RIM has begun to release details of its highly anticipated OS 6 and so far it looks like a winner. Features include a podcast service, improved music library, photo features, new social networking and YouTube tools, and perhaps what most users are looking forward to, an all new user interface and WebKit browser. Many BlackBerry more »

RIM has announced the upcoming launch of a new web browser for its BlackBerry smartphones. The new WebKit browser is meant to help make the devices even more attractive to consumers. “Today we are announcing an exciting new offering that further expands the market opportunity for the BlackBerry platform,” said Mike Lazaridis, co-chief executive officer more »

I am loathe to use job posting info on what a company is thinking but it is worth mentioning that RIM is looking for a webkit developer presumably to help out with Blackberry’s browser. In addition to their recent Torch Mobile purchase it seems clear RIM is owning up to the fact that their browser more »

It’s taken a while, but I’ve managed to use Google Chrome nearly exclusively for quite a few days now. I say “nearly” because unfortunately, Chrome is not yet available on Mac OS X and I’ve been forced to use it in Parallels, on Boot Camp as well as on other people’s computers. There will be a version for Chrome coming for Mac soon, but for now it’s Windows only. The good news is that Chrome worked quite well in every way I could use it.

The first thing to keep in mind is that Chrome, along with just about every other Google product/service that isn’t the search engine, is in beta and according to Google themselves is “far from done.” Although, keeping up with Google’s other beta releases, you’re unlikely to run into too many problems unless you’re a real power user. It’s refreshing, but makes it surprising when Chrome can hitch once in a while.

In terms of design, Chrome seems to borrow heavily from Opera, which put me off a bit, but actually made me appreciate the ideas of the URL bar below the tab design a bit more. Google seems to have put a lot of effort into making Chrome stand out from your other applications. The window itself is made to look similar to a Vista window without Aero, which makes it looks nicer and might draw in the average user and some “power users” (I must admit that it drew me in as a Mac user that also uses XP).