what's skype?

Answer 1

chatting with voice. it's free!


www.skype.com

p.s. mic required

p.p.s. they now have more advanced features making it more like a real phone [phone numbers and everything] but this costs money [low priced]

Answer 2

Skype (pronounced to rhyme with ripe) is a peer-to-peer internet telephony (VoIP) network, founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the creators of Kazaa. The network is provided by all combined users of the free desktop software application. Skype users can speak to other Skype users for free, call traditional telephone numbers for a fee (SkypeOut), receive calls from traditional phones (SkypeIn), and receive voicemail messages

Answer 3

It lets you make international and long-distance phone call for free. All you need to do is buy a mic for you computer and download the skype software thing. The person you call also needs to have skype and a mic.

Answer 4

Skype is a free voice over IP phone service (Voip). Kind of like the digital phone service that Road Runner and AT&T are offering only you use it through your computer instead of a stand-alone phone.

Answer 5

you buy a usb telephone at walmart that plugs in your computer by usb and you can talk to other people that have the skype service for whatever they charge a month for service. It can be used like a regular phone but you are talking through the internet, kinda like Vonage.

Answer 6

It's a program for making free calls over the internet.

Answer 7

A software to make phonecalls over the internet.

Answer 8

Free conversations. Talk, listen, watch, read, write to anyone, anywhere in the world without worrying about cost, distance or time.

http://skype.com/