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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- April 17, 2014

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Headline Scan
E-Book Self-Publishing: Brave New Words
Chinese Company Creates 3D-Printed Houses
Smartphone Kill Switch Gets Breath of Life
Google Mounts $100K Project Ara Dev Challenge

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Today's Story Highlights

E-Book Self-Publishing: Brave New Words
Mark and Lesleyann Coker wrote a novel, Boob Tube , based on her
experiences as a soap opera reporter. They found an agent, who shopped
it around to traditional publishers to no avail. Rather than give up,
however, they decided to start their own e-book publishing company,
Smashwords. "That experience really opened my eyes to how publishing
works," said Mark Coker.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80312.html

Chinese Company Creates 3D-Printed Houses
Shanghai WinSun Decoration Design Engineering, a Shanghai-based company,
has created 10 3D-printed houses. Each house reportedly cost less than
$5,000 and took less than 24 hours to construct. The printer used to
create the homes was about 100 feet long, 33 feet wide and more than 20
feet tall. The "ink" was made from high-grade cement and glass fiber.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80314.html

Smartphone Kill Switch Gets Breath of Life
CTIA and major mobile manufacturers, providers and operating system
makers have entered a voluntary agreement to include antitheft measures
in smartphones. The security and safety of mobile users is the top
priority for the industry, according to CTIA, and the agreement is
intended to protect consumers from smartphone theft while providing
companies' with the ability to innovate.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80310.html

Google Mounts $100K Project Ara Dev Challenge
Google announced a $100,000 developers' challenge prize on Wednesday,
the second day of its Project Ara modular phone developers' conference.
The top two runners-up will get all-expenses paid trips for two or three
people to the next Ara devcon -- there will be a few more held this year
-- and guaranteed hardware for the project, said Project Ara lead Paul
Eremenko.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80309.html

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