Ben Rudolph

You love Windows Phone. The critics love Windows Phone. We love Windows Phone.

The question now is: How can we convince everybody else?

A few months ago we created the Suggestion Box for your feature suggestions for future versions of Windows Phone. Your passion and creativity has floored us. So now we’ve made a new place for your advertising and promotion suggestions. In other words, How would you get the word out about Windows Phone?

Here’s an early Valentine for game lovers. Today we’re unveiling the release schedule and pricing for the latest Must Have Games lineup, which we originally announced a few weeks ago at CES in Las Vegas.

There will be a new game to grab each week starting with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit ($4.99) on February 1. Here’s the rest of the lineup:

BulletAsylum: February 8 ($2.99)

Windows Phone had a fantastic week last week at CES. 2 new 4G LTE-enabled Windows Phones were announced for AT&T: the HTC Titan II and Nokia Lumia 900.

It’s big. It’s fast. It’s got a killer camera. The first major Windows Phone announcement to emerge from the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today was positively drool-worthy: The HTC Titan II, a new 4G LTE-equipped phone, is coming to AT&T.

If you’ve been looking for a nice quick and dirty list of all the new things you can do with Bing in Windows Phone 7.5 (aka Mango), you’ll want to check the Bing blog today, which just published a nice overview of Bing Vision, Music Search, Local Scout, App Connect, and more. (Note that not all of these features are available in all markets.) If you want to dive deeper, check out the accompanying video tour of the features co-hosted by Ben Rudolph. Check it out

Lots of new stuff this week to chat about in the podcast, including the Xbox LIVE companion app for Windows Phone and the announcement of the Jil Sander Windows Phone from LG.

This week at CES, AMD is launching their AMD Fusion family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). What’s an APU? An APU is the combination of the CPU and GPU into a single die. What AMD has done with their Fusion family of APU processors is to combine multi-core CPU (x86) technology with discrete-level graphics.

Ben Rudolph and I recently visited four fantastic mom bloggers known as the Blogging Angels in New York for a podcast to talk about Windows.

If you’re looking at tools to help you blog easier, smarter, faster, then check out the blog by Amy Windsor of The Bitchin’ Wives Club who is starting a series aimed at reviewing free tools available for blogging.

According to IDC, the global PC market grew 22.4% in the 2nd quarter of 2010 which is in line with their forecast of forecasted growth of 22.9%. I suggest giving the IDC press release a read if you’re interested in the seeing the break out of top (6) PC vendors and worldwide PC shipments. It’s great to see continued growth in the PC market.