ExtremeTech

Amazon Silk revisited: Is the "split" cloud browser any faster?

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 ...
ExtremeTech

Amazon Silk: Bridging the gap between desktop and mobile web browsers

Along with three new e-ink readers (Kindle Classic, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G) and a new, 7-inch, Android-based Kindle Fire, Amazon has also announced the introduction of a web browser -- Amazon ...
Ars Technica

Kindle Fire's Silk browser can be ported to other Android devices

The Kindle Fire's Silk browser uses Amazon's servers to predictively load webpages and speed up the browsing process, a feature that many Android users would love to get their hands on.
Ars Technica

Amazon's Silk Web browser adds new twist to old idea

Amazon has developed a new mobile Web browser called Silk that offloads some of the work of loading Web pages to the company's cloud computing infrastructure. It can even compile JavaScript into ARM ...
AppleInsider

Kindle Fire features Amazon's 'cloud-accelerated' Silk Web browser

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 ...