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		cobrabyte on Sept 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet I was checking out the specs on the Fire at Amazon's product page and got to the bottom, where they talk about Amazon Silk -- the 'split browser' used on the Fire. It appears to offload intensive processing to Amazon EC2 instances. Very cool stuff and, to me, more newsworthy than the launch of a tablet. I'd like to hear more details on Silk. More info (and video from Silk developers): http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazo...

julianb on Sept 28, 2011 | [–]

Interesting. Found some more details here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2#silk

iam on Sept 28, 2011 | [–]

Really, really cool. I hope they extend Silk to all their products.

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