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 ...

(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 ...