AN IPHONE CASE YOU CAN EAT!

 

Yes, critics of the sometimes disposable nature of today's tech world, it's come to this. You can now eat your iPhone case. The price of a crunchy treat that also somewhat protects your precious phone, that is only $81. It is made from brown rice and salt, the Survival Senbei Rice Cracker iPhone 5 Case" is literally part food, part phone case ... and great in an emergency when you are desperate for a snack."

 

 

      iTunes11 finally available for download

Apple was originally supposed to release iTunes 11 -- a total revamp of the longstanding music and apps manager -- in October. The launch was then delayed because of "engineering difficulties."

Reports surfaced earlier this week that Apple would release iTunes 11 within its promised November timeframe. Since its debut in 2001, iTunes has morphed from a standard music player into something larger and more complex. It's no longer just a music player -- it's also an App store, a music and movies store and a way to manage iPod, iPhone and iPad devices.

In other words, iTunes has become a bloated, slow, unwieldy mess.

Whether or not iTunes 11 can solve all these problems is unclear. We'll report back later with a full hands-on review.

 

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   How AT&T got service back after Sandy

The task was unlike any AT&T's workers had seen before. Restoring service to a critical cell site on top of a 22-story building with no power in a flood zone presented a big problem: Building codes prevented on-site generators from being installed on the roof, and there was no hope of getting power restored anytime soon.

But 2 Wall Street in New York's financial district, whose cell site serves the New York Stock Exchange, needed to be brought back online quickly after Superstorm Sandy knocked out power everywhere in Manhattan below 39th Street.

"We could prepare for almost every possible situation, but this was unique," said Tom DeVito, AT&T's general manager of the New York and New Jersey region.

Microsoft is risking an $18 billion empire on Windows 8

 Windows has been Microsoft's most reliable cash cow for nearly three decades. The software giant is gambling all of that success on what it deems to be the company's future: a radically redesigned Windows 8.

Windows is the linchpin of Microsoft's empire. Without a significant design overhaul since 1995, the operating system has been essentially printing money for Microsoft. Last year, Windows brought in more than $18 billion in sales and $11.5 billion in profit. On its own, Windows would be big enough to place among the largest 150 U.S. companies by revenue, and its 62% profit margin would rank among the highest in the world.

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    AOL unveils Alto, an email service that

syncs 5 accounts                        

Alto is a new web-based email service that syncs up to five email accounts and you don't even need an AOL address to use it. It's is made to not have your inbox get so full. No more of those seemingly endless email threads, daily deal notifications and newsletter subscriptions most of us have had for a long time.

Investigators find cracks in second Dreamliner engine

Just two months after an engine cracked and failed during test aboard a Boeing 787, federal plane inspectors have found a second engine problem on a different Dreamliner, the National Transportation Safety Board announced that he NTSB should find out the problem as a cracked fan midshaft on a Dreamliner General Electric GEnx-1B turbofan engine, the group posted on its website Thursday. The 787 had not yet flown when investigators identified the engine problem.

Inspectors uncovered the cracked second engine during an inspection of all in-service engines of that type, the NTSB said. The statement included no further details of the discovery. The NTSB, which investigates all U.S. civil aviation accidents, said its investigation of the engine troubles is continuing.