If your mother always warned you to wrap up warm to avoid catching a cold, it appears she may have been right all along.

Dave Taylor:
I just can’t say enough good about Larry Nelson’s great idea spun out of the recent Colorado Tech Week for an “Extreme Makeover for a High-Tech Business”. Inspired by the spate of reality shows that people seem to enjoy so much, w3w3.com Media Network will choose a Colorado-based high-tech company and pour […]

French researchers say we pick certain brand names for an entirely narcissistic reason: they contain letters of the alphabet that are in our own name.

Scientists in Canada and China are studying range effect, to better understand what consumers do when faced with a range of price and quality options.

Several state transportation agencies, including those in Maryland and Virginia, are starting to test technology that allows them to monitor traffic by tracking cellphone signals and mapping them against road grids.

Brad Feld: Yesterday, I was a judge at the DaVinci Institute’s A Night with the Visionaries. I thought it was going to be a strange way to spend a Friday evening, but I ended up having a great time and being completely blown away by the inventions and inventors that were competing.

Jim Carroll:
Quick question: What’s the average number of fridges per 100 people in China today?

If you guessed 82, you’re right.

Researchers and others say corporate and public nurturing of inventors and research is faltering and the U.S. patent edge may begin to fade.