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Video Conferencing

            You use telephones and mobiles to talk to your friends and relatives. With the advancement in
            technology, you can now see the person with whom you are talking. This technique of watching
            the person while talking to him is called video conferencing. In video conferencing, there can
            be more than two persons at different locations simultaneously talking to each other by both
            audio as well as video. For video conferencing, you should be connected to Internet. In addition
            to Internet, you need to have a webcam and a microphone connected to your computer / laptop.
            Most of the online chat service providers give facility of video chat and video conference. There
            are software also available which allow you to do video conferencing. Some popular software are
            iCall, TrueConf, Meetings.io, etc.
            Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)
            Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology which gives calling facility over the Internet.
            It is basically used for voice communications over networks like Internet.

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              The first VoIP service was developed in 1973 by Danny Cohen. He named this service as
              Network Voice Protocol (NVP). The commercial use of VoIP started as late as 2004.

            VoIP is an Internet based telephone service which is also used to transfer voice, fax, SMS and
            voice  messaging.  VoIP is available  on  smart  phones,  personal  computers,  laptops  and  other
            hardware devices that can access Internet. The most common and popular VoIP services used in
            India are Skype and Telegram.
            To use VoIP service of Skype, follow these steps:

            Step 1   Download the Skype from the www.skype.com website and
                     install it on your computer.
            Step 2  Double click on Skype icon to start Skype.

            Step 3   Click on Sign in or Create button to create an account on
                     Skype. The Sign in screen appears.
            Step 4   Click on Create one! link. The Create account screen appears.

            Step 5   Enter your email and click on Next button.
            Step 6   Enter a password and click on Next button.
            Step 7   The Skype asks you about your personal details such as you           Creating an account on

                     name and it also asks to upload your photo. Then, click on                   Skype
                     Continue button.
            Step 8   Skype further asks you for checking your microphone and webcam. Click
                     on Continue button each time. The Skype Welcome screen opens.                Contact button

            Step 9  Click on Contacts tab to add your contacts to the Skype account.
            Step 10  Click on Contact button to open Add a new contact dialog box.





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