Microsoft Academic Search is a project of Microsoft Research that allows you to explore over 27 million publications on multiple academic domains, authors, and more. The team has now brought this very useful service to Windows Phone as well.
Eric Ligman, Director of Partner Experience at Microsoft has released a Microsoft Partner Information app designed to help bring together many of the great sources of Microsoft partner information pulling them into a single visual interface for easy consumption and increased awareness.
I had a good chance to meet Aaron Skonnard, Fritz Onion, and Matt Milner from Pluralsight at Microsoft TechEd India 2011. During some great conversations (and dinner), I convinced Matt to demo their upcoming Windows Phone 7 app.