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09-29-2011, 07:18 PM | #16 |
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Funny, but this blog also missed one of the big benefits of the Silk browser. Namely, since they push the heavy lifting to the Amazon servers it will also decrease the battery drain that web surfing typically has on mobile devices.
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09-30-2011, 03:25 AM | #17 | |
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Yes it is nice you can turn it off, but frankly I think it should be op't in with nice clear language for what explicitly is being logged, but fat chance of any profit making business being that transparent. I'm also still curious how it will handle SSL. |
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09-30-2011, 05:39 AM | #18 |
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When it comes to privacy, the difference between Mark Zuckerburg and Jeff Bezos is that Bezos has the courtesy to grease the shaft first. Yet if I speak with my children (in their early 30s), they see no problem with the lack of privacy.
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09-30-2011, 06:15 AM | #19 | |
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09-30-2011, 06:17 AM | #20 |
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Yes, exactly Amazon is a business, they are not my friend (see other thread ) and definitely with the recent moves they have given with one hand and taken with the other.
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09-30-2011, 07:12 AM | #21 |
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Piece in The Independent today about this - sorry. couldn't sort a link for it, p'raps someone more savvy might want to ?
Sounds worth a grumble, but as Diap says, it sounds fairly close to what you've all been suffering anyway ...... |
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Read the small print: Amazon's iPad rival hit by privacy fears By Kevin Rawlinson Friday, 30 September 2011 It has been heralded as the first real challenge to the Apple iPad's stranglehold on the tablet computer market. But only hours after its launch and more than two months before it appears in shops, privacy concerns have surfaced about the Kindle Fire. Fears expressed about Amazon's new tablet range will leave the world's largest online retailer with a "headache", business analysts said yesterday. They centre on the new internet browser, designed especially for the Kindle Fire, which was launched on Wednesday. Writing on the Naked Security blog, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos Chester Wisniewski, said that the new browser, Silk, relies on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) network to bear the majority of the burden of retrieving web pages and pre-render pictures to save battery life and increase the speed of mobile browsing. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...s-2363379.html Last edited by kennyc; 09-30-2011 at 07:52 AM. |
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09-30-2011, 09:32 AM | #23 | |
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Maybe we should do a scientific study. |
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09-30-2011, 09:45 AM | #25 | |
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09-30-2011, 09:46 AM | #26 |
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09-30-2011, 09:57 AM | #28 |
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A lot of websites ar already run by amazon servers. This will help to speed up the web pages. They have a good video of it on their YouTube page.
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09-30-2011, 10:44 AM | #29 |
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Oh, I'm sure it will improve mobile browser performance, but it's what's not being said that is of issue.
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09-30-2011, 11:03 AM | #30 |
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Amazon? You're soaking in it!
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