SanDisk flash drives enable talk on Skype

SanDisk said Monday its begun shipping USB drives to retail stores preinstalled with Skype's VoIP software.

Plug earphones with microphone and the SanDisk drive into a PC. A phone keypad pops up on the PC's screen allowing consumers to make free PC-to-PC calls to Skype users in most major markets.

On the SanDisk drives, consumers will find a bundle of four applications that consumes about 40 MB of storage space on either the Cruzer Micro or the Titanium flash drives. Aside from Skype, the drives include a password-protected synchronisation tool, antivirus software, and password manager application that can remember passwords for online trading and banking.
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