Usain Bolt – Biggest Deal EVER!

Usain Bolt Signs Biggest Athletics Sponsorship Deal EVER With Puma – Usain Bolt has signed the biggest sponsorship deal in athletics history, extending his contract with Puma to 2013 and catapulting the triple world record holder into the kind of financial terrain usually reserved for star footballers. The exact figure has not been disclosed, but a source close to the deal said the sum is comparable to Cristiano Ronaldo’s four-year contract with Nike, worth US$32.5m (£21m). [guardian]

Elin Nordegren Speaks: Never Expected Affairs – With her divorce finalized, Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods‘ ex-wife, is speaking out for the first (and what she says may be the last) time. People magazine landed the exclusive, but is saving most of the juicy details for readers of the print edition. However all the network morning shows got a preview, and filed detailed reports this morning. Nordegren didn’t address the cheating directly, although she said “I’ve been through hell.” [mediaite]

Police And Prison Warders To Join Strike – This is interesting. About 145 000 South African police and traffic officers as well as prison warders will join the public sector wage strike on Saturday, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said on Wednesday. Hmm, not ideal. And there I was thinking Popcru was something to do with Big Concerts. [mail&guardian]

Murdered British Spy Found Stuffed In Sports Bag – A British spy who was found dead in the bath of a flat in London was killed before his body was stuffed into a sports bag where it lay decomposing for up to two weeks. The man, named locally as Gareth Williams, was on secondment at the headquarters of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, in Vauxhall, just across the Thames from where his body was found. Spy stories – gotta love ’em. [telegraph]

Bono And Steve Jobs About To Go To War – Broken friendships produce the bitterest feuds, which explains the big beef between Steve Jobs’ Apple and Bono’s Elevation Partners. Now Elevation is investing in Pandora, the beloved internet radio site edging ever closer to competition with Apple.Elevation’s forthcoming investment, which TechCrunch sources peg at around $100 million, may be the best warning yet that Apple and Pandora are on a collision course. [valleywag]

Is The Ferrari 458 Cursed? – The latest Ferrari supercar is being plagued by a mysterious jinx – after ten of them crashed or were gutted by fire. In the past three months, six 200mph Ferrari 458 Italias have been involved in accidents, three have caught fire and one was wrecked in a warehouse blaze. There is no apparent technical fault with the £170,000 supercar – it appears the owners are simply the victims of bad luck. [dailymail]

Google Voice Telephone Booths Being Installed Around The US – In order to promote its new, cutting-edge calling technology, Google is going retro with dozens of phone booths set to sweep the nation’s airports and colleges.At a press event at Google’s offices in San Francisco, the company launched Google Voice integration with Gmail, giving users the ability to make and receive phone calls from their inboxes. [mashable]

Charlize Theron Sizzles In Elle – Look, I know we think we are biased because she is ours, but the overseas publications and blogs go just as nuts for the Benoni Princess, Charlize Theron. Mind you, they do the same for Candice Swanepoel. Neverthless, old Charlize has been spotted killing it in the latest Russian issue of Elle magazine. Because she likes it like that. Warning…NSFW [egotastic]

E-Cigarettes Spark New Smoking Legal Fight – Ms. Vasconcellos imports electronic cigarettes from a Chinese manufacturer and sells them on her website, Cignot.com, to 14,000 customers. The 48-year-old is part of a growing legion of e-cigarette purveyors who are defying the Food and Drug Administration, which contends the nascent nicotine products are drug devices that require pre-market approval and may pose their own health risks. [wallstreetjournal]

Greek Archeologists Claim To Have Found Ulysses’ Palace – A Greek archeologists team claims that Homer’s epic “Odyssey” is based on truth, on the basis of a three story, 8th century BC structure the team has unearthed on the Island of Ithaca in the Ionian Sea. They say that the ancient palace, which they have found is exactly as described by Homer in “Odyssey” and that the legendary Greek king “Ulysses” really existed. Hellooooo!! I’ve been saying that all along!! [allvoices]

Sole Survivor Of Amazon Tribe Is Most Isolated Man On Earth – Nobody knows his name, nobody knows his tribe’s name, and nobody knows what happened to the rest of his people. The last man of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon is now being protected from the outside world by the Brazilian government. Officials have created a 31 square-mile exclusion zone in his patch of rain forest to keep out loggers, something local logging companies aren’t too happy about. In fact, nobody is allowed inside. [gadling]

Facebook Reckons “No One Else Can Be A ‘Book'” – If you’re planning on setting up any kind of online community for your business, know that Facebook has begun suing to protect “the distinctive BOOK portion” of its trademark, starting with Teachbook.com.”If others could freely use ‘generic plus BOOK’ marks for online networking services the suffix BOOK could become a generic term for ‘online community/networking services’ or ‘social networking services’.” Fair enough. We’ve done the same with the word “vibe.” {Jokes). [gawker]

Peek Inside Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s Awesome Luxury Yacht – How would you travel if money were no object? Perhaps, like Beyoncé and Jay-Z, you’d rent a 180-foot, Italian-made Benetti Luxury yacht that goes for $377,000… a week. Worth it? Let’s take a look. [jezebel]

Andiamo At Cape Quarter Makes Dining A Little Bit Silly – Yes we are all tired of the Capetonians harping on about where to go – it’s like some kind of competition of who knows the most spots. 2oceansvibe Radio’s neighbour, Andiamo at the Cape Quarter have kinda simplified the problem and you sommer say ‘lets go” (thats IItalian btw). Its a no brainer when they are offering 2 pastas or pizzas and 2 glasses of wine for R99 bucks. To quote Balki from Perfect Strangers “Get out of the city!” [andiamo]

What Do Movie Reviews, Gossip & Currie Cup Rugby Captains Have In Common? – Thursday morning at 2oceansvibe Radio, that’s what. Blue Hoop Captain and lock-forward, Anton Van Zyl will be stepping on to the green, green grass of the studio on Thursday morning to discuss Western Province’s prospects in the Currie Cup. After which we move to our regular Thursday slot with our in-house film guru, The Spling. Not such a bad way to bridge the gap to Friday, hey? Keep a sharp eye out for giveaways and shenanigans on 2oceansvibe’s Twitter feed. [tune in at 2oceansviberadio]

[thanks henk]