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on today's show samsung sends out unpacked invites Sprint's quarterly results are a mixed bag to Microsoft shareholders want to kill off the Xbox the playstation vita slim heads to the States and North Korea's operating system looks really familiar it's buffalo bulletin time hello internet and welcome to the buffalo bulletin where we recap stories from our site technobuffalo calm every tuesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story on the show check the description down below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm nationally sceva Harry top stories samsung announced their unpacked event early last week and today they posted a teaser image for the event giving us some hints as to what we can expect on the twenty-fourth of this month a three-by-three grid of flat colorful icons with labels like speed fun and style is placed next to an unpacked logo with a to the fifth power on it of course we're assuming this all points to the Samsung Galaxy s5 which will lightly be revealed at the event in Barcelona but they may also point to a new look and feel for TouchWiz specifically and new features we've not yet seen before I guess we'll have to see in less than two weeks sprint posted their fourth quarter 2013 earnings report today with a mix of good and bad news they noted a net loss of 1 billion dollars during the quarter but it's actually an improvement over the 1.3 billion they lost during the same quarter a year ago their wireless revenue increased for the 15th consecutive quarter which is good and sprint also said it now has a record number of customers with 50 3.9 million subscribers at the end of 2013 we'll have to wait and see if t-mobile's uncarrier plan puts a dent in those numbers but for now Sprint's trucking along over in gaming now that Satya Nadella has assumed the CEO position at microsoft the Washington Post is reporting that a pair of influential shareholders believe that the future of Microsoft is solely an enterprise and that would mean killing off non-essential product lines specifically Bing the surface and the Xbox don't freak out though because your Xbox ones and 360s are safe as Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are still advising nadella and it's unlikely a company man like nadella would deviate so far from what Ballmer Engates bill over the past 20-plus years also in gaming Sony made a lot of us gamers happy after announcing the playstation vita slim which is currently available in japan would be coming to the states in addition to the new model hitting retail the PS vita slim will be bundled with borderlands 2 and six packs of dlc this vita is fifteen percent later and twenty percent slimmer than the original vita has an improved battery life and exchanges the original vitas oled screen with a five inch LCD touchscreen there's no release date set yet for the vita but the borderlands 2 bundle will cost you 100 99 bucks when it hits retail lastly our wild card story for today is kind of unusual north Korea has a homegrown operating system they call red star OS a few years ago version 2 of that operating system looked an awful lot like Windows 7 now though we're being traded to new screenshots of version 3 and it's obvious they've taken some cues this time around from Apple in fact it's pretty much a carbon copy of OS 10 save for the red star replacing the apple logo in the upper left hand corner then again North Korea is suspected of creating super dollars or ultra high-quality counterfeit one hundred dollar bills so I guess this is kind of par for the course unless the buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show a thumbs up would be super awesome of you and if you want more great technobuffalo video content you can subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time