Tag: TORCH-MOBILE

Blackberry has acquired Torch Mobile, developers of the Iris web browser. The webkit-based browser is currently not available for RIM's smartphones though that's about to change in the wake of the acquisition. As reported on the Torch Mobile website, "Our team of developers will join RIM's global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to ...

If you're starting to feel like every few days someone is announcing a new or updated web browser for Windows Mobile, you're not wrong. Hot on the heels of NetFront 3.5 beta and the announcement of Opera Mobile 9.5, Torch Mobile has launched a public beta of the new Iris browser for Windows Mobile. What makes the Iris browser different is that it's based on WebKit, the same rendering engine used ...