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Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone

Abhishek Baxi — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:05:04 +0000

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 Windows Phone application developed by Den Delimarsky allows viewing Visual [...]

Wordament: The Popular Windows Phone Game Hearts Xbox LIVE

Abhishek Baxi — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:40:40 +0000

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. Apart from the addition of Xbox LIVE achievements, [...]

Finally, Cricket Fans on Windows Phone Can Say Yahoo!

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:09:09 +0000

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. Before I explored the features and the experience, I double checked that this was was Yahoo!’s first app for Windows Phone apart from [...]

Zomato Arrives on Windows Phone; Faces No Competition in Marketplace in India Yet

Abhishek Baxi — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:36:33 +0000

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. The Windows Phone app is as comprehensive as the service offers otherwise. [...]

Moneycontrol on Windows Phone Easily one of the Best Finance Apps

Abhishek Baxi — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:48:32 +0000

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. The moneycontrol app is one stop shop for news and [...]

Flipkart for Windows Phone: Slick, but Slim

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:33:31 +0000

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. On the face of it, the application looks nice and [...]

CNN-IBN Comes to Windows Phone; First App from a Mainstream Media House in India

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:36:47 +0000

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. The app, available for free, is called IBNLive, in consistency with their news portal IBNLive.com. [...]

Microsoft Research Shooting with Windows Phone Apps using Facial Recognition

Abhishek Baxi — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:09:48 +0000

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! Face Mask gives you a fun and [...]

Nokia Lumia ‘Amazing Everyday’ Commercial Comes to India

Abhishek Baxi — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:06:16 +0000

Nokia’s fun Amazing Everyday commercial for Nokia Lumia 800 has has now arrived for India with an auto-rickshaw ride and sadhus playing soccer. I’ve always been fan of Nokia commercials with subtle background score and inspirations drawn from life’s everyday moments. Hidden away in the everyday are billions of little adventures. The new Nokia Lumia [...]

Shake to Swap! Windows Phone App to Swap your Face with Friends

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:01 +0000

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. Face Swap provides an easy and quick way to swap people’s face using a photo taken with others. [...]