Among the features in Amazon’s just-announced Kindle Fire tablet is a new browser calld Amazon Silk. Silk is what Amazon calls a cloud-accelerated web browser, which splits the task of loading ...

On Wednesday, while Jeff Bezos was taking the stage to unveil the Kindle Fire (our impressions here) and its new Silk browser, Amazon employees were furiously buying up about 500 different Website ...

One of the big selling points of the Kindle Fire is the device’s unique Silk web browser. According to Amazon, it uses the power of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing cluster to accelerate your page ...

An update to Amazon’s Silk browser for the Kindle Fire HD speeds up page loads and adds a new Trending Now section to display a list of most popular sites. Amazon hasn’t said whether or not the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon’s Kindle Fire Silk browser, which promises faster browsing by loading some webpage elements on the server ...

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The most interesting feature on Amazon’s newly announced Kindle Fire tablet may be its Silk web browser. The browser promises to improve webpage loading performance by using Amazon’s servers to help ...

(NASDAQ: AMZN)--Amazon Silk introduces a radical new paradigm - a "split browser" architecture that accelerates the power of the mobile device hardware by using the computing speed and power of the ...

Earlier this week, both Democrat and Republican members of Congress expressed concern over privacy of users that browse the Web through the Amazon Silk browser on the currently unreleased Kindle Fire.

It's been an exciting couple of days for Amazon. Yesterday, the company announced a slew of new devices, ranging from the Kindle Paperwhite to the Kindle Fire HD (in all of its various forms), along ...

One of the headline features of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is a completely new Web browser called Silk that is designed with a "split" architecture, allowing it to offload much of the heavy ...

Amazon’s Silk web browser, which comes built into Kindle Fire devices, has received its first major upgrade since September 2012, the company announced today. Though there have been steady ...