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Microsoft Releases Engkoo English-Chinese Dictionary/Translation For Windows Phones

November 17, 2016May 10, 2011 by David K

Microsoft Research just dropped a new app called Engkoo. Here’s how they describe it: Free dictionary and translation based on new technology from Microsoft Research. Currently supporting English-English and English-Chinese (Simplified). Define/translate a word, phrase or sentence. Features include: fresh definitions and sample sentences mined from the web, pronunciation (audio), autocomplete with built-in support for … Read more

Update: Microsoft-Skype Deal Apparently Confirmed For $8.5b–Press Event 8am

April 7, 2016May 10, 2011 by David K

All Things Digital (of The Wall Street Journal) is now reporting the Microsoft and Skype is a done deal and they will officially make an acquisition announcement tomorrow morning at 5am PT (8am EST) for a price of $8.5b after considering their long term debt. Apparently Ballmer has been personally heavily involved in the negotiations. … Read more

WSJ Reports Microsoft Close To A Deal To Buy Skype For $7b

April 7, 2016May 9, 2011 by David K

The Wall Street Journal has a pretty solid record of having inside information on the tech industry and they’re now reporting that Microsoft is close to sealing a deal with Skype for $7b. This deal has plenty of critics already because Microsoft already has Messenger and Lync which are essentially their versions of Skype but … Read more

New Windows Phone 7 features surface for the forthcoming mango update

April 7, 2016May 9, 2011 by Ramon Trotman

Some new features have surfaced on the windows phone dev podcast we can’t wait to get! Bing audio, allows you to search for songs as they are playing, similar to the shazaam app. Bing vision, allows you to search for products by taking a pic of barcodes, covers ect. Bing navigation, pretty much what it … Read more

Tweetcaster for Windows Phone released

April 7, 2016May 9, 2011 by Ramon Trotman

Tweet caster is now live on the marketplace. The app has made it to WP7 with all features intact. I must say, the app is really light and lightning fast. Functionality is on par with most of the twitter apps available right now, it even included Facebook integration. Noticeably missing are push and live tile … Read more

Gold’n Rock Goes Free For Windows Phones

April 7, 2016May 8, 2011 by David K

Gold’n Rock is a remake of the classic gold miner game for Windows Phones. It’s previously been available in a paid version for $1 and it has a solid 4.5 stars with plenty of reviews. If you don’t know, in its simplest, you need to time when a claw goes out to try to remove … Read more

Angry Birds Clone Pandas vs Ninjas available For Free

April 7, 2016May 7, 2011 by David K

Ximad’s Pandas vs Ninjas was previously available as a paid game (at $1) and has now been accompanied by a free version. They acknowledge that it’s an Angry Bird’s clone, except it’s uhm…pandas and ninjas instead of birds and pigs. The paid version currently has 4.5 stars and overall very positive reviews but it lacked … Read more

Great Looking Tower Defense Game Pirates Assault Available For Windows Phones

April 7, 2016May 6, 2011 by David K

A great looking new tower defense game called Tower Defense is now available for Windows Phones, and they’ve released it in a free (ad based) version and a premium (ad free) version for $2. Just look at the screen shot to see how slick it looks. It has some niceties such as online leaderboards but … Read more

Microsoft Releases Bing Maps iOS SDK

July 31, 2017May 5, 2011 by David K

Microsoft’s march to compete is continuing to plow forward. Recently they’ve been making their presence on iOS known. They release OneNote, PhotoSynth and of course, the Bing iPad app that’s great. In their latest move, they’ve released a Bing Maps iOS SDK. What’s it do? This new SDK gives developers a set of Objective C … Read more

Bingle Maps–Bing and Google Maps in Harmony On Windows Phones

April 7, 2016May 5, 2011 by David K

This is an interesting app that just went live (for free). It’s a map app that can pull maps from either Bing or Google and you can swap between the two. And that’s only the beginning: Bingle Maps is a full featured map application. Other than the commonly desired features like Search, Routing and Itineraries, … Read more