Microsoft pleased to be available on Android

Microsoft has announced its first application for the Google Android platform, and has told TechRadar it’s glad to be there. The Tag application, which lets users scan barcodes and then visit online retailers to purchase the goods, has finally been added to Android Market. While it seems similar to Google’s own barcode scanner app, Tag also turns the barcodes into coupons to get money off at certain outlets.

Microsoft has spoken to us about finally being on the Google Android platform, although it wouldn’t reveal any details over whether it will be adding other apps to the Market: “With so many mobile options available to consumers it is critical that Microsoft Tag is available across all of the major mobile platforms,” a spokesperson told us.

‘Incredible’

“The feedback on this product since we launched last year has been incredible and we want to make sure that everyone can access it. “We continue to make progress with Windows Mobile, J2ME, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian S60 phones and now Google Android. Users can download the Tag Reader from the Market on their Android phone.  “We’re very happy to welcome the new users to the Microsoft Tag community.” It’s hardly a ringing endorsement of the Android platform, but it’s good to see Microsoft sees the value in not cutting off its nose to spite its face despite having a competitor platform in the shape of Windows Mobile.

Beastly (2010) trailers, interviews, photos

Plot:

Kyle Kingson has it all – looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity – and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating “aggressively unattractive” classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school’s extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is – a task he considers impossible. Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle’s callous father banishes him to Brooklyn with a sympathetic housekeeper and blind tutor. As Kyle ponders how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of killing a threatening dealer. Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for his daughter, Lindy if she will consent to live in Kyle’s Brooklyn home. Thus begins Kyle’s journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic ¿Beauty and the Beast¿ story…

Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: A retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” set in modern-day New York City.
Genres: Romance, Adaptation and Teen
Release Date: July 30th, 2010 (wide)
Distributors:CBS Films
Production Co.:CBS Films, Storefront Pictures
Filming Locations:Montreal, Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Produced in: United States

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