"Bankers", "the rich" and "the 1%" have become part of the lexicon of a maelstrom of protest. But what do the terms really mean? A wave of protests across the world and of more measured anger expressed in newspaper letters pages and on social networking sites have thrown up a new lexicon of resentment of the wealthy and the powerful. But how did all these newly popular terms come to be used as they are? "Th ...

I've had the opportunity to work with hundreds, maybe thousands of brilliant people over a 30-year career in high-tech. Unfortunately, that's not really saying much, since just about any CEO, executive, or entrepreneur you're likely to come across has the smarts to do the job. When it comes to management ability and leadership qualities, however, bosses tend to follow a pretty standard bell shaped curve: co ...

From the first time you step into Eastern Congo, you find yourself surrounded by the exotic and extraordinary, be it flora and fauna or the just plain incongruous -- the severed wing of a Russian aircraft stored on the side of the road, or a boy with a gun. The place is pulsating with the heat and energy of a population of people fighting to survive just one more day. But the violence here is as intense as ...

Government officials looking into recent activity from LulzSec and Anonymous, be very afraid–the latter hacktivist group has posted the personal address and phone number of a U.S. Department of Justice investigator online along with 38,000 emails from his Gmail account, in retaliation for government investigations into their activities as well as the government’s response to the Occupy Wall Street movement. ...

Facebook is working with HTC to develop a phone that has a much deeper integration with the social network than any previous “Facebook phone.” That’s according to a report from All Things D, which says the phone is probably 12 to 18 months away from hitting store shelves. Codenamed “Buffy” after the vampire slayer of the same name, the phone will run a modified version of Google’s Android, but Facebook is r ...

This week the Pope declared war on parents naming babies after celebrities, fruit or popular sports cars. In an address to parents, the ever-progressive pontiff pleaded with worshipers to 'give your children names that are in the Christian calendar'. So Apple, Brooklyn and Ferrari are out, Francisco and Giulia are in. But Benedict's not the only authority figure to stamp down on one of the sillier by-produc ...

Neutrinos travel through 700km of rock before reaching Gran Sasso's underground laboratories Subatomic particles called neutrinos cannot move faster than the speed of light, according to a new report. The findings challenge a result reported in September that, if true, would undermine a century of physics. The team at the INFN-Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy said they had measured faster-than-light speeds in ...

1.  Carlos Slim Helu  : $53.5 billion, Telecom, Mexico Telecom tycoon who pounced on privatization of Mexico’s national telephone company in the 1990s becomes world’s richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. Net worth up $18.5 billion in a year. Recently received regulatory approval to merge his fixed-line assets into American Movil, Latin America’s biggest mobile phone company. ...