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.

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.

Although casual gaming on smartphones is very popular, most smartphone-based games are single-player games or turn-based, in which two or more players queue up on a single phone to play games. Switchboard is a cloud service that enables smartphones to link to each other for multiplayer gaming.

Mind Dots Software Systems recently conducted a survey on Mobile App Usage Pattern in India. Mind Dots is a two year old startup technology company focused on Web and mobile application development.