While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus at Amazon’s launch event Wednesday in New York, the company also showed off a bit of potentially radical software technology as well, namely the ...

As part of the Kindle Fire unveiling on Wednesday, Amazon announced its new browser architecture, dubbed Silk, which does some processing and rendering in the cloud to speed up Web browsing. Featuring ...

Amazon’s new Silk browser has raised some eyebrows among privacy and security experts. “This makes Amazon like your ISP,” said Aaron Brauer-Rieke of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), ...

With little fanfare, Amazon launched its Silk web browser for Fire TV, allowing users with Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Edition televisions to surf the web from their big screen. The app offers ...

Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure and eight years of cloud computing expertise come together in new web browser for Kindle Fire--Amazon's new Kindle for movies, music, books, magazines, apps, ...

Amazon‘s Fire TV has been available for over three years, but one app that has been missing is the retail giant’s in-house Silk Browser. The usefulness of a web browser on your TV is debatable, but ...

One of the Kindle Fire’s most hyped features is the Amazon Silk web browser. Amazon took great pains to explain how its idea of a browser was unique on tablets. The powerful Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...

Amazon's Silk internet browser contained a serious bug which not only ignored SSL security standards in Google searches but prevented redirection to the secure version of the search engine. The Google ...

The Kindle Fire tablet's browser uses intelligent caching and pre-rendering to speed page delivery -- and does away with HTTP on the client side Although the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the ...

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While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus at Amazon’s launch event Wednesday in New York, the company also showed off a bit of potentially radical software technology as well, namely the ...