30 September 2005
Voiceover Internet Protocol (VoIP) service provider Skype has released a new technology that makes it easier than ever before to join Skype.
Skype Technologies released Skype Windows version 1.4, which adds several important new free and paid services features.
With the new technology, a new free call-forwarding feature is added, which Skype said 83 per cent of its Beta test users found easy to use.
Skype also said the new Skype for Windows package makes it easier for callers to add instant messaging, group chats conference calls, file transfers, voicemail, and wireless access.
In particular, new feature Personalise Skype permits users to add original pictures, sounds, and ringtones when they make home telephone calls.
The firm's announcement also said that Skype was the preferred technology for making international home telephone calls, simply because it is so cheap: "Skype callers are more international with 85 percent communicating with people living abroad.
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