drive, should work that way. Western Digital has just announced that its My Passport Enterprise portable hard disk drive has been certified for Windows To Go. My Passport Enterprise is described as a 500 GB HDD with...

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