The document discusses video conferencing and the communication tool Skype, describing Skype as software that allows free video and voice calls between users and its growth in popularity. Skype's success is attributed to providing an easy to use and free communication option at a time when internet calling was still developing. The document also outlines ways Skype can be used for business communications and in education settings.

1. TECHNOLOGY ENABLED COMMUNICATION
PRESENTED BY:-
SURAJEET SINGH
SUNIL KUMAR GUPTA
SUMIT KUMAR MAURYA
VIKASH SINGH

2. WHAT IS VIDEO CONFERENCING?
 Interactive telecommunication technology
 Conference between two or more participants
at different sites by transmitting audio and
video data
 Tools: Video camera, microphone, speakers on
device

3. Skype Introduction
• Software that enables the world's conversations.
• Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype
to make free video and voice calls, send instant
messages and share files with other Skype users.
• Everyday, people also use Skype to make low-cost
calls to landlines and mobiles

4. Skype is a communications tool
• Humans are really, really, interested in things
that help us communicate with each other
more and better.
• From cave paintings to mobile phones, it’s
always the same.
• And this is even more true for young people.
They are forging their social identity through
conversation.

5. Skype is free
 Free is quite interesting to people. Especially
free and good.
 And it’s more interesting still to impoverished
young people!
 If you tell your friends to get Skype too, you
can talk for as long as you like without
worrying about the cost or the distance.

6. Skype’s success
• 0 to customers in 2.5 years.
• Nearly 200 million customers today.
• Still growing at 200,000 new users every day.

7. Right idea, right time
• There was plenty of internet calling software
before Skype. But it didn’t work very well, and
lots of people still had slow dial-up internet
connections.
• It’s a very ‘native’ product for young people.

8. Simple and easy
• Skype worked really hard on making Skype as
easy to install and use as possible.
• We knew it was easy enough when Geoffrey’s
grandma could use it. (Geoffrey is one of the
original Skypers.)
• Ease of use is important for busy young people
too. Hence the iPod, people moving to
Facebook…

9. • Skype feels free
• Skype is free. More than that though, it feels
free.
• Free helps people realise that Skype is a
different kind of company.
• We took something that big companies
charged quite a lot for, and gave it to you for
free. Nice, eh?

11. SKYPE
 Software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over
the Internet
 Initial names: “Sky peer-to-peer” and was abbreviated to “Skyper”
 Since the domain name was taken, the creators dropped the “r” and left the
current title “Skype”
 Special features:
 Conference Calls with multiple people
 Send Files instantly
 Connect to your land line
 Get your calls forwarded when you’re offline
 Send Text from skype
 Incoming calls from anyone
 Great for individuals and businesses
 Affordable
 Free: Both users having Skype accounts
 Pay as you go or Monthly payment
 Calls to landlines and call phones

12. TOP 3 VIDEO CONFERENCING SITES
 iChat
 Must have Mac computer
 expensive
 2009: est. 12%
 Most businesses use PC
 Google Talk
 Both parties have to have gmail account
 Skype

13. SKYPE IN A BUSINESS ASPECT
 Great way to communicate in real time
 A way to communicate without physically being there
 Can work anywhere at anytime
 Better communication
 Less errors: everyone can look at the document at the same time and
communicate
 Changes are visible
 Deal with off shore clients
 Establish and maintain business relationships
 Improves Customer service

14. Skype and Education
 Video conferencing with authors
 Tutor session
 Language tutor around the world
 Study sessions
 Great way to Q & A with teachers and T.As