The Easter Bunny will bring Nokia’s high-end Windows Phone to AT&T this spring – the Lumia 900 goes on sale for $99 on Easter Sunday, according to CNET’s Roger Cheng. The phone will be ready for AT&T’s next-generation LTE network, and boasts a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, an 8 megapixel camera, and a 1.4GHz processor. At $99 with a contract, it may tempt a number of American to give the Windows operating system a try.
Meanwhile Android leader HTC Corp. is increasing its commmitment to video. The Taiwanese company is taking a 20% stake in SyncTV as part of a licensing deal with SyncTV owner Intertrust, licensor of distributed computing technologies. Intertrust helps companies exchange data and money securely over open networks, and its SyncTV subsidiary offers cloud-based video distribution on wireless and connected devices to clients like NBC Universal an LimeTV.
As consumers show a growing appetite for video on mobile devices and new technologies facilitate content sharing between smartphones, tablets and traditional TV sets, video software is catching the interest of device makers and networking companies. Earlier this month Cisco (CSCO) agreed to pay $5 billion for video software maker NDS Group, saying it wants to be ready to help carriers offer customers traditional TV shows, online content, social media and video apps on mobile devices as well as on television sets.
