pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/psshootout.jpg" width="807" height="415" style="display:block;float:none;" /There are a lot of $200-$300 point and shoots on the market right now, and there's no way the test display at Best Buy is going to tell you which to buy. How is elbowing other shoppers while analyzing your hasty snapshots on a 3-inch, low-rez screen going to help you make an informed buying decision?/p pInstead, I put six of the most popular point-and-shoots on the market through some major testing. Then I decided on the one that you should buy without the hedging BS./p pstrongMeet our competitors/strongbr emEach of these compact point and shoots features optical image stabilization and is priced around $250:/em/p pa href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=camerascamcorderstype=digitalcamerassubtype=tlseriesmodel_cd=EC-TL9ZZBBA/US"Samsung TL9 ($280)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoActfcategoryid=145modelid=16718#ModelDetailAct"Canon SD790 ($250)/abr 10MP, 3X zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-Camera/26120/COOLPIX-S560.html"Nikon S560 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5X zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551storeId=10151langId=-1productId=8198552921665309170"Sony W170 ($250)/abr 10MP, 5x zoom, 2.7-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Digital-Cameras/Lumix-Digital-Cameras/model.DMC-FS20K_11002_7000000000000005702"Panasonic FS20 ($250)/abr 10MP, 4x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pa href="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=13044pq-locale=en_US_requestid=7962"Kodak M1093 ($200)/abr 10MP, 3x zoom, 3-inch LCD/p pstrongStudio Shoot/strongbr The shots inside were captured under diffused sunlight in full auto mode at max (10MP) resolution. I won't say that it wasn't an extreme disappointment that only one camera, the Kodak, was able to shoot with proper white balance in this situation and offer us colors as they really look (you'll have to trust me on this one). The other cameras compensated poorly, possibly metering the diffused light as tungsten light, and producing a fairly cold image because of it.br script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('camerabattlemodo', 6,''); /scriptbr Other than the color, you can't make out much from the wide shots. But if you blow the images up to their native resolution, there are huge differences. Even in the web-compressed images here, it's obvious that Canon captures the most detail:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canoncookies2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="440" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pIt's basically a tie between Sony and Kodak for second place. Here's what Kodak looks like:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakcookie2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="466" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pAnd then there's a pretty hard drop in quality. Panasonic comes in a solid last place here:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasoniccookie2compressed.jpg" width="807" height="384" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pYou can fix the color by manually choosing a smarter white balance (color temperature), or adjusting the balance in post. But you can't get the texture of those cookies back. Big win for Canon here./p pstrongMotion Photography/strongbr It's no secret that many point-and-shoots are horrible for capturing the spontaneity of a child or pet, in part due to focus lag and often an additional wait before the shot is actually taken. While DSLRs are the best solution, I wanted to see if any point-and-shoots could rise to the challenge of capturing some action./p pSo I put them to the test on a Chicago side street where cars get up to 15-20mph. After repeat testing on each model, once again, we had a clear winner. Trouble is, it's Panasonic, loser of the resolution match! Panasonic features more shooting settings than any of its competitors, so my guess is that they spent a lot of time on optimizing at least this particular preset optimization.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicmotion.jpg" width="807" height="518" style="display:block;float:none;" /br The remainder of the competition was fairly close, and I can't say that even the Panasonic model will capture any incredible sports action photography. But I will say that the Nikon and Samsung seemed to lag more than the others from button press to shot acquisition. They both tended to have the blurriest shots as well. Here's a typical result of the Nikon:br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonmotion2.jpg" width="807" height="556" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongVideo/strongbr Like high-speed photography, point-and-shoots aren't fundamentally designed for video. But then again, since they all shoot video, people have begun using them more frequently than they ever used their bigger, more specialized camcorders, so a test was necessary./p pAfter playing some billiards, I found Canon's image, though not technically the highest resolution, to be the best. A point as well to its realistic sound capture of ball on ball action.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/canonvideo.jpg" width="807" height="476" style="display:block;float:none;" /br Second place goes to Kodak. Even though you can make out a great deal of grain on the table's felt surface, it also captures a relatively sharp, pleasantly contrasty image when you examine each ball.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/kodakpicnewsss.jpg" width="807" height="445" style="display:block;float:none;" /br Last place? This title is, once again, reserved for Panasonic. For some reason, the camera interpreted the red table as some sort of blurry pastel. And the sound was a like a fast food drive-through speaker.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/panasonicvideo.jpg" width="807" height="454" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongFlash/strongbr We've all been there. It's late. A friend is in town. Your cameraphone can't hope to capture a shot in your drunken stupor, especially as you're hanging out in a smokey bar. I'd loved to have recreated this scene precisely in its brilliance, but instead I opted to take pictures of my cat with the lights low.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/sonyflash.jpg" width="807" height="529" style="display:block;float:none;" /br It's an unfair challenge for a small-lensed, small-chipped camera to capture a decent picture in low light, even with flash as a crutch, but the Sony did as well as I could have hoped, illuminating my subject and her background alike, lacking the hotspots of most flash photography./p pThe other cameras were predictably mediocre, but the absolute worst at handling flash had to be the Nikon. Not only did it give my cat a washed-out glow, but it didn't even consider properly exposing that obnoxious pile of boxes behind her. The shame.br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/nikonflash.jpg" width="807" height="540" style="display:block;float:none;" //p pstrongWeird Features and Gimmicks/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/samsung-tl9.jpg" class="center" style="display:block;" /None of these items should probably determine your buying decision, but I wanted to mention a few of the more...interesting features of the cameras. The Samsung TL9 has a set of snazzy analog dials on top that display battery life and remaining memory like a car's dashmdash;plus it plays music and movies. The Panasonic has categorized an Intelligent Auto Mode that gives a lazy but informed user a nice way to tell the camera, "hey, you may need to boost the ISO," without messing with any other controls or gimmicky menus. The Nikon will warn you if a subject's eyes are closed. The Canon has ditched the standard up, down, left, right menu dial for a spinning ring...that's bold, if not always intuitive. And Sony will shoot in 16x9 or stretch images to that ratio for quick HDTV slideshows. Plus, smile/face detectors are everywhere. How did we ever take pictures before boxes enclosed a loved one's face?/p pstrongSo What Should You Buy?/strongbr After all my testing, I'd recommend the Canon SD790. Sure, it didn't win every category, but it won the one that counts mostmdash;detail. It came first in the video category. And it never ever fell flat on its face./p pMaybe this conclusion sounds a little too clinical to you. If so, let me say that there are less tangible elements I appreciate about the Canon SD790: It includes the best built battery charger and it is the only model tested to sync with a computer via mini USB (as opposed to some annoying proprietary cable or dock). On top of those, it always seems quick to capture a shot after I pressed for the shutter, though it's still not nearly as responsive as my prosumer DSLR. The one thing I'd ask for in this camera is a more powerful zoom lens./p pIf you know an extreme technophobe, you might tell them about the Kodak M1093. It offers the simplest shooting experience with one button to choose a photo mode, one button for flash toggling and one button to actually take a picture. Digital cameras don't get simpler than that, and I have to admit, as the cheapest model in this roundup ($200), with the least techie brand name, it performs better than I expectedmdash;though it does have a propensity to bump the ISO, producing some unwanted noise./p pBut as for the Sony W170, while it does feature the widest angle lens with 5x of zoom, it's clunky in the hand and rarely brilliant in quality. As for the Nikon S560, it takes mediocre shots. The Panasonic FS20 is inconsistentmdash;bordering on horrendous much of the timemdash;and features a small screen and a dated interface. Meanwhile, the Samsung TL9 just completely fails to impress me./p pSo go ahead, pick up the Canon. It seems the company's overwhelming market share is well deserved. Or don't. I won't lose sleep or anything. 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A line-cutting dispute among shoppers who waited for hours outside a New York Wal-Mart and those who stayed inside their cars led to the stampede that killed a worker for the store, Newsday reports.

South African shoppers can save and create jobs in these tough economic times by buying only locally-produced goods, trade union federation Cosatu says.

A tough economic climate coupled with growing environmental awareness may be the best recipe for ushering in "green" lifestyle changes this holiday season. For many Christmas shoppers, the perfect gift this year will be one that is made in the USA with a small carbon footprint, using recycled materials, with the ability to promote eco-conscious living - without breaking the budget. (PRWeb Dec 4, 2008)

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a href="http://www.careerjournal.com/article/SB122826483720274329.html""We're not selling here -- we're hunting!"/a The young man or woman at the mall kiosk who grabs your shoulder and says quot;Can I have twenty seconds of your time to show you something amazing?quot; might be a young Israeli saving up for a pre-army jaunt to Asia or South America. The U.S. kiosk trade has become popular enough in Israel to inspire a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cc55QnowDc"a folk-rock song/a by musician and kiosk veteran Rami Feinstein. The Wall Street Journal offers a generally admiring profile of the Israeli a href="http://www.careerjournal.com/article/SB122826483720274329.html"quot;natural-born closers.quot;/a The Capital Times, in Madison, WI, a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/business/313887"wishes they'd buzz off./a br /

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/walmart.jpg" width="300" height="196" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/According to our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5100474/question-of-the-day-who-is-most-to-blame-for-the-walmart-trampling-incident"recent poll/a, only 12% of respondents blame Walmart for the tragic a href="http://gizmodo.com/5099819/walmart-worker-trampled-to-death-by-deal+crazed-black-friday-shoppers"death of a 34 year old employee/a in the Black Friday rush. But when it comes to lawsuits, money talks. /p pNaturally, the family of victim Jdimytai Damour is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Walmart, the adjacent Green Acres Mall, the company that manages the property and the company in charge of security. In their view Wamart was "engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and mayhem and was otherwise careless, reckless and negligent." /p pDespite his 6-5, 270 pound stature, Damour died of asphyxiation when trampled by the 2000+ shoppers that fled into the store that night. The amount that the family is suing for has not been disclosed, but I'm sure that they will get what they ask for. Not that money is much consolation mind youmdash;especially when it appears that the shoppers involved will most likely get away scot free. [a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28034543/"MSNBC/a emThanks Matt!/em]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=04196cd884c958ecd3a95cd3a4d4d509amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=04196cd884c958ecd3a95cd3a4d4d509amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=o4TwCYGi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=0f6zuX4f"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=VxBmMwhJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=VxBmMwhJ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=6WBY23IL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=6WBY23IL" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/WQL1jsMSDWE" height="1" width="1"/

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Stores Clueless About Mobile Barcode Scanning Applications?  —  With the rise of app-laden smartphones like the iPhone and Google's Android OS, now on T-Mobile's G1, many penny-pinching shoppers have downloaded barcode scanning applications onto their mobile devices.

The family of a New York man who was trampled to death the day after Thanksgiving by a stampede of bargain hunting Wal-Mart shoppers has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=kjXVo"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=kjXVo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=bJVPO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=bJVPO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=P3dvo"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=P3dvo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=gCMuo"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=gCMuo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=B7k6O"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=B7k6O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=Cu2xO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=Cu2xO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~4/473939549" height="1" width="1"/

The iPhone application, Amazon Remembers, lets shoppers send photos of products to Amazon and matches them with products in its inventory.

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Shoppers hit the Web in force on Monday, which led to the second-biggest online shopping day on record.

Shoppers hit the Web in force on Monday, which led to the second-biggest online shopping day on record.

pimg src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/3080311410_8d83fc14b8_o.jpg" width="150" height="118" alt="scanning_barcode" /With the rise of app-laden smartphones like the iPhone and Google's Android OS, now on T-Mobile's G1, many penny-pinching shoppers have downloaded barcode scanning applications onto their mobile devices. These apps allow consumers to compare the prices of merchandise on a store's shelf to competing stores in the area just by taking pictures with their smartphone's camera. The prices are instantly retrieved and displayed on the mobile phone so consumers can know embefore/em they buy if they're getting a good deal. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12798amp;cb=12798' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12798amp;n=12798' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pAlthough consumers may be catching on to this barcode-scanning trend, some stores are still in the dark. For example, a href="http://www.biggu.com/2008/12/01/first-shopsavvy-ban-target/"a Target store in Michigan recently requested a shopper to stop scanning merchandise/a, saying it went against store policy. The customer reported the event to the application's makers, a href="http://www.biggu.com/about-big-in-japan"Big in Japan/a, whose app a href="http://www.biggu.com/applications/"Shop Savvy/a is a popular download for Android handsets. /p pBig in Japan called the Target store in question and spoke to the manager, who indicated that she was not aware of the policy. We also contacted Target's corporate headquarters to confirm Target's policy, or lack thereof, but we first had to explain the application to the company representative. They had never heard of such a thing before! (As it turns out, Target has no policy whatsoever on barcode scanning their merchandise.)/p pThe same customer also noted they had visited Sam's Club, where they demonstrated the application to a store employee who seemed "confounded that such technology even existed," wrote the user. /p h2Instant Price Match Is Retail's Future/h2 pimg src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/3080299622_eae3d15aab_m.jpg" width="129" height="240" alt="shopsavvy" align="right"Although this is just anecdotal evidence from one customer, it's entirely believable that without concrete store policies in place, you're going to encounter rogue employees here and there who have no idea what you're doing and will ask you to stop. /p pOn the flip side, stores that do get hip to this trend may decide to implement store policies that ban scanning, once they realize that customers could discover their high prices. a href="http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2008/07/future-of-retail-instant-price-match.html"A post on AdLab/a for example, a blog about advertising and marketing, suggests retailers do just that. They also recommend retailers should consider investing in a a a href="http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/reviews/celljammers/index.shtml"cell phone jammer/a. They even provide a a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_XJseql2u5l0/SHhTYVu2qnI/AAAAAAAACYA/e3-W9Rs04o0/s1600-h/no_iphones.png"quot;No iPhones on Premisesquot; sign/a for printout./p pThat doesn't seem to be a very proactive way of dealing with the technology. In fact, it reminds us of how both the music and movie industry attempted to quash the pirating of songs and films: they just tried to make it stop. Instead of going a route destined for failure and trying to shut down barcode scanning altogether, retailers could choose to embrace the trend. They could offer easy-to-find barcodes on their promotional items with signage encouraging customers to compare the price instantly with other stores in the area. They could make barcode scanning the new advertising circular. /p pHopefully, stories like those of the Shop Savvy customer will remain isolated incidents and no other store employees will bother customers looking to save money. If you've used barcode scanning applications and have experiences to share, please let us know in the comments./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stores_clueless_about_mobile_barcode_scanning_applications.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/X-N8xt6rhPbFQJdufaJvB4EX-hE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/X-N8xt6rhPbFQJdufaJvB4EX-hE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=W24bngP9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=yNJQwnT7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=crZG87xm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=crZG87xm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=0IlyIfbt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=0IlyIfbt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=HEIEqyIq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=HEIEqyIq" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=9Ni98sgg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=ZYqIPScb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/SjBdxiZX6mM" height="1" width="1"/

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The siblings of a worker trampled to death by Wal-Mart shoppers looking for Black Friday bargains plan to sue the retailer and the shopping center, their lawyer tells FOXNews.com.

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Category: Entertainment
Released: Dec 02, 2008
Price: Free

Description:
Get into the holiday spirit with iXmas Snow Globe, an interactive snow globe built specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch. Interact with a small town square just a few nights before Christmas, as snow gently covers a scene filled with last-minute shoppers, beautiful architecture, breathtaking mountains, and a Christmas tree complete with flashing lights. Shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to make the snow fly around just like a real snow globe, and shake it repeatedly to play a sleigh bell sound � it�s the perfect Christmas party noisemaker! Features:- Tilt your iPhone or iPod Touch to circle around the scene- Shake hard to make snow fall and swirl around- Shake lightly to use as a sleigh bell noisemaker- Festive upbeat Christmas music- Great for all ages

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/71206?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Mighty+Tesco+feels+bite+of+the+Hamsterch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Tesco+%28Business%29%2CMorrisons+%28Business%29%2CSupermarkets+%28business%29%2CAdvertising+%28media%29%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CRecession+%28UK%29%2CUK+news%2CBusiness%2CMediac5=Credit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CMedia+Weekly%2CAdvertising+Mediac6=Julia+Finchc7=2008_12_03c8=1127801c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Tescoc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FTesco" width="1" height="1" //divpOn one side there is an ageing crooner in a cardigan and on the other an impish TV presenter who favours wooden beads. It is Countdown vs Top Gear with Des O'Connor versus Richard Hammond - and the man known as The Hamster is winning hands down./ppHammond and O'Connor are going head-to-head as the Christmas TV faces of two of the UK's biggest supermarkets, and O'Connor's Tesco is now trailing way behind Hammond's Morrisons. Tesco, the UK's biggest retailer, yesterday revealed its worst sales figures for 14 years. Like-for-like sales - which exclude gains from new stores - were ahead just 2% in the last three months, or half the growth achieved in the previous quarter./ppIn an unusually gloomy quarterly trading update, Tesco's chief executive, Sir Terry Leahy, blamed the economic downturn: "We are pleased with our progress, but we are also realistic - the current economic climate and the strain this is putting on consumers everywhere is something that all businesses are feeling, including ours." But not all supermarkets are as gloomy. Bradford-based Morrisons is - so far - storming through the recession. Tomorrow it is expected to reveal recent sales up around 7.5% on last year - maintaining much the same impressive rate of growth as it reported three months ago./ppTesco's performance is also markedly worse than its rivals Sainsbury and Asda. Sainsbury - which has hired "I'm a Celebrity ..." hosts Ant and Dec to star in its adverts alongside its usual frontman Jamie Oliver - last month revealed li