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Old 09-30-2011, 07:50 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by carpetmojo View Post
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 ......
This?


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
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