BBM for Android leaks; Doesn't work anyway

 The buzz this morning is all about the leaked BBM for Android APK that turned up in the CrackBerry forums . It offered a small glimmer of hope for some Android users to get in early on the BBM fun, but alas, it's not working.

It appears that the service is still locked down on Android unless you're on "the list", so if you don't have a whitelisted BBID (and we're pretty sure you don't) then you'll get stuck on the setup screen and that will be the end of it. 

Statement from BlackBerry:

Yahoo unveils new purple logo as part of internet company's makeover under CEO Marissa Mayer .

Yahoo has adopted a new logo for the first time since shortly after the Internet company's founding 18 years ago.

The redesigned look unveiled early this morning is part of a makeover that Yahoo has been undergoing since the Sunnyvale, California, company hired Google executive Marissa Mayer to become CEO 14 months ago.

She has already spruced up Yahoo's front page, email and Flickr photo-sharing service, as well as engineering a series of acquisitions aimed at attracting more traffic on mobile devices.

The new Yahoo logo and (inset) the old one which has now disappeared

The shopping spree has been highlighted by Yahoo's $1.1billion (£720million) purchase of Tumblr, an Internet blogging service where the company rolled out its new logo.

The logo was shown in purple spelling out the word Yahoo!, with no letters touching and ending with an exclamation point.

 

Android KitKat unveiled in Google surprise move

Nestle plans to sell more than 50 million chocolate
 bars featuring the Android mascot

 The decision to brand the software with the name of Nestle's chocolate bar is likely to be seen as a marketing coup for the Swiss food and beverage maker.Google is calling the next version of its mobile operating system Android KitKat.
The news comes as a surprise as the firm had previously indicated version 4.4 of the OS would be Key Lime Pie.
However, Google told the BBC that it had come up with the idea and that neither side was paying the other.
"This is not a money-changing-hands kind of deal," John Lagerling, director of Android global partnerships, told the BBC.
Instead, he said, the idea was to do something "fun and unexpected".
However, one branding expert warned there were potential pitfalls to such a deal.
"If your brand is hooked up with another, you inevitably become associated with that other brand, for good or ill," said Simon Myers, a partner at the consultancy Prophet.

Microsoft Wants To Outdo Google And Apple, Buying Nokia Helps With Neither

So the deal that should have been done 2 years ago is at lastcompleted: Microsoft MSFT -6.17%is buying most of Nokia NOK +29.74% to take control of itssmartphone destiny. Despitesaying kind words about having other partners in Windows Phone, though, this move will effectively end the Windows Phone licensing business. It will position Microsoft as a clear number three in the smartphone wars, but with a difficult decision. In combining the operating system and hardware under one roof, Microsoft’s smartphone division now looks like its increasingly go-it-alone Windows RT group and more like Apple AAPL +1.31%. But unlike Apple, the phones Nokia has been successfully selling aren’t high-margin, high-priced models. And they aren’t selling to Microsoft’s corporate customers either. Microsoft claims they are now a “devices and services” company, but this is the least attractive part of the device business. And if it tempts Microsoft’s worst impluses about its services, helping the company sell more Windows Phone might ultimate thwart what should be its larger aims.

When Steve Ballmer announced he was resigning, The Wall StreetJournal asked a bunch of technology executives what the next CEO of the company should do. While the frontrunner for that jump is clearly Nokia’s Steven Elop, the advice from former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, who currently runs Quip, crystallized the problem for whoever takes over.