What is Skype?
Basically, Skype is a provider of telephony services over the Internet, better known as VoiP or Voice Over IP, service that offers the possibility to make free calls between computers and low-cost to-dial telephones calls that are not connected to the Internet. Also, using Skype you can perform file transfers, send text messages, establish videoconferencing and a range of benefits which are useful for our daily work.
Skype is also available in versions for most important desktop and laptop operating systems such as Windows, Linux or Mac OS, however does not neglect his presence on mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, where it is available for Symbian, Windows Phone, Android and iOS, among others, which gives you flexibility of use rather than interesting.
Skype is a development of a team of engineers led by a Danish surname Friis and a Swedish surname Zennström, who already had a huge success with the creation of the legendary Kazaa, a download manager based on the network P2P (see internetDict). However, Skype now belongs to Microsoft, a company that maybe has catapulted him to the top of the top of the VoiP applications, thanks to constant investment in their development to improve their code and capabilities.
Some of the benefits offered by Skype, in addition to of course the calls free and low-cost is a configuration and use simple and hassle-free, and also with one of the best qualities of audio and video that can be found in the market.
But if you doubt the most important feature of Skype is that it allows us to communicate completely free with other users that have installed Skype on their devices, both fixed and mobile.
However, we can not only communicate with other users of Skype, since we can also do it with other users who do not have the service, but this service we will have to pay a fee, which is really is quite reduced, depending on the geographic location in which our partner is.
Within the range of possibilities offered by Skype to enjoy, the application incorporates all the necessary support so that we can have updates to Facebook directly on the screen of Skype, a feature that “always connected” appreciate.
But this feature is not only here, since we can also perform instant messages, check the wall, update our status and make video calls with your contacts and Facebook friends, all directly from the screen of Skype, i.e. without having open also the Facebook app, What does not save a little battery and memory , something very interesting for portable devices like notebooks, smartphones and tablets.