Amazon's Silk browser en route to other devices?

Amazon has been on a URL shopping spree, splashing out on over 500 new domain names to add to its arsenal - including among them amazonsilkforandroid.com, amazonsilkformac.com and amazonsilkforpc.com.

Catchy dot coms they may not be, but the new URLs certainly suggest that Amazon's Kindle Fire browser, Silk, could be making its way on to other devices in the future.

It's no guarantee - Amazon may just be babysitting the domains so no one else can nab them, particularly given that the purchases were made through MarkMonitor, a brand protection agency - but it's an interesting proposition, and one that makes a modicum of sense.

Silky smooth

Announced yesterday, Silk is currently only on the Kindle Fire tablet, and uses a nifty combo of caching and the cloud to make web browsing super speedy and less power intensive for the tablet itself.

If these new URLs are to be believed, we could see this web capability come to other Android tablets and smartphones, as well as to the desktop PC and Mac computers.

For the time being though, we'd settle for Amazon to bring Silk to the UK on the Kindle Fire - a UK release date and pricing is nowhere to be seen.

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Amazon's cloud storage expanding rapidly

Amazon's latest statistics show a marked increase in the use of its cloud storage, as the concept of keeping your data online begins to go mainstream.

Amazon's S3 service (simple storage service) has apparently doubled the amount of objects in its servers since the turn of the year.

That has seen 2010's final total of 262 billion objects to the current level at more than 566 billion. That's a lot of objects.

Major player

The internet giant has been a major player in cloud storage – spotting the potential of the market early and making a name for itself with the likes of S3 and EC2.

With a burgeoning hardware business generated by the Kindle, the cloud storage capacity means that the company can do some very cool things with its devices.

That includes the Silk browser on the forthcoming Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, which taps into the cloud to ease the burden on the device itself.