Have you tried out Visual Studio Achievements – the fun gamification of your every day programming? Head over to Channel9, sign up for an account and download the plugin. And if you are raking your coding achievements already, here’s an app for Windows Phone!
The very popular and addictive Windows Phone game – Wordament – has just been reborn as an Xbox LIVE title with refreshed look and few extra features. The game, developed by veteran Microsoft employees – John Thornton and Jason Cahill – is still available for free though.
As cricket fans using Windows Phone ardently wait for an official ESPNcricinfo app, Yahoo! stumped the domain by releasing Yahoo! Cricket, apparently the first official app from a content publisher for cricket.
The leading food and restaurant discovery service, Zomato, has arrived on Windows Phone. Zomato has had an exhaustive mobile presence as yet (critical for a service in this genre) with iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android apps as well as a fine mobile web edition.
Few would argue that moneycontrol.com is amongst the best, if not the best, financial and business portals in India. The umbrella group, Network18, also runs two leading financial news channels – CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. All that goodness has now arrived on Windows Phone.
Flipkart, the leading online store from India has released a Windows Phone app last week amongst the burst of local applications from India. The app offers shopping for a wide variety of products across several categories including movies, music, games, mobiles, cameras, computers, and electronics.
Finally! After several teasers of apps from Indian content publishers and services (including The Times of India), Network 18 (the umbrella owner of the popular English news channel, CNN-IBN) has released the first official Windows Phone news app in India.
Looks like Microsoft Research is the one playing Santa this holiday season, at least for the Windows Phone users. After releasing Face Swap a few days back and including a teaser of another facial-recognition app in Face Swap, they’ve delivered another one in quick time – Face Mask!
This would be filed under the category of useless apps that provide endless fun. Microsoft Research has released a new Windows Phone app – Face Swap – that allows you to swap your face with other people.
At the Windows Phone India launch at New Delhi last week, Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, gave a short glimpse of Microsoft India’s efforts to evangelize Windows Phone to content publishers and internet businesses.
While Windows Phone offers integrated Bing Maps experience, there are several apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace that enhance mapping and navigation using either Bing or Google maps. Here’s my selection of the three best available mapping and navigation apps.
Glassboard is a free app for sharing privately with different groups of people you know. You create a board – Glassboard term for a group – and invite people to it. These are the only people who will be able to see what’s posted to that board. The board members can share messages, comments, photos, [...]