When Barnes & Noble announced the Nook Tablet this week, it made sure to let the public know it’s more than a colorized e-reader. Apps such as Netflix, Pandora and Hulu will be available on the Nook Tablet to make up B&N not selling movies and music itself. Amazon on the other hand has its own MP3 and video store. The impression is if you get a Kindle Fire, you’ll be forced to go through Amazon if you want the best media content. Well that’s not the case. Just like the Nook Tablet, the Kindle Fire will fully support third-party apps that don’t require tapping in to your Amazon account.

When you stroll over to the Netflix website, you’ll notice that it has undergone a bit of a change. The new Netflix interface was designed to put more attention on Netflix’s Watch Instantly options for movies and television shows. If you want to see the old Netflix interface, you can only see it in the “Browse DVDs” portion of the site.

A report from gdgt states that Amazon is going to release its own tablet. Though no major hardware details have been revealed (either officially or otherwise), gdgt’s Peter Rojas says he’s “99% certain” that tablet is being made by Samsung. If true, this tablet has a wonderful opportunity to gain a fair share of the ever-expanding tablet market. Amazon has the name, the retail expertise and the cash to make its tablet very competitive.

As anyone who owns an iOS device can attest to, one of the most frustrating parts of the experience is having to change media file types to work on the devices. The best way to make sure video is compatible is to buy it from the iTunes store, but you might want to get your more »

Creative has just announced a few new flavors to the portable media player industry: the Zen X-Fi Style, and the Zen Style 100 and 300. All of which carry Creative’s signature style with multiple colors and interesting designs. The Zen X-Fi Style (image above) resembles the original Zen with a 2.4″ display. List of specs: more »

With the majority of the technology community in Austin this week for SXSW, Digg felt it was a good time to release a new version of their social bookmarking site. In, fact they decided to release the alpha version of the new site so you can get a sneak peak at it. If you go more »

Newspapers aren’t faring too well. We all know that. The options lately seem to be close the paper, hope ebook readers and/or the Apple Tablet can save the industry, or establish a pay wall. There are problems with all three, though now we have proof that pay walls don’t always work. The proof comes from more »

We’ve all been getting quite excited about Boxee recently it seems, without the acknowledgment of that which Boxee came from. For those who don’t know, the popular Boxee came out the XBMC project. While Boxee has been busy with tons of updates and announcements as of late, XMBC hasn’t had too many updates until the more »

What if you could make sure your movie purchases would work tomorrow, on any device, and you could lose worries of scratching a disc? That is the idea behind Disney’s Keychest, a new way to future-proof your media purchases and instantly access your media on any device that is supported. Could the DVD finally go more »

Once again Microsoft has come back with the Ultimate Steal for Office Ultimate 2007. The offer will allow current students (of a registered school) that have a valid .edu email address to pick up a copy of Office Ultimate 2007 for just $59.95. For the purpose of this offer, the copy of Office Ultimate 2007 more »