Skype Video Beta 2.0.0.63

Released on 20th December the new version of Skype™, introducing the videocall, the version number is 2.0.0.63 and in a short time, after the regular tests and bugfixes, it will be released in definitive way.
Download available on the Skype™ Website.

A Cordless for Skype™

Its name is Skype™ DualPhone and for now it is the official cordless phone Skype™ certified; It is called DualPhone because it not work just with Skype™ and VoIP calls connected to your computer, but it can be also connected to traditional phone line, allowing you to make and receive normal calls.
The incoming calls are received both from computer and traditional phone line, it is possible to assign different ring tone to the incoming calls, to distinguish the kind of the call (VoIP or normal call).
On the LCD display are showed your Skype™ contacts and some various infos.

A new VoIP software by Parla.it, ParlaCom

Parla.it is offering in a free beta version and with 1 hour of free calls to mobile phones and landlines phones, ParlaCom is available on the website www.parlacom.it, it's a new software quite similar to Skype™, but with lower rates, for example to call in Italy from your computer to a landline phone we spend 0,018 euros tax included and 0,18 euros to a mobile phone, Skype™ rates now are 0,020 euros to landline phone and 0,25 euros to mobile phone.
ParlaCom also offer the way to make VideoCalls, at the condition that you have a WebCam installed.
The calls from computer to computer are totally free, it is possible to buy credit ParlaCom Out to make normal calls to all kind of phones.
The firsts that download this software gets 1 hour of free calls, in fact just 1.000.000 minutes are free in total.

Skype™ become also Videocall!

It's available on the Skype™ website the 2.0 beta version of the famous software to make phone calls by Internet, with the videocall add-on.
It is necessary a WebCam or a hardware that allow you to acquire video from an external source.
N.B.: the 2.0 beta version of Skype™ is available for now just for the Microsoft® Windows OS.