Firefox goes Mobile all the way

Mozilla Firefox. Now, I don't really know what that name means to you, but to me, it means something very important: freedom. I remember discovering Firefox back in 2004, freeing me from the claws of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and giving me the choice of using a browser I liked as well as delivering an awesome experience in my old PIII clocked at 600Mhz. Before Firefox, my favorite browser was Netscape, maybe because of its looks, or maybe not, but the fact is, it was the biggest competitor to Microsoft's Internet browser back in the day. Fast forward to the present day, and the browser wars is currently being held between four major competitors: Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox. But, the browser wars is actually old news, isn't it? We're here for the mobile browser wars.

BlackBerry renews itself

A couple of months ago, a video was made official by Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry line of smartphones, teasing the release of its latest smartphone Operating System, BlackBerry 6. Now, in the last couple of years, we've seen BlackBerry moving from OS 4.7 to 5.0, and now from 5.0 to 6. The interesting tidbit here is that the OS did not look different when OS 5 debuted, and clearly, BlackBerry devices were being left behind as iOS, Android and webOS brought innovation to the consumer market. Like Symbian and Windows Mobile, BlackBerry OS belonged to an old era, and OS 5 was supposed to bring RIM's most important product back into the fight. But it didn't. Now the question is, what is BlackBerry 6? Is it just another makeover with a new number to make it feel new? Or did RIM really put in an effort to make its mobile Operating System worth our time? Let's find out.

The spirit of hacking

A couple days ago I stumbled upon a post regarding the HTC HD2 on Engadget. Although it wasn't the first post on that particular subject, the attached video got me really thinking. Here it is: