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amazon may be taking on the ipad with a super low price tablet I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update as we're bombarded with reports about all the new gadgets apple will release in the fall it looks like Amazon could have a new tablet out in time for the holidays the wall street journal reports that amazon is working on releasing a fifty-dollar tablet with a 6-inch screen and that's the lure in the more budget-conscious shoppers that makes it half the price of amazon's current cheapest 6 inch HD fire tablet which you see here the journal reports we could also see amazon release a few other tablet models as well the market for tablets isn't very hot right now most people who own one keep it for a long time in don't upgrade the global tablet market declines seven percent from this time of year ago that's according to an IDC report and shipments for apples iPads have declined twenty-six percent from two years ago meanwhile Amazon is also pushing deeper into its delivery service with restaurant meal deliveries in Seattle it announced a partnership with a handful of eateries to deliver food to your door in one hour or less with the Prime now app you can only get the restaurant food delivery if you're a prime member which costs a hundred dollars a year and it's part of the membership perks the apps seamless and grubhub are leaders in the space but Amazon isn't the only one cooking up some new competition in July Groupon also began a restaurant delivery and take out service called Groupon to go that's in Chicago and uber the car service also has a lunch delivery service for a few cities in other mobile news verizon is launching a new free mobile video streaming service it's called go 90 and it's making a big marketing push to millennials to try it out it's free and it's supported by advertisements it will play a mixture of traditional live TV programming and on-demand shows along with some shorter clips similar to the types of clips you'll find on youtube you'll get content from MTV Comedy Central Nickelodeon and the NFL is also a Content partner this go 90 service isn't just for verizon subscribers its offered to everyone but it can only be on phones and tablets so you can't watch on a Roku an Apple TV or even a laptop verizon also announced that it's going to begin testing crazy fast 5g wireless speeds within the next year yeah 5g and maybe it'll be deployed commercially in 2017 industry experts say we wouldn't see a new wireless speed roll out until the year 2020 so this will make verizon the world's first carrier to test 5g which could be 30 to 50 times faster than our current 4G network maybe even higher speeds than what Google Fiber offers you can download a whole movie in 15 seconds that's it for this tech news update but be sure to head to cnet.com for the latest from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey