It's getting on for six months now since Apple launched their Siri voice assistant as the flagship app of the iPhone 4S. Since then a large number of Siri-like apps have appeared on Android. Windows Phone 7 users needn't feel left out though - Ask Ziggy is the voice-based Windows version of Apple's Siri assistant app - Ziggy can answer questions or search the web and allows users to call, text or email a contact, as well as updating your status on Facebook, Twitter, or Windows Live. WP7 fans will be delighted to know that Ask Ziggy is completely free and doesn't contain any bothersome ads, either. Available from the Windows Phone Marketplace. [...]

A number of games originally from Xbox are already transitioning to the Windows Phone 7. One of them is Twin Blades. Armored Valley was also released for WP7. Now, as addition to the list of games, critically acclaimed Gnomic Studios will now transform Square off as a WP7 game. Square Off started out in the Microsoft Dream. Build. Play contest in 2009. it debuted as a full on Xbox Game for the Indie Games later in 2009. soon the game will move to the WP7 domain but it still has high hopes that it will get approval for Xbox Live. The concept Square off is one of those invasion stories where a bunch of aliens were set to invade planet Earth. Certain scientists take some of his Brain [...]

Shapes is an education oriented game for small children. The Windows Phone 7 game helps children learn various types of shapes. Have a look at its features:

- Read out loud
- Enable/disable hints
- Choose the question types
- Choose number of questions
- Random set of questions every time
- Random set of colors and shapes every time
- Guaranteed fun
- Guaranteed learning

You can get the game here.

Microsoft spokeman has responded for the first time to the release to the ChevronWP7 unlock tool and have made it clear that the unlocked devices can get banned from Marketplace and Xbox Live. Scary - Very. Read the reply after the breakWe anticipated that people would attempt to unlock the phones and explore the underlying operating system. We encourage people to use their Windows Phone as supplied by the manufacturer to ensure the best possible user experience. Attempting to unlock a device could void the warranty, disable phone functionality, interrupt access to Windows Phone 7 services or render the phone permanently unusable. Also see-   Unlock WP7 [...]

Nigel has posted a video that shows a comparison of video capture of variety of devices that include Apple iPod Touch, HTC Trophy, Flip HD and many others. Interestingly, more details were captured by HTC Trophy's camera when compared to iPod Touch, but latter had less compression artifacts. [...]