Virgin Permits Mobile Calls On Flights – From today, passengers on Virgin Atlantic’s new Airbus A330 jet flying the London to New York route will be allowed to make calls, send and receive text messages, as well as accessing emails and using a basic internet access via GPRS. [heraldsun]

Authorities Escalate Clifton Salvage – The South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) will lead attempts to pull the stricken Japanese longliner, Eihatsu Maru, from the shore at Clifton First Beach, after previous attempts failed. City spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said the operation would take place between 10:00 and 13:20 on Tuesday. [news24]

Facebook IPO Balloons To $104 Billion – Late Monday, the social network raised the price range for its IPO to $34 to $38 a share, from $28 to $35 a share. The company’s initial price range put Facebook’s valuation at $77 billion to $96 billion, but that rises to $93 billion to $104 billion under the new price range. [wallstreetjournal]

Malema: Listen Carefully, I Will Be President One Day – Julius Malema may have been expelled from the ANC, but that hasn’t dented his ambitions, or stopped him from telling press conferences about them. [mail&guardian]

Breivik: Survivor Clung To Cliff As Friend Died – An 18-year-old has told a Norwegian court how he clung to a cliff on the country’s Utoya island for hours to avoid the bullets of gunman Anders Behring Breivik. Marius Hoft watched his best friend fall down the cliff face to his death, he told Oslo district court. “I started crying, but decided to wait with the tears until I was in safety. [skynews]

DA And Cosatu Head For ‘Street Battle’ – The gloves are expected to come off when the DA marches to Cosatu’s offices in Braamfontein, this morning. The DA has accused the labour federation of being a stumbling block to job creation. DA leaders Helen Zille, Lindiwe Mazibuko and Musi Maimane will lead the march. Cosatu has promised to reply with bigger numbers around its offices. [timeslive]

JP Morgan CIO Quits, Amid Massive Losses – The leader of JPMorgan Chase & Co’s hedging unit is retiring after trading losses that could end up exceeding $3 billion (1.86 billion pounds), a shortfall that President Barack Obama said might have led the government to step in had such losses struck a smaller bank. [reuters]

Pirate Pay torrent ‘blocker’ backed by Microsoft – A Russian company has developed software it says can disrupt and prevent people from downloading pirated content. Pirate Pay has been backed by Microsoft and has so far worked with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures to stop “thousands” of downloads. [bbc]

Kim Kardashian Chops Hair For Vogue Italia – Let’s all say it together now: The most notorious of the Kardshi-klan was spotted with short hair (!) taking part in a very special photo shoot over the weekend — which she says is for Vogue Italia, the Italian edition of that most esteemed brand of fashion mags. [huffpo]

FW De Klerk Addresses ‘Twisted’ Comments – Former president FW de Klerk made his first public appearance – after the controversial CNN interview in Chicago, US with Christiane Amanpour – at the opening of the South African Gold Coin Exchange’s 30th outlet in Cape Town. [timeslive]

Ex-Yahoo CV-Fiddling Chief Has Cancer – Before resigning as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. over the weekend, Scott Thompson disclosed to the company’s board of directors and several colleagues that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, according to people familiar with the matter. [wsj]

John Travolta Can Expect ‘One Hell Of A Trial’ – The lawyer representing an anonymous masseur who claims to have been sexually harassed by John Travolta says the “Pulp Fiction” actor can look forward to “one hell of a fight” in court. [huffpo]

US Town Bans ‘Walking And Texting’ – Police in the US town of Fort Lee, New Jersey, have started a battle against texters who aren’t looking where they’re going. Anyone caught texting whilst walking is fined for “jaywalking”, an American term for walking on the road instead of the pavement. [bbc]

Spectacular 3-D Cosmic Image of Earth by Russian Electro-L Released [PHOTOS] – The Russians have proved that space lovers and astronauts do not need to depend on Nasa as the only source for high-definition imagery of space and earth. The Russian Earth Observation Centre, NTs OMZ has released an ultra-high resolution of earth with the help of their new geostationary satellite, Electro-L. [ibtimes]

Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back To Life – Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of “ghoulish” photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea pigs to describe the emotion displayed in each photo. [wired]

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Bailey Schneider Show – Lonehill Estate have just returned from LA and Bailey will be catching up with them to find out how their music was received in Hollywood and whats next for the band. [baileyschneider]

Mommy matters with Jess – “Are you mom enough?” asks Time Magazine’s cover, which features Los Angeles mom Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her almost 4-year-old son… Jess chats about this hot topic this week with our panel of mommy bloggers: Kerry Glaser from My Baby Box, Tanya Kovarsky from Rattle and Mum and Claire Minnaar from Momtrepeneur. [mommymatters]

FRESH PODCASTS

Goldfish With Their New Single On The Premier Show – Goldfish joined Seth and Bruce from The Premier Show to chat about their new single, “Washing Over Me”. The track is a collaboration between Goldfish and Steve Sparrow from Morning Parade, an up and coming UK rock band. [podcast]