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[winflowers]

What is Skype?
Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype 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!

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” in order to safeguard your privacy
Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid

http://skype.com/

[Eric Straven]

Thanks for sharing this with us , I'm sure it will be useful to a lot of people!

[winflowers]

It's not only a P2P phone, you can also use its SkypeOut function to make calls to friends who only have a landline or mobile phone anywhere in the world at local rates.

[pr3dr49]

eyeballcaht is also fine

[yomi]

Are there many people use IP phone or Video Phone via Internat?

[truvu17]

Since were talking about telephony related stuff, I have been looking for a great VMB and IVR to use (voice message broadcast and interactive voice recognition, respectively) with my voice modem. For the VMB, I need preditive dialing, cuz I want to dial and leave message only to voicemail and play a "oh i got the wrong number" when someone picks up. If anybody know of a good software to use and I am able to download, please let me know, thanks.

[Jaykachu]

i not sure, heard bout skype, but i still prefer limewire, always downloads at max speed

[akz]

limewire is still the best.. skype dosnt work that well with my comptuer ~_~

[gotcha41]

Those kazaa-guys know what to devellope! A nice creation it is, skype. I use it often and i have to admit, I like the concept and it saves me a lot of money. btw just like kazaa. I wonder what their next creation will be.

[alperuzi]

skype is awesome, I used it for the past two years to call back home and works perfectly. Good quality sound, easy to set up (parents don't always know how to do things!) and best of all FREE!

The only thing it lacks is a webcam feature, for that I need to use MSN, but then again, nothing is ever perfect

[a3k]

alperuzi, on Sep 26 2004, 08:02 PM, said:

skype is awesome, I used it for the past two years to call back home and works perfectly. Good quality sound, easy to set up (parents don't always know how to do things!) and best of all FREE!

The only thing it lacks is a webcam feature, for that I need to use MSN, but then again, nothing is ever perfect

2 years? no way, i remember reading that it was early beta in April 04.

[a3k]

i thought skype is only PC 2 PC, was I wrong??

[googlue]

winflowers, on Sep 1 2004, 10:53 PM, said:

What is Skype?
Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype 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!

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” in order to safeguard your privacy
Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid

http://skype.com/

winflowers, is this software legal?
Isn't it something like Kazaa? P2P?

What is the status of this program? Can we use this without any threat of legal suits? You inputs will be helpful.

Thanks

Googlue!

[winflowers]

googlue, on Sep 27 2004, 04:04 AM, said:

winflowers, on Sep 1 2004, 10:53 PM, said:

What is Skype?
Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype 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!

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” in order to safeguard your privacy
Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid

http://skype.com/

winflowers, is this software legal?
Isn't it something like Kazaa? P2P?

What is the status of this program? Can we use this without any threat of legal suits? You inputs will be helpful.

Thanks

Googlue!

I don't know why you suspect its ligality. Have you thought of it when you contact your friends with MSN messanger?
Of course, you can get what you need from their website.

I would like to say: Just use it!

[alperuzi]

a3k, on Sep 27 2004, 08:47 AM, said:

2 years? no way, i remember reading that it was early beta in April 04.

It was early beta at first, but that was waay before april... more like a year ago september I would guess. In april they probably put up a really good version, it got popular afterwards.

[dundun2007]

This is one of the stupidest things i have heard of... Whats the point of it? If you want to talk to someone or transfer files theres already 1000s of programs that do that why add another one to the pile?

[alperuzi]

have you ever used skype?

it has its advantages, trust me. The biggest one being that it is FREE, and that it works behind routers and firewalls without the need for any extra setup. That wipes out 99% of the competition right there.

[NTNguyen]

a3k, on Sep 27 2004, 04:19 AM, said:

i thought skype is only PC 2 PC, was I wrong??

no you can use a feature that is called SkypeOut. You pay about 2 ct per minute if you call to eg Australia, Canada, Ireland, Germany, US. And sometimes even mobiles!
The downside is that you need a credit card, and outside the US you won't find them very often.

SkypeOutRates

[katif]

Skype is great, I have used it a few times, but I'd use it more often if my friends had it...
But it's very useful, coz u don't have to pay for anything

[Casanova]

Do you know if this works with 56k modems? How is the quality of the sound in it?

[arab-learn]

ya Skype is so sweet i liked it

[andruha]

I use Skipe already for a long time and I do not complain. Every day I slander till many hours

[ashiezai]

skype is cool
all of my frens are using it .. we now can make conference call online ..
the sound quality is the best for all the programmes that i have used.
there's no prob using it even with a 56k dialup

[jjhou]

I use it often and i have to admit, I like the concept and it saves me a lot of money. btw just like kazaa. I wonder what their next creation will be. skype is awesome, I used it for the past two years to call back home and works perfectly. Good quality sound, easy to set up (parents don't always know how to do things!) and best of all FREE!