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Skype is software for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

The calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption. You don’t even need to configure your firewall or router or any other networking gear.

Additionally it doesn’t just work on Windows. Skype is also for Mac OS X, Linux and PDAs using Pocket PC, with a native look and feel for each platform. Talking, sending instant messages or even file transfers work between different platforms like a charm.

• Skype calling - Skype has all the features of an ordinary phone so it’s even easier to manage your calls.
• Video calling - see who you are talking to at the same time as speaking to them.
• Add Skype and SkypeOut contacts - Add contacts who use Skype and those who use ordinary phones so you can call more people.
• Organising groups - group contacts under certain names and share them with your contacts so they can talk to them too.
• Basic chat and emoticons - when it’s not convenient to call, chat or Instant Message (IM) your contacts.
• Group chat - for when it’s easier to chat or Instant Message (IM) all your friends at once.
• Profile settings - change how you appear to the world and let people know a bit about you.
• Conference calling - talk to more than one friend at a time.
• Import contacts - search your address book to find friends and family that already have a Skype name and start calling them for free.
• View Outlook contacts - view and call your Microsoft Outlook® contacts quickly and directly from your Skype contact list.
• Quickfilter and Speed-Dial - find Skype contacts, recent chats and SkypeOut contacts quickly and easily, then enter their Skype name to call them back quickly.

Title: Skype 5.9.0.114
Filename: SkypeSetup.exe
File size: 922KB (944,264 bytes)
Requirements: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64
Languages: Multiple languages
License: Freeware
Date added: April 22, 2012
Author: Skype Technologies
Homepage: www.skype.com/get-skype

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Skype Software S.a.r.l has released an updated Skype 3.7 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, with stability improvements for iOS 5 and some bug fixes.

Skype 3.7 is compatible with iPhone 4S, 4, 3GS, 3G, iPad 2, original iPad, and iPod touch running over iOS 3.0 or later.

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Skype 3.7 for iPhone and iPod Touch  Skype 3.7 for iPad

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Skype is software for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

The calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption. You don’t even need to configure your firewall or router or any other networking gear.

Additionally it doesn’t just work on Windows. Skype is also for Mac OS X, Linux and PDAs using Pocket PC, with a native look and feel for each platform. Talking, sending instant messages or even file transfers work between different platforms like a charm.

• Skype calling – Skype has all the features of an ordinary phone so it’s even easier to manage your calls.
• Video calling – see who you are talking to at the same time as speaking to them.
• Add Skype and SkypeOut contacts – Add contacts who use Skype and those who use ordinary phones so you can call more people.
• Organising groups – group contacts under certain names and share them with your contacts so they can talk to them too.
• Basic chat and emoticons – when it’s not convenient to call, chat or Instant Message (IM) your contacts.
• Group chat – for when it’s easier to chat or Instant Message (IM) all your friends at once.
• Profile settings – change how you appear to the world and let people know a bit about you.
• Conference calling – talk to more than one friend at a time.
• Import contacts – search your address book to find friends and family that already have a Skype name and start calling them for free.
• View Outlook contacts – view and call your Microsoft Outlook® contacts quickly and directly from your Skype contact list.
• Quickfilter and Speed-Dial – find Skype contacts, recent chats and SkypeOut contacts quickly and easily, then enter their Skype name to call them back quickly.

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System Requirements:

• Operating System: Windows All Version
• Language: English-US
• License: Freeware
• Author: Skype Technologies
• Website: www.skype.com

Download Link:

Download Skype 5.8 Offline Installer

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[ad]Google moved into Skype territory this week with a new VoIP service that works from the Gmail interface. Now the search giant is throwing down the real-time gauntlet with a new service that hopes to one-up both Bing and Twitter.

Dubbed Google Realtime Search, Google rolled out a page that returns Twitter conversations and other real-time results related to user search queries. This isn’t Google’s first move into real-time search, but it’s the biggest. In fact, Google is calling Realtime Search its most significant enhancement to date, serving up real-time results on its own page complete with new search tools.

Google launched real-time search features in December. At that time, the company worked to increase the relevance of search results by offering the freshest information on the web. Google’s goal was to bring real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources into search results.

Challenging Twitter

“On the new home page you’ll find some great tools to help you refine and understand your results. First, you can use geographic refinements to find updates and news near you, or in a region you specify. So if you’re traveling to Los Angeles this summer, you can check out tweets from Angelenos to get ideas for activities happening right where you are,” Google Product Manager Dylan Casey wrote in the Official Google Blog.

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Google has also added a conversations view to help searchers follow a discussion in real time on the web. This tops Twitter’s search capabilities. Casey pointed out that a single tweet can often spark a larger conversation of re-tweets and other replies, but users have to click through a bunch of links and figure out how it all fits together on their own.

“With the new ‘full conversation’ feature, you can browse the entire conversation in a single glance,” Casey wrote. “We organize the tweets from oldest to newest and indent so you quickly see how the conversation developed.”

Advanced Users Only

Google didn’t stop there. The search giant also added updated content to Google Alerts to make it easier to stay informed about a topic a searcher may be following. Essentially, searchers can create an alert specifically for updates to get an e-mail the moment a followed topic appears on Twitter or other short-form services. Searchers can also manage their e-mail volume by choosing to have alerts sent once a day or week. But analysts aren’t sure mainstream searchers will like Google Realtime Search.

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“Even though many consumers are interested in breaking news, sports scores, and so on, real-time search today is really for advanced users. And by giving real-time search its own site, Google can both experiment and provide a better experience for real-time search users,” said Greg Sterling, principal analyst for SterlingMarket Intelligence.

“While they remain on Google.com, the scrolling real-time content in search results was often an awkward thing and a distraction,” he added. “But the new site allows those who are interested and know how to use this data to more fully benefit from it without cluttering general search results — or as frequently.”

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[ad]Internet-based phone service is nothing new. Skype, which lets Americans talk to each other free and charges a couple of pennies per minute for long distance, began seven years ago. But on Wednesday, Google began introducing Internet phone service built into the interface of its Gmail service.

Google promotes it as a fallback feature for Gmail’s video chat system, in case the other party isn’t sitting in front of a computer waiting to have a video chat with you. But it’s not just for your video chat partners, if you even have any. It’s for anytime a phone call is the best way to communicate with someone else. Some people who would never accept a video chat request might take a phone call instead.

Here’s how it works: A new button on Gmail’s interface, Call Phones, opens a small window with a telephone-style keypad. There’s also a box into which you can type people’s names, to see if their phone number is in your Gmail address book. To use the phone feature, you first need to install a plug-in for your browser from Google. It works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, the Chrome browser from Google and Safari from Apple on Macs.

Google will use your computer’s built-in microphone and speakers, or a U.S.B. headset, to pick up your voice and to play the other party’s voice. (The headset works better than a computer’s built-in microphone, which makes a call sound as though it’s coming from a speakerphone.)

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Once you’ve installed the plug-in and configured your computer to use the correct audio gear, making the calls is as easy as dialing an old Princess phone. I’m glad Google didn’t clutter the keypad with all sorts of extra buttons and distractions.

The person you’re calling will see on his or her phone the caller ID 760-705-8888, which Google uses for all outbound calls unless you’re also using it’s Google Voice service and have a Google Voice number.

If you want to receive calls within Gmail, you’ll need to sign up with Google Voice, which is free. That gives you a Google-assigned number you can give out to others, so Google can handle your incoming calls. This may be an additional complexity you don’t want.

Like for Skype, Google’s prices are hard to beat. Calls within the United States and Canada are free. Calls to other countries average around 2 cents a minute. Google has posted its rates for each country. (It’s 77 cents a minute for calls to North Korea.)

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Sure, you could reach for your cellphone instead of dialing your browser. But my extensive use of Skype and smartphones has shown that most of the time an Internet phone call has better voice quality. People don’t ask me to repeat myself. There are sometimes annoying delays of up to four seconds between the time someone says something at one end and the time it pops out at the other end. These delays come from the Internet itself, which will make them hard for even Google to fix. And every now and then, Internet calls get dropped just as with a cellphone.

What’s in it for you? If you already use Skype and Gmail, you can move to having only one Web page and one address book that combines e-mail, IM-style chat and phone. It would be even more useful if Google would add a button in Gmail that would appear alongside every message: “Call Joe Smith now.” After all, it should be easy for Google, which already scans the text of your inbound messages to deliver more appropriate ads, to fish Joe’s phone number out of his e-mail signature.

Got a questions about Gmail, Facebook, or any other social technology? Post it in the comments and I’ll get an answer.

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[ad]India is apparently considering taking a bigger role in online security and demanding access to online communications: the leader of an Indian ISP association said yesterday that Indian telecommunications regulators have openly discussed requiring online services besides BlackBerry to provide the Indian government access to users communications. On regulators’ lists: VoIP operator Skype and Internet giant Google, along with other services.

Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers Association of India, said regulators discussed requiring access to communications on services other than BlackBerry at a meeting he attended roughly a month ago. Other reports indicate Indian authorities have been examining messaging services provided by the likes of Skype and Google for over a year.

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The Indian government has not yet made any statement on banning or requiring access to anything other than RIM’s BlackBerry service.

Yesterday India announced an August 31 deadline for shutting down BlackBerry services in the country, saying the services’ encrypted communications systems provide a mechanism for militants and terrorists to plan and carry out attacks. Under Indian law, ISPs can be required to give Indian law enforcement access to communications on their networks, including encryption keys necessary to decrypt communications. BlackBerry services use a paired encryption system that has no back door for RIM to decrypt messages without the key known only to the user; it also locates its services in the UK and North America, making the process of acquiring user communications difficult. RIM recently reached a compromise with Saudi Arabiathat apparently involved installing BlackBerry servers within its borders.

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RIM has not yet publicly commented on India’s looming ban on BlackBerry services, but reports have BlackBerry representatives meeting with Indian government officials and expressing optimism a ban can be avoided.

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