Netflix has announced today that they have expanded their licensing agreement with NBC Universal, making more NBC TV shows available through the "Watch Instantly" streaming catalog.

The deal will include more seasons of hit shows like "30 Rock," "The Office," "Friday Night Lights" and "Law & Order: SVU."

"Saturday Night Live" episodes will be available the day after they air from now on.

Furthermore, the new deal adds episodes of "Battlestar Galactica," "Destination Truth" and "Eureka."

"This agreement adds meaningfully to the wide variety of content that can be streamed from Netflix and breaks new ground in our relationship with NBC Universal," adds Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer (via the WSJ).

Netflix continues to add movie and TV content on a regular basis, striking deals with Starz, Relativity Media, Fox and NBCU.

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iReader Review has noted today that Scrabble has become the first paid, third-party app for the Amazon Kindle.

EA has quietly added the app to the Kindle Store, at a hefty price of $4.99.

To play the game, you will need a second or third generation Kindle, or a Kindle DX.

You will not even be able to download the game if you have a first-generation Kindle e-reader.

While the Kindles have Internet access via either 3G or Wi-Fi, or both, the game only supports multi-player on the device, not online.

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Target has finally officially announced it will begin carrying the Apple iPad in its brick-and-mortar stores.

The retailer will begin selling all six models of the popular tablet on October 3rd.

Starting with the 16GB/Wi-Fi model at $499, all the way to the 64GB/3G/Wi-Fi model at $829, the retailer says all Target credit-card holders will receive a 5 percent discount.

There are currently 1743 Targets in the United States, with the company planning to remodel 400 of the stores in 2011.

Additionally in its press statement, the company announced it was expanding 450 stores to add groceries.

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According to multiple sources, HBO is set to launch a 3D on-demand channel in the Q1 2011.

HBO has not officially announced the channel, but a service spokesperson confirmed the plans.

Furthermore, the channel will launch with a world premiere of a 3D version of the blockbuster Inception.

For now, Warner Bros. says there are no plans for an Inception 3D conversion.

It was reported earlier in the year that Warner tried to convert Inception to 3D before its initial theater run, but director Christopher Nolan would not sign off on it, citing "Clash of the Titans'" poor reviews.

Looking to the future, Warner is expected to begin filming the third Batman movie in 3D next year.

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Androidandme has posted video today of a prototype device unveiled at the GTC 2010 show, one that features a glasses-free 3D display.

A gaming UI company called Scaleform was showing off the prototype, which was built by Master Image and runs on a Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.

The device runs on the Android mobile OS.

Androidanme says the visual display was very impressive and that a device using the screen and features could be available as soon as the Q2 2011.

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Despite Best Buy having the device up for pre-order for a couple of weeks, T-Mobile had not yet officially put the flagship G2 up for sale.

That has changed this week, with existing T-Mobile smartphone owners being sent an email offering them the chance to pre-order directly from the carrier.

The G2 will be T-Mobile's first device to support HSPA+, the carrier's very fast 3.5G/4G data network.

Furthermore, the device will have an 800MHz Snapdragon MSM7230 processor, which has the HSPA+ support built-in. While slower than current 1GHz chips, the processor can still record 720p video and handle Flash videos.

The G2 will also run a stock Android 2.2 (with no custom UI) and will have Swype as the default keypad.

Made by HTC, the phone has a 3.7-inch multi-touch screen, an optical trackpad, a 5MP camera with LED flash, 4GB of internal memory and an extra 8GB microSDHC card.

Upgrade price is $200 with contract, $500 without.

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Sony has warned gamers this week that counterfeit PlayStation 3 controllers are likely to explode or ignite when used.

The controllers, which are "identical in appearance to genuine PlayStation 3 wireless controllers," are becoming more popular, says the company.

While cheaper than the official PS3 controllers, Sony says the "quality, reliability, and safety of counterfeit products is uncertain."

It is unclear which counterfeit controllers Sony is directly talking about, or what company's are selling them, but the products may "ignite or explode, resulting in injury or damage to the user, your PlayStation 3, or other property."

Furthermore, the "SCEA does not support continued functionality of counterfeit or unlicensed controllers in system software updates and these devices may cease to function in the future because of system software updates."

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Marvell has unveiled their latest mobile SoC (system-on-a-chip) this week, the ARMADA 628.

The latest chip promises to be a "game changer," running three-cores and clocking in at 1.5GHz.

Marvell says the SoC will run on an ARM v7 infrastructure, likely the Cortex A9 MPCore.

With that computing power, a phone running the chip could playback two simultaneous 1080p 3D video-streams.

Without revealing the capacity of the battery, Marvell says "advanced power-saving features also mean that the chip can play back a high-def video for around ten hours 'on a single charge.'"

Additionally, the company says the first two cores run at high performance, but the final core is "optimized for low-power operation and is clocked at only 624MHz." Because of the low clock speed, the chip can run system-level operations without killing battery by using the more powerful cores.

The chip should make its way into tablets and smartphones within 12 months.

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