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on today's show Mobile World Congress the black phone Elop heading up xbox twitch on xbox one and candy gets crushed Buffalo bulletin time hello internet and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin where we recap stories from our site TechnoBuffalo calm every wednesday and friday for interested in reading more about any story on the show check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggle on I'm Ashley sceva Harry top stories Mobile World Congress kicked off earlier this week in Barcelona Spain and we've got a ton of coverage Nokia officially unveiled their lineup of Android phones samsung unpacked the much-hyped galaxy s5 the gear to the gear 2 neo and gear fit blackberry announced the Q 20 and z3 Sony's Xperia line expanded with Z 2 m 2 + z2 tablet Intel unveiled a new 64-bit Atom processor and that does not even begin to cover it it's been a huge conference thus far with a lots more to come this week we've got both written and video hands-on coverage of a lot of these new devices and you can keep tabs on what's happening at mwc all week on our site last month silent circle and geeksphone teamed up to reveal the black phone and android handset they claimed would offer the most secure and private way to communicate on a smartphone this week they announced black phone would be available for pre-order starting at six hundred and twenty nine dollars off contract the phone offers a modified private OS that includes specialized apps from silent circle now some of those apps are actually already available for Android and iOS but a few others are exclusive to the device the device itself won't ship until April but you know the NSA probably already knows you're thinking about ordering one over in gaming some major shifts happening for xbox microsoft announced early this week that stephen elop former head of nokia would be replacing Julie larson-green as the head of devices and Studios division at the company that puts him in charge of products like Microsoft Surface and Xbox which is a little unnerving considering we heard rumors he would kill off Bing and sell off Xbox if he ever became CEO of Microsoft fortunately for gamers that CEO gig went to Sachin Adele but who knows if Elop might ever convince him of spinning off or selling xbox also happening in Xbox land twitch announced this week full integration would finally happen on the Xbox one starting March 11th if that date sounds familiar it's because that's the very same convenient day titanfall drops for Xbox one gamers everywhere will be able to tell their connects Xbox broadcast and twitch will on streaming with a picture-in-picture inclusion of the broadcaster it took a little longer than the playstation 4 integration mostly because Sony built the twitch app for ps4 butt twitch built their own software for the Xbox one come March 11th it'll be raining Titans all over twitch lastly our wildcard story this week is a big smug deal with it to king.com who recently filed a trademark for the word candy they also later wanted to go after the word saga but it looks like some good old-fashioned internet rage drowned King and wave after wave of bad reviews and bad press and King officially filed to abandon their trademark application for the word candy this week proving once again that hell hath no fury like an Internet scorned hopefully they'll also abandon their quest to trademark saga but overall a candy crushing victory for the denizens of the web that's 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