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Prie ko cia tas "Skype" ?
It is quite probable that, at this moment, you
have never heard of the brand Skype and nor
have you formed any opinion one way or the
other on the subject of VoIP. May I be the first
to tell you that by this time next year you will
almost certainly have views on both. VoIP
stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol. It
means using internet-connected PCs with a callcentre
style headset to carry hifi quality
telephone conversations for free – something
that has been do-able for yonks, but practiced
only by tech-head engineers.
Skype is an ambitious new company
hoping to bring VoIP to a non-expert market in
co-operation with the headset manufacturer
Plantronics.
Plantronics recently insisted on subjecting a
bunch of us technology reporters to the
indecently luxurious reception at a five-star
hotel in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat to introduce
Skype to us. It is a deeply European outfit, in
both the best and worst senses. Developed by a
programming team in Estonia, invented by a
Swede and a Dane, and headquartered in
Luxembourg, with personnel in both London
and Tallinn, Skype has quite possibly the most
disastrous logo and website in history
accompanied, appropriately, by a slogan so
catastrophic that I don't believe it would even be
allowed as an entry in the European Song
Contest: "Skype is Free Internet Telephony that
Just Works."
Well, the reason we needed to go to Saint
Jean Cap Ferrat, it appears, was to demonstrate
that far from "just work", Skype, whose product
is a free downloadable piece of software by the
same name, really works rather well. That, at
any rate, was the conclusion I drew from having
a long and entirely uninteresting conversation –
but gratis and of the highest audio quality –
from France to somebody I didn't know in
Swindon.
At the time of writing, Skype can only be
used to contact other Skype users, who
apparently number over 6m people in 70
countries, but even if that number exists, you
can be sure that you don't know any of them.
When you read this, however, you will be
able to use the "SkypeOut" feature of the
software, which will make it possible to call
internet-connected landlines and mobile
phones worldwide for anything between
nothing and fractions of a penny a minute.
Now, the prospect of effectively free
worldwide voice communication is, I have to
say, one that slightly gives me the heebiejeebies.
A little 1950s bit of me thinks the
proper place for the telephonic instrument is
in a freezing hallway and that all
conversations thereon should be kept to a
strict, wartime minimum. I also have an
ageist prejudice that the young talk far too
much these days.
Skype also offers a plethora of other
potential nasties, to my mind. One is that you
are able to conference up to five callers in one
Skype conversation. When I translate that to
my house, it means my teenage daughter and
four of her friends (who range from Surbiton
to LA to Cyprus) yakking all night when they
really should be doing their homework.
On the other hand, were I a company
financial director, I would be getting very
excited indeed about Skype. We were told in
Cap Ferrat about one engineering firm based
in the Midlands which used VoIP to keep a
24-hour open line to its factory in Taiwan,
thereby saving thousands of pounds in
telephone costs, while increasing efficiency.
Other corporations are, apparently, using
VoIP routinely and saving up to 90 per cent
on their telephone bills.
No wonder then, perhaps, that the
chairman of the US Federal Communications
Commission has been quoted as saying: "I
knew it was over when I downloaded Skype.
When the inventors are distributing for free a
little program you can use to talk to anybody
else, and the quality is fantastic, and it's free –
it's over. The world will change now,
inevitably."
Adapted from the Financial Times
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Parašė kaunazReady, headset, go… telephone chats are now free, says Jonathan Margolis
It is quite probable that, at this moment, you
have never heard of the brand Skype and nor
have you formed any opinion one way or the
other on the subject of VoIP. May I be the first
to tell you that by this time next year you will
almost certainly have views on both. VoIP
stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol. It
means using internet-connected PCs with a callcentre
style headset to carry hifi quality
telephone conversations for free – something
that has been do-able for yonks, but practiced
only by tech-head engineers.
Skype is an ambitious new company
hoping to bring VoIP to a non-expert market in
co-operation with the headset manufacturer
Plantronics.
Plantronics recently insisted on subjecting a
bunch of us technology reporters to the
indecently luxurious reception at a five-star
hotel in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat to introduce
Skype to us. It is a deeply European outfit, in
both the best and worst senses. Developed by a
programming team in Estonia, invented by a
Swede and a Dane, and headquartered in
Luxembourg, with personnel in both London
and Tallinn, Skype has quite possibly the most
disastrous logo and website in history
accompanied, appropriately, by a slogan so
catastrophic that I don't believe it would even be
allowed as an entry in the European Song
Contest: "Skype is Free Internet Telephony that
Just Works."
Well, the reason we needed to go to Saint
Jean Cap Ferrat, it appears, was to demonstrate
that far from "just work", Skype, whose product
is a free downloadable piece of software by the
same name, really works rather well. That, at
any rate, was the conclusion I drew from having
a long and entirely uninteresting conversation –
but gratis and of the highest audio quality –
from France to somebody I didn't know in
Swindon.
At the time of writing, Skype can only be
used to contact other Skype users, who
apparently number over 6m people in 70
countries, but even if that number exists, you
can be sure that you don't know any of them.
When you read this, however, you will be
able to use the "SkypeOut" feature of the
software, which will make it possible to call
internet-connected landlines and mobile
phones worldwide for anything between
nothing and fractions of a penny a minute.
Now, the prospect of effectively free
worldwide voice communication is, I have to
say, one that slightly gives me the heebiejeebies.
A little 1950s bit of me thinks the
proper place for the telephonic instrument is
in a freezing hallway and that all
conversations thereon should be kept to a
strict, wartime minimum. I also have an
ageist prejudice that the young talk far too
much these days.
Skype also offers a plethora of other
potential nasties, to my mind. One is that you
are able to conference up to five callers in one
Skype conversation. When I translate that to
my house, it means my teenage daughter and
four of her friends (who range from Surbiton
to LA to Cyprus) yakking all night when they
really should be doing their homework.
On the other hand, were I a company
financial director, I would be getting very
excited indeed about Skype. We were told in
Cap Ferrat about one engineering firm based
in the Midlands which used VoIP to keep a
24-hour open line to its factory in Taiwan,
thereby saving thousands of pounds in
telephone costs, while increasing efficiency.
Other corporations are, apparently, using
VoIP routinely and saving up to 90 per cent
on their telephone bills.
No wonder then, perhaps, that the
chairman of the US Federal Communications
Commission has been quoted as saying: "I
knew it was over when I downloaded Skype.
When the inventors are distributing for free a
little program you can use to talk to anybody
else, and the quality is fantastic, and it's free –
it's over. The world will change now,
inevitably."
Adapted from the Financial TimesMano galerija Flickr'yje
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Sveiki.Čia gal nelabai i tema,bet visgi kažkiek asocijuojasi su technologijomis.Klaipėdoje yra kuriamas naujas radijas "Kissfm Lietuva" kol kas transliacija prasidės tik internetu vėliau jei išpopulerės bus transliuojama ir per fm.Radijas įsikurs Klaipėdos Laivininkų mokykloje ir taps mokyklos radijumi,kuom lietuvoje mokyklos radijų trūksta.Jau yra gautas mokyklos pavaduotojo sutikimas dar reikia gauti direktoriaus sutikimą.Beje ta radija kuriu AŠ.
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Parašė FM'asSveiki.Čia gal nelabai i tema,bet visgi kažkiek asocijuojasi su technologijomis.Klaipėdoje yra kuriamas naujas radijas "Kissfm Lietuva" kol kas transliacija prasidės tik internetu vėliau jei išpopulerės bus transliuojama ir per fm.Radijas įsikurs Klaipėdos Laivininkų mokykloje ir taps mokyklos radijumi,kuom lietuvoje mokyklos radijų trūksta.Jau yra gautas mokyklos pavaduotojo sutikimas dar reikia gauti direktoriaus sutikimą.Beje ta radija kuriu AŠ.
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Parašė FM'asna aš ant prikolo norėjau parašyt taip.Aš mokausi toje mokykloje ir man mintis kilos šį radija kurti.Ji transliuos tik Šokių muzika jokio pop ir kitų stiliu nebent koki dar transliuos 80 metų dance muzika.
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