Posted by Junelli 3:26 PM
Some of you may already know about Skype. It's an internet telephone service that lets you talk to anyone in world for free. It's the fastest growing dotcom in history (currently at 47 million users), and a lot of people speculate that it'll change the telecommunications industry. Here's the scoop:

You can talk to another Skype user anywhere in the world for free. There is no charge for international calls. You talk to each other over the Internet using a microphone or headset on your PC. The quality is great.

You can also use Skype to call a real phone anywhere in the world for about 2.5 cents per minute. We just set it up so we could talk to Dabney's sister in Switzerland. If you want to talk to people out of the country, this program is the shizzznit.





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1 Comment(s):

Posted by  LAYGO, at 9:07 AM, August 12, 2005  

There have been plenty of VoIP apps out for awhile. While few can actually make calls to real phones, if you get 2 people with the software, who needs phones?

A lot of this stuff was used primarily for gamers so they could talk in game instead of typing.

Battlefield Communicator (later BattleCom)
Roger Wilco
Team Speak

I can remember in 1999 trying to get my company to save on long distance charges by using BattleCom.

To think people could use these apps for collusion as well . . .

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