RIM buys developer of the Iris browser

Posted by r7000 on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @12:51AM
from the thestar.com dept.

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/685880

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Re:RIM buys developer of the Iris browser by nuweborder on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @01:17AM (#786615)

Worth it since now the company can implement the browser immediately, instead off waiting to develop, test and launch it. Time is money, and in the long run, RIM may have just saved both. Look out IPhone. Now if RIM can just improve the Blackberry App World.

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Re:RIM buys developer of the Iris browser by Watts on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @10:40AM (#787236)

This is fantastic news. I have been developing a mobile version of a web site this week and WebKit has been a dream. The BlackBerry version... not so much. It seems like WebKit is becoming the standard for mobile these days.

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Re:RIM buys developer of the Iris browser by jsz0 on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @01:13AM (#786611)

I'm really surprised RIM had to buy a company to implement a WebKit based browser. Seems like they should have been able to do it in house. I guess if the pricetag was low enough it makes sense.

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Re:RIM buys developer of the Iris browser by karanbhangui on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @01:26AM (#786623)

Yeah, I think RIM has the engineering talent, but this move seems to be a time saver.

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Re:RIM buys developer of the Iris browser by sunkencity on Thursday August 27, 2009 @04:27AM (#788874)

Having worked with java apps for blackberry, I fear that not everything is all right with their current organization. Making java apps for blackberry is even worse than making them for nokia or sonyericson. Poorly documented and broken in mysterious ways.

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