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RIM Is Definitely Developing A WebKit (Read: Decent) Browser
2:18AM John Herrman | It wasn’t a huge leap to take RIM’s purchase of Torch Mobile, a software company known almost exclusively for making a single WebKit mobile browser, as a sign that the company was ready to take the dive, but just in case that wasn’t enough, BlackBerry just put out a call for WebKit developers: More »
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Not All WebKit Browsers Are Created Equal
5:40AM John Herrman | It’s behind some of the best desktop browsers, and all of the great mobile ones. But just because a company says they’re using WebKit, the open source website rendering engine, doesn’t guarantee an awesome browser. More »
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Opera Mini 5 Beta Out Now: Tabbed Browsing, Speed Dial Bookmarks
5:30PM Danny Allen | Unlike Opera Mobile, Opera Mini crunches pages a server for viewing on your Java phone or BlackBerry. The new beta has a snappier interface geared for touch or keypad control, and adds tabbed browsing, speed dial and a password manager. More »
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RIM Eats Up Torch Mobile (Translation: BlackBerry’s Going WebKit)
12:51AM John Herrman | Another mobile software maker has fallen for the seductive charms of WebKit, and it’s a biggie: RIM has acquired Torch Mobile—the company that makes the WebKit-based Iris browser—to “contribute to the BlackBerry platform”. So long, asstastic BlackBerry browser. More »
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Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta Now Live for Windows Mobile Phones
8:59PM John Herrman | Whoa, hey, Opera has just posted download links for the beta release of Opera Mobile 9.7, the server-side accelerated, Flash-friendly update to their flagship mobile browser. Let’s see how it is, shall we? More »
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Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Mobile Site, First TV Ad
11:10PM John Herrman | Bing’s launch has officially reached stage two: Microsoft has rolled out a mobile version of the site, and debuted the search engine’s first TV ad. How are they? More »
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Opera 10 Beta Adds Visual Tabs, Server-Side Compression
7:57PM John Herrman | The Opera 10 browser beta has opened to the public, cloaked in a slightly new interface and boasting a couple key features over the last version. Live tab previews and new navigation are the most conspicuous changes, though the most important one is under the hood: like Opera Mini and the upcoming version of Opera Mobile, Opera 10 supports server-side compression. More »
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Skyfire Leaves Beta, Steals Windows Mobile Browsing Crown
11:00PM John Herrman | Skyfire, the server-compressed mobile browser that promises “the full web,” i.e. Flash support, on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, has graduated from its excruciatingly long testing period. In a word, it’s great.
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Firefox Mobile Pre-Alpha Now Available for VGA Windows Mobile Phones
9:11PM John Herrman | Just as Mozilla’s developer wiki cryptically promised last week, a pre-alpha build of Firefox Mobile ‘Fennec’ has been made available for the HTC Touch Pro, though it’ll work on many other VGA (480×640) WinMo phones. More »
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