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 ...

As a brief refresher, Amazon is looking to leverage the might of its huge computing cloud, known as EC2, to accelerate page loads on the Kindle Fire. When a user calls up a site, the query actually ...

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 ...

Amazon has packaged a set of technologies in its new Silk browser to speed up the web experience on the Kindle Fire. But they come at a cost in reduced privacy. Are they worth the price? Share on ...

The cloud-based design of Amazon’s Silk browser has positive security side effects because it encrypts all traffic between users and websites, especially important when connected over unprotected ...

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