December 20, 2004
Get Ur Geek On

- Dan Gillmor, the last top tech writer standing at the San Jose Mercury News, has decided to leave the Knight-Ridder corporate family to become a 'Citizen Journalist.' Is that a fancy term for unemployed blogger? [From Slashdot]
- PowerLight, of Berkeley, has installed the world's largest solar array in warm, sunny Germany. SuperaffenT****nturbogeil, naturlick! [From SFgate]
- Apple can't keep up with demand for Mac computers, so you better get your butt down to the Apple Store and grab what you can, or your relationship will founder on the rocks of the iRiver. [From Cult of Mac]
- Avnish Baja, U.S. Citizen and CEO of eBay subsidiary Baazee.com, was arrested in Delhi after flying there to help in the investigation into a pornographic video-phone recording which a third party was selling through the hindi auction site. That's right - dude took the listing off the site when asked, used Baazee's servers to track down the seller, flew to Delhi to help, and was arrested. And you thought John Ashcroft was an incompetent reactionary. [From MacWorld via Google News]
- Speaking of Apple and lawyers, the Cupertino company has now filed suit over the leaking of information on an unnamed upcoming product to an unnamed defendant. Read: some blogger with a friend at Apple published some news regarding the release of some new product, like the Motorola/Apple 'iPhone' that may or may not be the fulfillment of a new flash-memory, iTunes enabled cellphone prophecy. [From Cult of Mac]
- And Electronic Arts is all over the place. We've covered their issues with overtime pay and overworked employees. Now they're in hot water over their exclusive licensing deal with the NFL (in effect giving them a monopoly on the American Football video game market) and are also rumored to be staging a takeover of fellow local video game vendor UbiSoft. Who knew the new Vanderbilts would be video game manufacturers? [From Newsday via Kotaku]

