Skype close to launching PC to phone calling
I’ve used Skype only once I think. The concept is good, the problem is that Skype becomes yet another IM-like tool. I feel that I can keep only so many apps like this running on my machine at one time. I have three apps like this running right now :Convoq ASAP, Chatango, and Miranda (for AIM, Yahoo, and MSN), and I think that’s enough.
So for me Skype is going to be one of those once and a while tools. Like switching from e-mails going back and forth to IM, same thing e-mail to Skype or IM to Skype.
Skype Technologies SA, which offers software that allows users to make free phone calls over the Internet, said Friday that it is closer to launching a new prepay service in which users can make cheap calls to any phone around the world from their PCs.