Exhibit 3: Wooed by a half-dozen VCs, David Secunda, chief executive of an adventure-gear e-commerce site, picked CMGI's AtVentures in Menlo Park, Calif.

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It's time to gear up with the right tech and turn your smartphone, e-reader or tablet computer into the universal library it was destined to be.

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Companies have to choose between tape storage for archiving, cheap disk storage for everyday nonessential data like backups and video archives, better gear and software for the more important records such as essential e-mails and tax returns and very pricey faultless storage (with outages measured in seconds per year) for online transactions and stock exchanges.

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