Amazon Web Services was launched in 2006 with the aim of providing online services for other web sites and client-side applications.
Browsers must communicate with all the audio and video applications on the kinetic Web and work with Web services that sites such as Amazon or Ebay have created to allow you to shop with them without having to visit.
Web Services are designed to help create Web sites that can be personalized and can be accessed by various devices, not only PCs, Gates said.
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The giants made it possible, but they've left the services part of Web services to the startups.
As has become the standard for new Web-based startups, the site is using Amazon Web Services to provide computing services.
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While free Web services produced just 6% of the Internet's pill-hawking and scam-pitching e-mail a year ago, automated spam programs exploiting Web e-mail services now produce more than 12% of digital junk mail, with Microsoft's Webmail services alone accounting for around 4%.
Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
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The software is free, a "viral marketing" effort to seed the Web to build demand for services sold to Web merchants themselves.
Applications that have been or are being moved to the cloud include email and Web services (77%), storage (74%) and collaboration solutions such as Web conferencing and instant messaging (72%).
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Best Buy has been broadening its products and services with more mobile phone offerings, web services as well as new Logitech and Sony devices associated with Google TV.
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The name GrandCentral originally belonged to a service that offered to help businesses use so-called "Web services"--applications that can be accessed using Web-friendly Internet protocols.
Amazon, a retail company and not yet a technology vendor, started building web services building blocks that customers could use to quickly build Web applications.
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These third-party Web services include things like ad servers, data or video feeds, Web analytics trackers and checkout functions.
Google sees its revenue-generating Web services as "inextricably linked to the infrastructure" of the pipes that bring the Web to people's devices, said David Callisch, a marketing executive at Ruckus Wireless Inc.
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These include Web clipping services, first introduced for the Palm VII, as well as Web sites transcoded from HTML to WML (Wireless Markup Language) using Aether Systems ScoutWeb technology.
We're all familiar with syncing bookmarks and save-for-later web services like Instapaper, but it's not often that they come with a full web component.
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This was the early days of e-services and I was beginning to get emotionally wired into e-mails and other web services.
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The reason for this lies in the volatility that continues to erupt around the pillars of disruption that define the open mobile era: rapid development of mobile Web technology, insatiable consumer demand for mobile Web and data services, and an evolving policy debate that may finally introduce a more equitable market.
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Video, mobile data, Web services and cloud storage are soaking up the once-forlorn fiber very quickly.
Microsoft is already competing with market leader Amazon Web Services, Google, Rackspace and many others.
Or Hotmail, one of the first Web services to give away e-mail for free.
Chinese web services company, Baidu ( BIDU), was initiated with a Buy at Jefferies.
Users can also easily transfer content to other devices or directly to web services.
Netflix uses Amazon Web Services in the first place because it provides a tremendous service.
Web services are currently most visible in the business model of so-called application service providers.
Canvas then connects to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-computing network operated by Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon has been using its cloud and web services to support its other services as well.
Along with RushmoreDrive, it is incubating several other niche Web services, including news, personal finance and virtual worlds sites.
On the Web services front, Gates announced a deal with privately held Kinko's.
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