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Madonna is top-earning celebrity

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Editors at Forbes magazine estimate the pop superstar earned the majority of her $125 million fortune, between June 2012 and June 2013, from her MDNA tour, strong merchandise sales, a clothing line, fragrance and investments in companies like Vita Coco, even though her last album pretty much flopped.
The earnings are the most the Material Girl has ever made in one year.
Director Steven Spielberg comes in second with $100 million in earnings, while Simon Cowell, author E.L. James and Howard Stern round out the top five.
Others included on the rich list are author James Patterson, TV personality Glenn Beck, moviemaker Michael Bay, Hollywood mogul Jerry Bruckheimer and Lady Gaga.
iPhone 6 concept (black) by Arthur Reis iPhone renders are a dime a dozen, but for once we have been graced with a concept for Apple’s next flagship phone that seems very much a possibility.
Created by Arthur Reis, a budding designer who aspires to join the ranks of Jony Ive and Shin Nishibori someday, 3D renderings of the iPhone 6 imagine a handset that looks largely identical to iPhone 5 (think: anodised aluminium casing with chamfered edges), but an impressive 20 per cent slimmer at just 6.1mm thick.
The handset also features a 12-megapixel camera with an ‘iSight Pro’ sensor boasting an f/1.8 aperture and a ‘Magic TrackPad’ that replaces the physical home button with a touch-sensitive equivalent.
As far as we’re concerned, this is one of the best iPhone concepts we’ve seen, principally because it doesn’t go crazy on novel or unrealistic features as most concepts do.
Apple is always trying to make its handsets slimmer, so a more slender iPhone is within the realms of possibility. And with Samsung upping the ante with a 13-megapixel camera on the freshly launched Galaxy S4, we can certainly expect the iPhone 6 to match its competition in the imaging stakes.

Kenya: Namibian Dillish Wins BBA - the Chase

NAMIBIA'S Dillish Matthews won the eighth season of the television reality show Big Brother Africa "The Chase" on Sunday night.
After spending 91 days in Biggie's house, the charming lady who was labelled an underdog and a spoilt princess, has, however, made history. Dillish did her best to stay out of trouble throughout her time in the house.
The Nambian beauty beat four other finalists - Elikem, Cleo, Melvin and Beverly - to win the US$300,000 (Sh26.1 million) grand prize. The live finale also saw exciting performances from Ice Prince, Keko, R2Bees and DJ Ganyani.
Windhoek-born Dillish is a third year Psychology student with a passion for seafood. She describes herself as "caring, fun, troublesome, loving and adventurous".
Dillish says her best quality is the fact that she's "very real and straightforward". She values caring and considerate people and dislikes those who are selfish and lazy.

Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Unveiled Next Week

The smartwatch race begins next week. After months of leaks and speculation, Samsung has confirmed to the Korea Times that it plans to announce its Galaxy Gear smartwatch at an event at the annual IFA technology tradeshow in Berlin on Sept. 4.
In the same conversation with the Korea Times, Lee Young-hee, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile business, confirmed that the Galaxy Note III, Samsung's pen-equipped, big-screen phone whose details have been teased in media invitations, would also be announced at the event.
But after consistent speculation that Apple and Google have been working on competing smartwatches, the big focus is on Samsung's watch.
"The Gear won't have a flexible display. The new device will enhance and enrich the current smart mobile experience in many ways," Lee told the Korea Times. "It will lead a new trend in smart mobile communications. We are confident that the Gear will add meaningful momentum to the mobile industry."
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Lee emphasized that it will have a "nonflexible" display, despite the company's work on creating flexible or bendable screens and the images filed along with Samsung's "Galaxy Gear" trademark and patents.
Similar to the other tablets and phones in Samsung's Galaxy line, the watch will be powered by Google's Android operating system.
Samsung did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for more details on the watch and U.S. availability. As with previous announcements at this particular European tradeshow, the products tend to go to other countries first.
Apple, Google and Microsoft have all been rumored to be working on their own smartwatches as well. Apple filed for a trademark on the term "iWatch" in July, and has been hiring people from the fashion industry, presumably to work on the wearable product.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook also said that the wrist was an area of interest for the company when thinking about wearable devices. Google has also been said to be working on its own watch powered by Android.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger hit by more injury worries

Lukas Podolski looks set for a spell on the sidelines
Lukas Podolski looks set for a spell on the sidelines
Arsene Wenger's need to strengthen his Arsenal squad further was emphasised once more as injuries overshadowed progression to the Champions League group stages for a 16th successive season.
Lukas Podolski will miss Sunday's North London derby with Tottenham and faces three weeks out after suffering a hamstring injury in Tuesday night's 2-0 defeat of Fenerbahce which completed a 5-0 aggregate triumph and saw the Gunners advance to Thursday's draw.
Aaron Ramsey scored twice but finished the match on the bench with a groin problem after Arsenal had used all three substitutes, while fellow midfielder Jack Wilshere's fragile ankle was a cause for concern after he was the victim of some meaty tackles.
"We paid a heavy price on the injury front because we lost Podolski," said Wenger, who had wanted to haul Wilshere off before the end for his own protection, but the England midfielder refused.
"Podolski's definitely out for 21 days. I don't know how bad Ramsey is. I don't know how Wilshere responds. We have to check that (on Wednesday) morning.
"Jack should be all right for Sunday. I'm hopeful on Aaron as well.
"I took him off with three or four minutes to go, but I don't know how bad it is. He wanted to stay on."
With injuries already to Mikel Arteta and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, the further fitness concerns throw more scrutiny on Wenger's bid to add to his squad in the final days of the transfer window.
There were reports that Juan Mata Senior, father and agent of the Chelsea playmaker, was at the Emirates Stadium for the match.
Following the Spain playmaker's omission from the Chelsea starting line-up at Manchester United on Monday night, rumours circulated he was available for transfer.
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho denied those suggestions and Wenger believes recruiting the World Cup winner would be a long shot.
"I like him," said Wenger, who was beaten to the former Valencia playmaker's signature by Chelsea two years' ago.
"I watched the game last night and I've heard, like you, Juan Mata could be on the market.
"There is anyway in England a reluctance to sell to each other."
In recent days, Wenger has preferred to focus on the players already at his disposal.

SWIFT Networks: 500 volunteers to test drive new LTE network

 
         The SWIFT Networks, a leading provider of high speed broadband internet and data services to enterprise and consumer customers in Nigeria, has announced that 500 volunteers will test-drive its brand new Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in preparation for its launch in Lagos, in the first instance.
SWIFT has built the LTE network on the spectrum resources of the Direct On PC which it acquired recently, enabling it to overlay the ultra-fast LTE network over its current 4G WIMAX network to offer higher access speed to its current and future customers.
 according to the editor "Wireless spectrum is a finite resource and LTE uses it more efficiently than other technologies, creating more space to carry data traffic and services and to deliver a better network experience. It delivers at least 10 times faster download speed than 3G and 4 times that of WIMAX 4G networks".
“This will be Nigeria’s fastest and most reliable 4G LTE network; we will not rush this launch and will take every care to ensure that we get it right the first time. Getting the most aggressive users from our current customer base to test-drive it will enable us to debug and fine-tune it to meet the exerting demands of our target customer base,” said Chukwuma Okoye, the chief operating officer of SWIFT.
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