Yesterday Amazon not only announced its new tablet, but it also debuted a new browser to go along with it: Silk. Unlike other browsers, Silk is a "split browser," as Apple employee 8 Chris ...

The key merit of Amazon's Silk browser lies in its "split browser" approach, where it leverages the cloud to provide a speedier mobile browsing experience for users and possible edge over ...

Amazon's Fire TV Stick is an anomaly that comes with Amazon's proprietary web browser, aka the Silk Browser. The browser also comes preloaded on all Fire Tablets, Echo Shows, and other devices.

The Amazon Silk web browser has this week been made available to download as an app for most Amazon Fire TV devices enabling users to surf the web and also play web video directly on your large ...

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. Topics Spotlight: Advancing IT Leadership; ...

The browser will determine whether to download the mobile or the static version of any given website, ... Amazon had no immediate plans to port Silk for other platforms, Jenkins said.

This isn’t Amazon’s first dip into the browser waters, though. Amazon did put out a web browser once, which it called Silk. First launched in 2011, Silk was meant for Amazon’s own products.

One of the coolest features of the is Amazon's proprietary Silk browser, an application designed to leverage Amazon's massive server resources by precaching Web pages and delivering them to you faster ...

The Fire 7, while technically an Android tablet, runs on Amazon’s Fire OS 8 software and uses its own Silk browser. Therefore, there’s no Google Play Store.

At the end of the survey, Amazon asked users to "imagine that there is a new desktop/laptop browser" available, and to rate which feature would convince them to download such a new browser among ...