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!

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.

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.

Nokia launched Lumia Windows Phones in India last month at a press event in New Delhi. While, Nokia, and Microsoft, talked about the device and Nokia’s marketing and sales roadmap, Nokia strangely did not announce the prices. [My live blog coverage] [Photos]

The Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 phones have launched and Nokia is working on an unprecedented retail support and an aggressive consumer marketing campaign along with the rollout. Apart from the consumer engagement, Nokia is also focusing on the developer engagement.

Windows Phone officially launched in India last month, and was followed by announcements from HTC and Nokia to launch Windows Phone 7.5 devices in India. I interviewed Vikas Arora on the sidelines of the Windows Phone launch event at New Delhi.

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Microsoft India has launched a campaign around the idea of ‘important people’ in your life and involves interesting prizes like house parties and movie tickets to international vacation for you with your friends. Windows Phone was officially launched in India last month. <img style="background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; [...]

This icon pack from Templarian would easily take care of all your icon needs for Windows Phone development and elsewhere! The pack contains 48×48 icons and the source files so with Expression Design they can be resized and exported for other uses.

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.