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on today's show microsoft announces a new CEO the FCC chairman talks a Sprint t-mobile merger Ubisoft has trademark problems some good news and bad news from disney interactive and wikipedias newest archive special bulletin time hello internet and welcome to the buffalo bolton where we recap stories from our site technobuffalo calm every tuesday and friday for justin i'm reading more about any story we talked about on the show check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm ashley Esqueda Harry top stories it's official microsoft has announced their new CEO earlier this morning naming cloud and enterprise executive satya nadella as the man who will lead microsoft for the foreseeable future now former CEO Steve Ballmer posted a video to Microsoft's youtube channel praising nadella and so did Microsoft founder Bill Gates nadella addressed Microsoft employees in an email saying quote our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud first role we'll see what nadella has in store for redmond but with 22 years experience at Microsoft they're in pretty capable hands we heard a while back sprint was considering a possible merger with t-mobile and now we're hearing the thoughts of FCC Chairman Tom wheeler about that deal last week Sprint's leadership met with the Justice Department to discuss the possibility and was met with a skeptical response and it seems wheeler agrees with that sentiment as an FCC official told Reuters that wheeler admitted being quote highly skeptical on quote of the bid for now it looks like we probably won't see an official merger especially considering att's failed bid for tmobile back in 2011 over in gaming some drama unfolded for Ubisoft this week yesterday a NeoGAF forum member noticed Ubisoft filed for an express abandonment of the watchdog's trade market had with the US Patent and Trademark Office leading to some crazy and wild speculation as to why Ubisoft would jettison the game's name so swiftly well it appears Ubisoft didn't actually file for that abandonment and the process was completed fraudulently the company took to the air at this morning to assure fans the game was being polished as we speak and that they'd already filed to reverse the abandonment also in gaming some good and bad news from Disney Interactive an anonymous source inside the studio says both Star Wars and Marvel will be joining Disney infinity as future expansions to the game there's no word though on potential characters or settings but we kind of expected this as Disney now owns bull studios unfortunately the same on anonymous source said hundreds of people at Disney Interactive are about to be laid off due to financial cutbacks hopefully it won't be too many people though and the folks laid off will find something new quickly our world card story today is kind of fun it appears Wikipedia is creating a database of some of the most famous voices in the world wikipedia editor Andy Mabbutt is spearheading the project and it's open to anybody with their own Wikipedia page they're simple recordings oftentimes just the subject introducing themselves but it's open to every language and some of the recordings are from places like the BBC's audio archives it's kind of nice to see somebody recognizing audio as needing to be catalogued so check out the project if you have a chance 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 subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time