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The Amazon Silk web browser has this week been made available to download as an app for most Amazon Fire TV devices enabling users to surf the web and also play web video directly on your large screen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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The Amazon Silk Browser is fairly innovative because it can buffer in advance websites you visit on a regular basis, to cut down on the load times. One feature that has sorely lacking is private ...

Amazon’s Fire TV devices are among the best streaming devices you can buy, and now they’ve gotten even more flexible. The Silk browser, previously available on Amazon’s Fire tablets, has come to the ...

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While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus at Amazon’s launch event Wednesday in New York, the company also showed off a bit of potentially radical software technology as well, namely the ...

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With the launch of Amazon’s new Silk browser yesterday, it’s already been thought that Amazon might in the future roll it out to other operating systems such as Windows and Mac. Domain names also ...