Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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.

Faster mobile browsing is great, but Amazon Silk raises questions about supporting modern Web apps and sharing data with an e-commerce powerhouse. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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 competitors, ...

The most interesting and significant aspect of Amazon's Kindle announcements on Thursday was not the hardware, diverting as it might be. It was Silk, the browser that the Kindle Fire runs - currently, ...

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 ...

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(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 ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by Todd Bishop on Sep 28, 2011 at 8:23 am November 9, 2014 at ...

At Amazon.com's (NAS: AMZN) press event yesterday, the new Kindles took center stage. An underappreciated innovation that the company announced was its new mobile Web browser, Amazon Silk. Amazon CEO ...

Silk is a so-called "split" browser, using Amazon’s servers to compress and simplify websites before they’re served to the user. While it speeds up the browsing experience, it also means Amazon can ...

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 Espinosa ...