RIM acquires Torch Mobile
The Torch Mobile blog published today the following announcement:
“Torch Mobile is excited to announce that our company has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM), one of the most renowned mobile technology companies in the world. Our team of developers will join RIM’s global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry® platform.
Torch Mobile’s team of highly skilled developers has been actively involved in Open Source development and includes contributors, Commiters and Reviewers of the WebKit project. As part of RIM, these developers will continue to be active participants in the WebKit development community.“
Torch Mobile are the providers of the Iris Browser, that is an advanced, high-performance and versatile Web browser application for mobile and embedded devices. The Iris Browser is based on the WebKit rendering engine, and is supposed to be designed to function in resource-constrained environments.
This acquisition is most likely in order to enhance the current RIM browser, which is quite criticized by the users of the RIM Blackberry devices.
