two-twenty

pc phone home

The Swedes who invented KaZaA have just introduced Skype, a peer-to-peer application that allows users to make calls over their computers to anywhere in the world... free.

This should have come as fantastic, timely news to Joanna, who just last night used gphone's essentially identical services (tech-wise, anyway) to call her globetrotting photojournalist boyfriend Ash in Guadeloupe; free apparently costs almost twenty cents less than $0.197 a minute (vs. $2.86 on Verizon). Unfortunately, Skype only runs on Windows and Ash is the only one at two-twenty with a PC. Did we say he was in sunny Guadeloupe? Harumph. Anyway, Joanna and the rest of us Mac users will sadly have to keep paying for calls until someone even nerdier than two-twenty's geek-in-residence figures out how to get the app working on multiple platforms.