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 under ...

Amazon announced a new web browser specifically designed for their new Kindle Fire Tablet, called Amazon Silk. The new browser lives partly on the tablet and partly in the cloud (on Amazon’s EC2 ...

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 ...

Since Amazon Silk is run by Amazon, it also has the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) behind it. Silk uses AWS to analyze traffic patterns and use predictive algorithms to pre-process pages.

Giving Silk that kind of dual personality has many benefits, but there are some drawbacks, too. Here are some pros and cons about the browser. Pros Because much of the work of rendering web pages ...

Amazon is considered the leader in such cloud services. Silk, which Amazon describes as a ‘cloud-accelerated’ Web browser, will only be available on the Kindle Fire tablet.

Amazon has responded (PDF) to Congressional questions regarding the Silk Web browser in its new Kindle Fire tablet, but Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) says the responses aren't enough. In answering Markey ...

Amazon Silk has the potential to dramatically improve the mobile Web--but its "split browser" design also poses two worrisome problems. Silk is a browser designed with one device in mind, so far ...

But if Silk is to serve a higher goal--driving Amazon e-commerce, say, or giving a foundation for a Web-app store push--then Amazon would likely extend to other areas. Two parallels are germane here.