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Skype is upgrading its popular Internet telephone service to add video calling and a toolbar for Microsoft Outlook to find and dial contacts with a click.

The long-promised “2.0″ edition was launched Thursday by Skype, which was acquired last month by Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. for an eye-popping $2.6 billion.

The video feature will not cost extra, so Skype’s trademark computer-to-computer calls will remain free (Fees apply to calls to traditional and cell phones).

Users would need to attach a digital camera to their computers, though some laptops hitting the market have built-in cameras. To that end, Skype also announced partnerships to sell webcams made by Logitech International SA and Creative Labs Inc.

The new edition of Skype also features a new search box to type in names or numbers and pull up matching entries in the user’s address book, as well as an installable toobar to perform the same function within the Outlook e-mail program from Microsoft Corp.

News Source: Yahoo News

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