Prototype: Kicking Reality Up a Notch
         

Augmented reality — in which the real world is overlaid with virtual information — is now also making its way to smartphones, thanks to advances in both hardware and software.



         

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How to Start a Company (and Kiss Like Angelina)
         

Success making how-to videos takes more than a bunch of short clips. On the Internet, part of the trick is having a distinct personality.



         

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Bits: Feeling Tweety in 'Web Site Story'
         

"West Side Story" meets Twitter in a parody video from CollegeHumor.com.



         

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Bits: Google’s Expertise in Online Backups
         

The online data backup market remains in need of some serious engineering muscle -- and Google has plenty of that.



         

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Bits: For ManiaTV, a Second Attempt to Be the Next Viacom
         

ManiaTV, a site that featured live celebrity video on the Web, has been bought back by its founder after its venture capitalists shut the site down.



         

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EBay Denies Partnership With G.M.
         

G.M. said it was forging a new partnership with eBay to sell new cars. But the auction site said that no deal had been reached.



         

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Bits: New York Attorney General Sues Tagged.com
         

New York's attorney general alleges that Tagged, a social networking site, been deceptively trying to get users to sign up by tapping into the address books of their friends.



         

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Bits: A Blog's Story Gets a Tweak in 'Julie & Julia'
         

In the first Hollywood film to spring from a real-life blog, the heroine uses a semi-fictionalized blogging service called [email protected]. Why didn't Sony just depict the real thing?



         

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European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright
         

The publishers said widespread use of their work by online news aggregators and other Web sites was undermining efforts to develop an online business model.



         

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Sprint Taps Ericsson to Run Its Network
         

Sprint Nextel announced that it would transfer operation of its networks to Ericsson in order to cut spending and stem continued declines in subscribers to its cellphone services.



         

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EMC Wins Data Domain With a $2.4 Billion Offer
         

NetApp loses a bidding war to gain technology called data deduplication, which reduces the need for corporate computer storage.



         

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Best Buy and TiVo Are Forming an Alliance
         

The electronics retailer will advertise TiVo products, and TiVo will return the favor on its subscribers’ televisions.



         

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Cyberattacks Jam Government and Commercial Web Sites in U.S. and South Korea
         

South Korea’s spy service has reportedly implicated North Korean groups in the attacks on government agencies.



         

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State of the Art: Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
         

Microsoft’s rechristened search engine, Bing, makes a concerted effort to organize search results in more helpful ways than Google, and often succeeds.



         

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