RIM Looking For Webkit Developer

on 11/02/2009, filed in Home > CellPhones

While the BlackBerry is a great communications device, a lot of folks out there know that its web browser isn’t all that hot, especially when you compare it to the likes of the Safari browser on Apple’s iPhone. Is RIM looking to do something about it? It certainly looks like it, especially since an ad has sprung up, stating that RIM is looking for a Canadian-based WebKit developer. If you’re a developer and interested in this, check it out, and might we add, if you get the job, please make a great browser for us all!

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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