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What is Skype?
Skype is free and simple software that will
enable you to make free calls anywhere in the world
in minutes.
Skype, created by the people who brought you KaZaA
uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to
connect you with other Skype users. If you are tired
of paying outrageous fees for telephony, Skype is
for you!
Skype is the next phenomenon that uses P2P
(peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other
users – not to share files this time, but to talk
and chat with your friends.
The technology is extremely advanced – but super
simple to use... You’ll be making free phone calls
to your friends in no time!
We were curious if this new technology really worked
and were the calls clear and easy to make, just as
using a telephone. This is what we found.
Skype is quick and easy to install. Just download
it, register, and within minutes you can plug in
your PC headset and call your friends on Skype.
Skype calls have excellent sound quality and are
highly secure with end-to-end encryption. Best of
all, Skype does not require you to reconfigure your
firewall or router - it just works!
Skype is offering the following features:
- Free unlimited worldwide phone calls to other
Skype users
- Superior sound quality
- Works with all firewall, NAT and routers – nothing
to configure!
- Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are
online and ready to talk or chat
- Super-simple and easy to use
- Your calls are encrypted “end-to-end” for superior
privacy
The technology is not new. If you will remember only
a few years back, services like DialPad and
Net2Phone were all the rage. The began with a free
service that allowed you to place calls from your
computer to any telephone in the world.
Then, slowly they restricted the amount of time from
unlimited to several minutes of free use. Net2Phone
is still around, but it costs.
Then came Instant Messaging - both MSN and Yahoo!
offer instant messaging to their registered members.
A Hotmail or MSN email account is required to use
MSN Messenger, while a Yahoo! email account is
needed to use Yahoo!'s messaging.
Skype doesn't require any special email account and
is completely free. For Now. And to boot, the makers
are claiming to be complete Ad-Free and Spam Free!
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