What is "easylink"

EasyLink is a trade name which may refer to several technologies:

• The EasyLink trade name used by Philips for the Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) feature of the HDMI standard, used to control connected multimedia devices.
• The EasyLink service, one of the first marketable computer-based email systems for non-government users made by Western Union, now operated separately by EasyLink Services International Corporation.