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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- January 15, 2014

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Tech and the Art of Text
What's Up With Tizen?
Ready, Set, Cyberattack!
AMD Unleashes Kaveri APUs
Accenture Tapped to Doctor HealthCare.gov

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Tech and the Art of Text
In 1999, Chris Baty was looking for inspiration to write a novel. He got
together with some friends in coffee shops and started writing, with
rewards of coffee for those who reached their word counts. It was the
birth of National Novel Writing Month, which the following year would
become NaNoWriMo, a Web-based community of writers who commit to writing
a 50,000-word novel in 30 days.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79787.html

What's Up With Tizen?
Consumers might soon have access to cheaper, more talented smartphones
that could challenge the market dominance of Android and iOS. At least
that is the promise from the Tizen Association. The growing group of
phone makers and application developers recently launched a partner
program with 36 companies from all segments of the mobile and connected
device ecosystems.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79786.html

Ready, Set, Cyberattack!
Advanced persistent threats and stealth malware attacks have been making
the rounds for years. Now, U-M researchers Robert Axelrod and Rumen
Iliev have created a model that, in essence, lays out the best time for
nation-states to launch cyberattacks. The model takes into account the
stealth and persistence of a cyber-resource -- a means to exploit a
vulnerability in a target's computer system.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79792.html

AMD Unleashes Kaveri APUs
AMD is attempting to take computing to a new level with the launch of
its 2014 AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units. The A-Series APUs
include AMD's Radeon R7 graphics technology and are codenamed "Kaveri."
The chips mark the first time that AMD has used the Heterogeneous System
Architecture in an APU -- a way to let the chip evenly allocate and give
access to certain resources.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79788.html

Accenture Tapped to Doctor HealthCare.gov
The raft of problems connected to the launch of HealthCare.gov appears
to have sunk the fortunes of the private contractor paid for running the
site. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, charged with
overseeing the health insurance marketplace, has awarded Accenture
Federal Services a one-year contract for $45 million to implement
technical improvements to the site.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79783.html

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