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Call Mom for Free on Mother's Day

by Joshua Fruhlinger on May 1, 2007 at 11:03 AM

SkypeNo more excuses - this year you have to call your mom on Mother's Day. Why? It's free! Skype and Intel are putting on the "Mother's Day Gift of Gab" promotion from May 13 to 14. For a complete 24 hours, you can make free calls on the SkypeOut service, which allows you to call any phone (except 900 and other premium numbers) in the US and Canada, Skype or not. This is a good thing, as we imagine many moms aren't Skype'ing quite yet.

Skype's tagline for the promotion is "Call Mom first. Then go crazy," which implies that you'll be able to go bonkers with free calls all day. Don't go too crazy, though -- the fine print says that customers are limited to 200 minutes of calls total per computer during the offer period. Teenage girls worldwide sigh in unison.

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