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New VOIP App. Profiled

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vaguely-useful dept.

sniggly writes "Cnet News.com has an interview with Kazaa co-founder Janus Friis about their latest product Skype. Skype is a p2p VOIP technology that quote '... is addressing all the problems of legacy VoIP solutions: bad sound quality, difficult to set up and configure, and the need for expensive, centralized infrastructure.' Windows only beta client available."

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  1. Hmm alternatives by Daath · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are several similar applications out there, the oldest I can remember off-hand is Speak Freely which does secure p2p.

    Right now we use Ventrilo internally at work - it's not secure, but we can do conferencing in super quality with VERY low bandwidth! It's excellent!

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