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Update (11/07/11): You can find a comparison between the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet on CNET's Android Atlas. The following piece compares the Kindle Fire to Barnes & Noble's older touch screen reader, the Nook Color.

In the aftermath of Amazon's Kindle Fire announcement, the world of budget-priced Android e-reader tablets just got a whole lot more interesting. If you're curious to see how the Kindle Fire stacks up against its closest competitor (the Barnes & Noble Nook Color), here's a handy spec-by-spec breakdown.

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Right on top of word that Amazon will be unveiling a new Kindle or a new Android tablet on September 28, The Digital Reader blog says it got its hands on a PowerPoint slide that indicates that Barnes & Noble will be releasing two new tablets this year.

Rumors have been percolating for a while that the Nook Color would be upgraded around the one-year anniversary of its release (October 26, 2010). But this latest rumor has Barnes & Noble releasing that $249 product, dubbed the Encore, as well as a second $349 model, the Acclaim.

However, Encore was the … Read more

"Thirty minutes after we launched our product, I knew something was wrong," Color CEO and founder Bill Nguyen said in our first meeting since the public disaster that was his company's launch in March of this year.

Color, the well-funded, over-hyped startup by the LaLa founder, had launched a social photo product designed to connect people based on the photos they took when near each other. But, Nguyen realized almost immediately after he hit the "launch" button that it was doomed to fail. Color had its own social network, but what he wanted to build … Read more

Adobe Systems will beef up its digital video software through the acquisition of technology and employees from Iridas, the company announced Thursday.

The company's video software--Premiere Pro and After Effects--are geared for higher-end users, and the company is investing heavily in them at the same time that videography is democratizing. The arrival of video SLRs, most notably Canon's 5D Mark II, has brought relatively affordable gear into the hands of a much larger audience.

The Iridas Speedgrade software offers the ability to refine video in a number of ways, notably what's called color grading, which can shift … Read more

Owners of Barnes & Noble's Nook Color have even more reading material to choose from with more than 200 interactive magazines now available through the Nook Newstand.

Starting today, users of the 7-inch color e-book reader will be able to access special editions of Time, Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated, and Parents & Fitness, all designed specifically for the Nook Color. Two more publications--Entertainment Weekly and Cooking Light--promise to hit the newsstand before the end of the year.

Beyond offering the regular content found in the magazines, the Nook editions provide bonus features, such as video and audio podcasts, animations, … Read more

Unlike older cathode ray tube (CRT) displays that scan an electron beam over a phosphor screen to create light, LCD displays are composed of a fixed grid of tricolor pixels that change transparency based on a range of voltage levels provided by the monitor's controller. Without a voltage the pixel is opaque and blocks the screen's backlight from transferring through it, and when a full voltage is applied then the pixel allows full transmittance of the backlight. When this is done over the entire pixel grid in patterns, then you see those patterns on the screen.

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Interesting. A few weeks ago, Barnes & Noble starting selling refurbished Nook Color e-readers for $199. Not long after, I started seeing them as low as $179.99 from outlets like 1 Sale A Day. (Incidentally, I ordered one from there; it arrived in about three days, and in mint condition.)

Now, Buy.com has the refurbished Nook Color for $169 shipped. But here's the interesting part: they're selling them on behalf of B&N. Which makes me think something's up.

I have a couple guesses. First, B&N knows a competing color Kindle product … Read more

Students who buy a Nook before heading back to school can fill their new e-reader with $100 worth of free books courtesy of Barnes & Noble.

Launching a new back-to-school promotion, the folks at B&N are offering a collection of classics and study guides that may come in handy during the next semester's reading assignments (and save the parents a bit of cash).

The retailer is offering 12 free classics, among them "Beowulf," "A Tale of Two Cities," "Crime and Punishment," and "Metamorphosis." Eager students will also receive Spark Notes study guides … Read more

If you've always wanted a multicolored Lomo-style camera but want the convenience of high-quality digital images, the wait might just be over. Color customization company ColorWare lets you customize a Leica D-Lux 5 compact camera according to your preference, including the snapper's front, back, sides, top panel, port door, hot shoe insert, and lens cap. … Read more