Latest news about Skype internet phone:
2006.01.02 Terry Brock, The Business Journal -
Skype offers a worldwide phone service for free
You know that communication is critical for success in your work. One of the traits I've seen over and over with highly successful executives is their ability to stay in touch with customers and suppliers on a regular basis.
Recently eBay purchased a service called Skype for the tidy sum of $2.6 billion. This should get the attention of every entrepreneur and salesperson who is interested in staying in touch with customers and in saving money.
In case you missed it, Skype is a service that allows you to talk over the Internet and make calls for free. You can call from your Skype account to another Skype account at no charge. The software is also free to download from www.skype.com. ...read more
Skype Articles
The Skype Approach To Voip - A Review Of Skype By: Hamesh Brown
With internet usage reaching almost every country, and economic class, and with its permeation throughout the western world, applications designed to harness its potential in ever more practical ways are constantly arising. One such application is Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP), which continues
to challenge its own limitations. There are a few leading players who
are jostling for supremacy, including Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger,
Skype, and Vonage.
Recently, there have been many converts to Skype, including this reviewer. There are several factors that have influenced my own personal move, but my primary motivations were innovation, quality, and marketability. VoIP has always been an application that is easily marketable, and Skype has added innovative features that are quality-rich....[read more]
The Internet Phone Revolution
By Roger Overanout
The world is on the brink of a phone revolution, with a growing number of people cutting their telecom bills by making free calls via the World Wide Web.
A recent sign of this is that EBay, the online auction website, is so sure the idea will catch on, that it has paid $4.1 billion for the Internet Phone firm Skype Technologies.
Shortly all the millions of people who buy and sell goods on eBay will be able to use Skype's software, to talk to each other free and also make cut price calls to other landlines and cell phones.
Internet Phone services such as Skype are specially valuable for people who make a great deal of international telephone calls, as even these are free as long as both caller and receiver use the Skype software...read more
Skype Lets You Make Free Phone Calls Online by Jim Edwards
Everywhere you turn phone companies offer 3 or 5-cent long distance phone calls, or even unlimited long distance for a flat fee monthly. Now you can make reliable calls using the Internet for anywhere from 0 to 2.3-cents per minute.
Welcome to Skype, the Internet telephony company that has set the traditional telephone world on its ear. Recently purchased by Ebay for 2.6 billion dollars, Skype stands ready to revolutionize worldwide voice communication simply because they enable you to carry on crystal clear voice communication with anyone else in the world with a either a phone or Internet connection.What's the catch you ask? ...read more
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