I logged into my gmail today to find this peculiar form. It seems that gmail have advanced to their largest yet, offering 50 invites per gmail account? Well strangely enough, I logged into my other two accounts and found they had 10 invites, and 5! It seems that this is either an error, or they are simply updating accounts strangely. Want an invite, well i’ve got 50 so your welcome to them! Post a comment here if you want one.

A Swedish police officer has confessed he robbed a bank and later investigated the crime himself, telling reporters at the time police had no clues. A court in the central town of Bollnas Monday officially charged the 36-year-old for the armed robbery on Dec. 17, court documents said Tuesday, adding he had pleaded guilty. The amount of money stolen was not disclosed but was described as sizeable. An hour after the crime the police officer returned to the bank as a leading police investigator handling the case. Colleagues became suspicious when he bought a new car in mid-January, paying 219,000...

A Texas man charged with removing a pacemaker from his mother’s body with a kitchen knife refused to give authorities the device in exchange for his freedom on Tuesday, prosecutors said. James Allan Donalson, 59, said he sliced out the pacemaker after his 85-year-old mother, Ann Donalson, died of natural causes on Sunday so he would have evidence in a 10-year dispute involving doctors and the medical device company that provided it, the sheriff’s department said. Donalson was released on a $5,000 bond on Tuesday. Prosecutors offered to drop a felony charge of evidence tampering if he...

Talking on a cell phone makes you drive like a retiree â€â€? even if you’re only a teen, a new study shows. A report from the University of Utah says when motorists between 18 and 25 talk on cell phones, they drive like elderly people â€â€? moving and reacting more slowly and increasing their risk of accidents. “If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a cell phone, his reaction times are the same as a 70-year-old driver,” said David Strayer, a University of Utah psychology professor and principal author of the study. “It’s like...

Microsoft’s leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples’ ears. To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft’s management, Apple Computer’s iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft’s workers. To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft’s management, Apple Computer’s iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft’s workers. It is unknown if Bill Gates is the happy owner of an iPod. “About 80...

Though Apple computer is known for some of the computing and technology industry’s most notable innovations, its not as if the company hasn’t also taken its lumps. Thomas Hormby submitted the following editorial contribution to osOpinion/osViews, which supplies us with his top ten list of Apple’s (and some of associated partners) most significant flops throughout the company’s history.   OSViews [ article cont ]

“BrandChannel readers have picked the top global brands for 2004. Apple is the leader, closely followed by Google. Arab-centric Al-Jazeera ranks fifth in global as well as Europe/Africa ratings. In regionwise ratings, Google tops North America, Ikea tops Europe/Africa, Sony tops Asia-pacific while Mexican cement brand Cemex tops Latin America An interesting fact is that Steve Jobs headed Apple is the top North American brand while his other venture Pixar comes fifth in the same zeitgeist.” Slashdot [ article ] Good for Al Jazeera especially!

  Apple has released a new PowerBook G4, with every new PowerBook G4 features faster PowerPC G4 processors with speeds topping the charts at 1.67GHz. Want power to burn? The new PowerBook models offer 8x SuperDrives. And each PowerBook comes standard with 512MB of memory and a 5400-rpm hard disk drive. Starting at just $1499. What can I say, that means a longer wait for the G5! I mean saying ‘new powerbooks’ really means nothing more then ‘apple upgraded their pb specs’ which doesn’t mean much but oh well..! You can find them on the Apple website