the preferred way of connecting multiple offices and remote workers. 2. Free Phone Calls -- Over the past 10 years, these same cheap and fast Internet connections, along with a technology called VOIP (voice over Internet protocol), have emerged to all but destroy the old way in which telephone calls are placed. Using the Internet to make phone calls has become by far the cheapest way to talk to others around the world. Cutting out the middlemen and transmitting voice as far as possible over the Internet before connecting to a regular public switched telephone network connection (or PSTN) means the cost of calling abroad is now almost nothing. Calling people within the same VOIP network is free. Many people think making a VOIP call is just about using a headset with Skype, but there are many other Internet telephone systems around. You may not know it, but the telephones in your office may actually be connected directly to the Internet, even though they look like your standard office telephone. Alexander Graham Bell would be amazed. 3. Free Software -- The past decade has seen the rise of the free software movement, with software made absolutely for free and in the name of freedom. From Web servers running Linux and Apache to free office software such as Open Office and Star Office, there is no doubt that the free software movement has helped to change the world and the way we do business. Most websites are hosted on servers running