BW Internet Editor Heather Green talks to Eric Alterman, the founder and chairman of KickApps, who explains how the startup helps major media companies and indie bloggers alike create communities around their work

Augmented reality is a technology that uses location data from your phone's GPS receiver and orientation information from its compass to superimpose data on a screen image generated by the phone camera. It sounds great in theory, but doesn't work very well in reality. A major reason appears to be that the data the phone supplies just are not accurate enough

Jason Bloomberg, a senior analyst and principal at consulting firm ZapThink, talks about how companies can take advantage of enterprise mashups -- Web applications that combine content from two or more online sources

In his last piece for BusinessWeek, Tech and You columnist Steve Wildstrom talks with technology editor Peter Elstrom about Intel's digital reader for the visually impaired and its plans for health products