Is the Kindle Finally Ready for the Web? [MediaMemo]

If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That’s because it’s a lousy experience, and one Amazon does its best to keep away from its users (hint: look in the gadget’s “experimental” menu).

But maybe Amazon is ready to rethink the Web.

Michael Calore notes a job opening at Lab126, Amazon’s consumer products unit that built the Kindle, for an engineer to help build “an innovative embedded web browser.”

It’s possible that Amazon (AMZN) is thinking about something other than the Kindle here. But a decent Web browser for the e-book reader is long overdue.

I understand why Amazon didn’t push the browser when it rolled out its first device in 2007 — it had other priorities — but at this point having a wireless device that only grudgingly... [View Full Article]