Not Key Lime Pie, Its Kit Kat.

In a surprise twist, Google announced that the next version of Google's operating system will be named KitKat in honor of the Hershey's (or Nestle) chocolate bar, instead of Key Lime Pie, which previous code numbers and images had led us to believe.

If a software company co-branding with a confectionery brand feels unprecedented, you'd be correct. The closest we've come to seeing another brand work with Android came in 2010 with the 2.2 Froyo release. Feeling more like a friendly gesture than a legal arrangement, nationwide frozen yogurt chain TCBY congratulated Google.

Everyone thought that the next version of Android would be called Key Lime Pie, but Google has surprised everyone by naming it after the Nestle chocolate bar, the Kit Kat. Yep, you read that right, the next version of Android is named after an actual chocolate bar.

Google is well known for naming each version of its Android operating system after desserts and treats, such as Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Jelly Bean. It's also incremented its codenames alphabetically, giving everyone the view that Android 4.4 would be called Key Lime Pie.

Google's Sundar Pichai, head of both Android and Chrome, has confirmed that the next version of Android will be called KitKat.

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Microsoft to buy Nokia.

Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia's 

mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn;

 £4.6bn).

Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Microsoft. Nokia shares jumped 35% on the news, whereas Microsoft's fell more than 5%.

The purchase is set to be completed in early 2014, when about 32,000 Nokia employees will transfer to Microsoft.

Nokia has fallen behind rivals Samsung and Apple, while critics say Microsoft has been slow into the mobile market.

Describing the deal as a "big, bold step forward", Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told the BBC that his company was in the process of transforming itself from one that "was known for software and PCs, to a company that focuses on devices and services".

Nokia Timeline

1871: Founded. Spends the next century making tyres, boots and cables.

1987: Launches first phone. The Mobira Cityman weighs almost 1kg.

1992: Sells non-mobile divisions and launches first digital GSM phone, the Nokia 1011.

2000: Stock market value hits 186bn euros. Now worth 11bn euros.

2003: Basic 1100 phone launched. Goes on to sell 250 million units and become the world's most popular consumer electronic device.

2011: Abandons Symbian mobile phone operating software and switches to the Windows platform instead.

2013: Launches the Lumia 1020 boasting a 41 megapixel camera.

Source: Reuters/Nokia

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