Once in awhile, I have found the newer isn’t necessarily better. The best example that I can think of is my phone system - a BizFon 680. As a small business person, I have a home based office with three incoming phone lines. Like many entrepreneurs, I turned to my local phone company for help. The company, Verizon, offers a Centrex system that allows call forwarding, caller ID, call rollover and so on. I simply plug in my phones and its done. That was fine for awhile but it was a clumsy system. Transfering calls was a pain, I couldn’t create vioce mail boxes for my co-workers and it was a pain to forward calls to my cell phone. I did a bit of searching on the net and found a number of PBX systems. However, many were really expensive ($5000 and up).

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Today I want to talk about Skype, the Internet (IP) based technology for making free (or cheap) phone calls around the globe.

Skype has been around awhile, in the technology sense. While many of you are at least familiar with Skype, if not already using this service, many of you are not.

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