How Linking Computers can Serve as Global Business Communication Tools

"Nikolai Pankratz with American Resource Network for Expert Village. Let's look at one program that I use all the time. And the reason that program - first of all, it's free. It's cheap. Anybody on the other side of the world that downloads that program - and again we don't want to advertise any company but I'm just giving you the tools that is going to make you successful and help you to make a good business of things. For example, there's a program you can download from the internet. It's called Skype. Now, Just like we started earlier; say, for example, that is Russia. Somebody sitting behind this computer in Russia and somebody sitting here, which is me, and we are communicating. He downloaded Skype, I downloaded Skype. And so we now can communicate for free. For free. I'm going to call my partner in Russia. My partner in Russia sees that I'm calling. Right there is my picture - it pops up on the screen - and answers. He's talking to me through a little tiny microphone that is connected. I'm hearing him on this speaker in America. You hear the echo simply because I'm close to each other. But he doesn't hear it. It's very clear. I'm talking to this microphone that is connected to my computer. And by the way, this is very handy because when I done I just pop it down, put it in, whatever. And talk to him."