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I don't usually put on lipstick before making a phone call, but this time was different. I was placing my first video phone call over the Internet. Although video chatting online has been possible for years, it hasn't been very practical. That's because most people used dial-up modems, which don't have enough bandwidth to transmit video well. But now that more than a third of all Internet users have DSL or cable-modem connections, online video quality is finally up to snuff, if not exactly Emmy worthy. There's also a low-cost program that makes video chatting simpler than ever....

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