Thomas Frey: When I was 19 years old I fell victim to one of the “submit-your-invention-and-we’ll-make-you-rich” scams advertised in many of the magazines back then. The person I talked to on the telephone had fallen in love with my invention and told me in no uncertain terms that I was going to become very [...]

Welcome to 2005, the year the high-tech industry does…something. Truth is, you won’t find an awful lot of agreement on how things will turn out for tech this year.

Two upstart companies — Transgenic Pets and Allerca — are attempting to apply to cats the same basic methods of genetic manipulation that make farm animals and crops heartier.