Amazon will launch a corporate email and digital calendar service to rival Outlook and Gmail, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The new service, called WorkMail, is powered by Amazon’s cloud-based computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company plans to price WorkMail competitively with Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s business-oriented services, which also include …
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Apple Pay is on the move, now supported by more than 750 banks and credit unions. Jason Cipriani/CNET Apple Pay has become the most popular payment option of its kind, Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company’s earnings call Tuesday. The service continues to add financial institutions to its roster — it’s now up to 750 banks and credit …
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Uber has an opportunity to gain some goodwill during a big blizzard hitting the Northeast. Uber As New York City and the US Northeast hunker down for a nasty snowstorm, on-demand car service Uber is getting a chance at a bit of redemption. The company on Monday reminded New York users that during the storm it will place a cap …
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Now playing: Watch this: Windows 10 is a free upgrade for existing Windows customers 0:48 Microsoft will offer free upgrades to Windows 10 — the next version of its operating system — first for Windows 8.1 users and then for Windows 7 users, the company announced Wednesday. In the first year the software is available, the company will upgrade any …
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Enlarge ImageMicrosoft’s Windows 10 event featured a surprise appearance — holograms. Screenshot by David Katzmaier/CNET Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a device called HoloLens, marking its entry into the increasingly popular field of augmented reality. Similar to virtual reality, AR technology incorporates apps and services into the real world. The best-known devices in those areas are Google Glass, which lets people …
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eBay, getting ready to separate from its PayPal payments service, will cut about 7 percent of its workforce this quarter, the company said Wednesday as it delivered its fourth-quarter earnings report. About 2,400 jobs will be eliminated in the first quarter from its e-commerce units, eBay Marketplaces and eBay Enterprise, and PayPal. eBay is also consider selling eBay Enterprise or …
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Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne says his company wants a piece of the market Amazon has heavily invested in. Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET Overstock.com, known for selling products online at discount prices, will launch a video-streaming service in the first half of this year, pitting it against larger rival Amazon and its Instant Prime Video, the company announced Tuesday. The new …
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SpaceX’s CRS-5 Dragon spacecraft in orbit. The company’s latest project aims to connect Earthlings to the Net using thousands of satellites. SpaceX Elon Musk, the man who’s determined to move our civilization to Mars, will also tackle creating an Internet in space. The CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX said Friday night that he will use a fleet of satellites …
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Samsung talks TVs, fridges and ovens at CES 2015. James Martin/CNET LAS VEGAS — Samsung on Monday showed off its latest TVs and home appliances as it attempts to maintain its leadership position in home electronics. The Korean company has large ambitions: it sells more televisions and mobile devices than any other rival in the world, and it aims to …
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler plans to introduce proposed Net neutrality regulations in February. Mark Wilson/Getty Images The federal regulators who intend to place restrictions on how Internet providers manage their Web traffic plan to vote on new guidelines in February, the Federal Communications Commission said Friday. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler intends to introduce the proposed regulations in February for a …
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