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it's time to start sending money through email I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update the company's square launched an incredibly simple way to send money over email to anyone in the US for absolutely free the service is called square cash and it doesn't require either person to set up any square account all you have to do to send money is to address an email to the recipient put the amount of money in the subject line and the key is to CC the address cash at square calm the body can say anything you want it to now if this is your first time doing this to send or receive cash square then send you a follow-up email asking for your debit card and then wawa Square will use that account for the transaction and future emails sent this way we'll use the same debit account the most you can send is 2500 dollars a week and the money should arrive in a day or two so why is this free square is trying to raise brand awareness and to grow popularity to take on competitors like PayPal squares main success has been with those square shaped card swiping devices they attach to smartphones and tablets to allow any merchant to accept plastic mobile payments are a competitive area right now and companies will do anything to win even give away 1 million free smoothies yep a service called Isis is expanding nationally and hoping to get attention for its mobile payment technology by giving away free jamba juice smoothies to customers that pay with their smartphones using the Isis mobile wallet it can only work with some smart phones that have an end of C chip which stands for Near Field Communication Isis is owned by Verizon AT&T and t-mobile and it competes with google wallet which works with sprint the windows 8 operating system is getting an update this week the latest version 8.1 will arrive as a free update for current Windows 8 users and it'll have some new settings that should bring some relief to people who miss old features like the start button now this new start button on the desktop isn't exactly the same but clicking it will bring you back to the last menu and a right click lets you access some of the traditional options like system settings device manager File Explorer search and of course shutting down the computer also in this update you can boot the computer straight to desktop mode and skip the colorful tiles windows 8.1 also lets you set the default app to what you want to use for a web browser email client music or video player and some other programs to get the details on these and other tips check out our how-to for getting started with Windows 8.1 that's your tech news update for more details head to cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey