A self destruction phone, top secret, is it well BOEING made it

Boeing has customised the Black with its own suite of security apps

A smartphone designed for handling top secret communications has been developed by Boeing.

If the phone is tampered with, it automatically deletes any data and renders itself inoperable.

Better known for its aeroplanes, the firm said it needed to help organisations get "trusted access to data to accomplish their missions".

The device, named Black, joins a growing range of high-security smartphones entering the market.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a similarly-titled Blackphone was announced, aimed more at businesses and consumers worried about private data.

Boeing already provides secure communications for US government officials - including the president.

Expandable

Boeing's Black is not intended for mainstream use - and does not yet have a price or release date.

The device took 36 months to produce, the company said, and has drawn on expertise from recent acquisitions of companies specialising in mobile technologies.

Product specifications posted on Boeing's website state that the device contains two SIM cards to allow switching between government and commercial networks.

The smartphone runs a heavily-customised version of Google's Android operating system and Boeing has added its own branded security apps.

But where Black goes beyond typical mobile security is in physical enhancements to the hardware itself.

"There are no serviceable parts on Boeing's Black phone and any attempted servicing or replacing of parts would destroy the product," the company explained in documents sent to the Federal Communications Commission.

"The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with [extremely strong glue] epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper-proof covering to identify attempted disassembly.

"Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable."

Furthermore, the phone's hardware can be expanded to include biometric sensors, satellite receivers or solar panels.

WeLl your wish was your command, 'n' Zuckerberg did that for you for 16bn

Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp for $16bn (£9.6bn), with an additional $3bn given to WhatsApp's founders and employees.

It is the social networking giant's biggest acquisition to date.

WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is popular with people looking to avoid text messaging charges.

In a statement, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described WhatsApp's services as "incredibly valuable".

WhatsApp allows users to send messages over internet connections, avoiding text messaging fees. The company claims it is currently registering one million new users a day.

Shares fall

On a conference call to discuss the deal, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum says he plans to operate the firm "independently and autonomously". He will also become a member of Facebook's board of directors.

WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly active users

"We're excited and honoured to partner with Mark and Facebook as we continue to bring our product to more people around the world," Mr Koum said in a statement.

Mr Zuckerberg said the prospect of a deal was first floated just 11 days ago.

The Facebook founder said he believed WhatsApp was on track to have a billion users, but insisted he had no plans to place advertising on WhatsApp's interface, saying he did not think ads were the best way to make money from messaging systems.

Shares in Facebook dropped 5% in after hours trading before recovering slightly.

Prior to this acquisition, Facebook's biggest buy had been Instagram for $1bn in 2012.

It had also reportedly offered $3bn to acquire photo messaging service Snapchat.

Third generation apple devices are nothing to samsung new retina tech in the display world?

Apple might have started the smartphone display resolution war when it debuted the iPhone 4 back in 2010, but the company really hasn't fired any new shots since then. Of course, Apple did carry the battle over to tablets with the third-generation iPad and to laptops with the Retina MacBook, but the Retina display on Apple's seventh-generation iPhone 5s features the same pixel density as it did on the fourth-generation iPhone 4. Meanwhile, Androidsmartphone makers have managed to continually pack more and more pixels into their panels, and Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S5smartphone will apparently be the king of them all when it debuts next week.

Rumors have gone back and forth for months regarding whether or not Samsung's next-generation flagshipsmartphone will feature a new display with even better resolution than the full HD 1080p Galaxy S4 screen. According to a new leak, the Galaxy S5 will indeed sport a brand new display with 2K resolution.

A screenshot posted Sunday by SamsungGalaxyS5Abonnement.com was supposedly captured on a Galaxy S5, and it shows several details about the phone's specs. Most interestingly, the Galaxy S5 display is listed as measuring 5.25 inches diagonally, and it apparently packs 1,440 x 2,560 pixels and an insane pixel density of 560 ppi.

For comparison, the iPhone 5s's Retina display features a pixel density of 326 ppi, though it remains to be seen how the significant difference on paper will translate in the real world.

Other purported Galaxy S5 specs include a 2.5GHz quad-core processor or an 8-core Exynos chipset depending on the model, a 20-megapixel primary camera, a 2-megapixel rear camera, 3GB of LPDDR3 RAM, a huge 3,000 mAh battery, an integrated infrared blaster, support for 4G LTE data speeds of up to 150Mbps, and Android 4.4 KitKat.

Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S5 on Monday during a press conference ahead of the annualMobile World Congress trade show.

Well Well Well as it was seen , it's only going to be about PS4 n xBox one, n the rest

Sony announced on Tuesday that the PlayStation 4 had stampeded through its goal for thefiscal year to hit 5.3 million sales since launch. The scales have tipped back and forth betweenSony's new console and the Xbox One for the past few months, but now that Sony is beginning to secure a lead, developers are picking sides. According to a poll conducted by theGame Developers Conference, nearly 20% of developers are hoping to release their upcoming games on the PS4, while just under 17% chose the Xbox One.

Analysts concur that the PS4 will continue to lead the home console race in 2014, but this mass approval from the development community is even more hard evidence that favor is swaying Sony's direction.

Although Microsoft might be disappointed that developers are as intent on having their games released on the Xbox One, the situation isn't nearly as dire as Nintendo's. While the PS4 and Xbox One are both sitting above 16% in the poll, the Wii U barely irked out an appearance with just 4.4% of developer interest. In fact, more developers are looking to release their games on the PS3 and Xbox 360 respectively than on the Wii U. Check out the full chart below.

This year at MWC it's going to be all about BLACKBERRY 'n' FOXCONN

This year's Mobile World Congress looks like it's going to be jam-packed with intriguing new devices headlined by Samsung's Galaxy S5,Sony's Xperia Z2, BlackBerry's first Foxconn-made phones and Nokia's first-ever Androidhandset. There is one major absence from this year's MWC that is rather surprising, however:Windows Phone.

Re/code's sources say that there won't be any new Windows Phones launched at MWC next week and that Microsoft will only talk in “broad strokes” about what it has planned for futureWindows Phone releases during its official press event. Microsoft is apparently saving its Windows Phonebullets for its Build developer conference in April when it will likely unveil its new Windows Phone 8.1 platform.

Even so, Re/code writes that the lack of any new devices at MWC is potentially problematic for Microsoftsince MWC is typically where lesser-known players show off upcoming handsets that will be targeted atemerging markets. Vendors such as Huawei and ZTE all have a significant presence in China, for instance, and they're all expected to show off Android phones. Even Nokia, which Microsoft is in the process of buying, will show off an Android phone at MWC instead of a new Windows Phone.

While 2014 still may very well be Windows Phone's breakout year, the platform's momentum seems to have stalled a bit in the early going this year.