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Canon has launched two Cameras: The PowerShot SX10 IS and PowerShot SX1 IS. Both are good choices for people wanting more than a point and shoot but don’t want the complexity of an SLR. Also note, that with features come weight, both these models are around 550gms which is as heavy as an SLR.

What’s common between the two:

• 10 Megapixel
• 20X optical zoom, yes 20!!
• Wide angle
• Image Stabilisation
• Takes standard SD/MMC/MMC Plus Memory
• CMOS based, which means better picture quality.
• Vari-Angle LCD screen that can be moved around, giving you flexibility.
• Face Detection: Camera automatically detects faces in a photo and focuses.
• Video recording.
• Standard AA/NiMH batteries

The SX1 is just being launched as we speak and has a few extras overs SX10.

• High Definition Video
• HDMI Port
• and 2.8″ LCD while the SX10 has 2.5″ LCD

Only if the High Definition video is important for you, go for the SX1. As right now the SX1 is significantly more expensive.

Read more at DPReview.

After the iPhone has shaken up the cellphone market, celllphone manufacturers are desperately trying to create an iPhone killer.

Nokia too announced the Nokia N97 to compete in this space and here are the features:

• 3.5″ Wide Screen (16:9)
• Symbian
• WiFi and HSDPA
• A-GPS
• 3.5 mm standard headphone jack.
• MicroSD slot.
• 5 Megapixel Camera with Carl Zeiss lens.
• 32GB onboard memory, expandable to 48 MB.

Unlike the iPhone, Nokia is following a lot of standards, which is plus.

Nokia is desperately trying to by adding more features over the iPhone, but they need to understand that features is not the reason why iPhone is selling millions its the whole experience. Not sure if this will be an iPhone killer but surely iPhone is a Killer

After having bad support experience from Nokia, I am personally not going to touch Nokia in the near future.

As the global economy is slowing down, companies are now looking at Open Source more seriously. With IT budgets experiencing a significant cut, open source is the best way to save cost.

So the bad economy is actually working out good for open source. It also breaks the company out of the vendor locking where they are forced to upgrade by proprietary software vendors.

Business week has a nice article:

Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software

My friend Leslie took me to this wonderful restaurant and I really enjoyed the food and the concept.

Located in Salt Lake City  and called One World Everybody Eats. The restaurant has no price, no menu, eat as much as you like and pay what ever you like.

They serve only organic food and their mission is to eradicate hunger.

The best part is, they are making reasonable profit.

If you happen to be in Salt Lake City (SLC), please do visit. Here is where you will find them:

One World Everybody Eats
41 South 300 East
Salt Lake City, UT  84111