CNet:

In preparation for its split into two separate companies, Palm has come up with a name for its new, hardware-only self: PalmOne.

It looks a lot more like pa1mOne from here.  And Russ had me thinking that they might have actually come up with something good…

I think it’s awesome that Scoble and other Microsoft employees are volunteering to help out at call centers in order to help customers get patched and protected from MSBlast.

Talk about above and beyond.  Rock on.

I can’t classify this as an official rumor, and I can reveal my source, but there are rumblings out there that Canon is going to announce internally that they are aiming for a Digital Rebel, a consumer-level (or prosumer) digital SLR camera targeting the sub-$1000 price range.

If this is true, it could rock the camera industry.  I don’t know any more, but if I find anything out, you know that I’ll post it.  No, my information didn’t come from a website somewhere, but a person.  I just hope that they’re right.

Infoworld:

Microsoft Corp. has pulled the WindowsUpdate.com Internet address in an effort to thwart an attack on its systems by computers infected with the Blaster worm, the company said Friday.

MS: We’ll show that worm that we can beat it.  Let’s take our site down.

Worm: Mission accomplished.

My colo box has been down for most of the afternoon.

It’s definately not my box, as www.coloco.com has been unreachable most of the afternoon.

I might swing by in the morning to see what’s up if it’s not fixed by then.

Mail is bouncing, but at least I don’t have any production stuff on that box yet.

Hopefully it’s a network outage and not a power outage, as I’d rather not loose my 70 or so days of uptime.

PocketFeed got a nice writeup at Pocket PC Thoughts.

DPReview lets loose a Sony press release about the DSC-U50:

Sony has today announced the ultra-compact and stylish Cybershot DSC-U50. This $250 compact digital camera has a rotating lens element with a fixed focal length lens and a two megapixel CCD. The DSC-U50 is the first Sony Cybershot to record images to the smaller MemoryStick Duo format, so far only used on PDA’s and mobile phones. The press release also makes note of a new ‘Memory Stick Duo Pro’, something we’ve not heard of before.

I’m not sure how tiny it is, but I’m an extremely happy user of the DSC-U20, and it’ll have to be microscopic for me to think about picking it up.  It does take the Memory Stick Duo format, which means that it has the potential to by tiny!

Via Jeremy, the Blackout Moblog is absolutely classic.

Thanks to a heads up by the chaps in #mobitopia, The Washington Post:

NEW YORK – A massive power outage swept across swaths of the eastern United States and Canada on Thursday, leaving sections of New York City, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto without electricity, witnesses said.

Film at 11, but this definately doesn’t strike me as a good thing, regardless of why it is happening.

Similar coverage can be had at CNN.

BBC News is providing better coverage than stateside news outlets, as usual.