Skype

My personal favorite communication technology is Skype. Skype is a free web based communication program that anyone can download to their computer. Once you have it you can call anywhere in the world to anyone who has a computer with Skype on it. Skype voice and video calling has become one of the cheapest and easiest ways for people to communicate across the world. The idea of communication through the internet has become a reality with Skype. There are several different features that users can choose from when using Skype. You can choose to pay a little extra money and have unlimited calling to land lines anywhere in the world as well as the free computer calling.
I first came across Skype in 2004, when our family had a foreign exchange student from china live with us. She would jump on her computer and video chat with all of her friends back home. I remember asking her, what was the cost was and how I could get it. It wasn’t long before I had it on my computer. Then soon our entire family. While living in British Columbia this past summer I found Skype particularly useful. We paid two dollars a month to not only be able to call our family with computers but for the two extra dollars we could call any land line in Canada and the US. Try comparing that to a phone plan. For personal use Skype is almost perfect. The only weakness that I found listed was that large companies don’t trust Skype due to potential problems with their firewalls. (www.oreillynet.com)