Skype wishes you a Happy St. Patricks Day!

Skype is pinching rates to celebrate St. Patrick's Day!!!

On St. Patrick's Day (tomorrow, March 17) there will be a reduced SkypeOut rate of US$0.01 per minute for calls to Irish landlines!

Also, in other Skype news this week:

• 1) There is a SkypeOut price drop to Estonia mobile numbers. The current rate 0.250 and it's moving to 0.230 euros/minute.

§ New destinations included in the global rate (euro/minute)

• Estonia fixed: current rate 0.023 à 0.017

• Singapore fixed: current rate 0,025 à 0.017

• Singapore mobile: current rate 0.025 à 0.017

• South Korea fixed: current rate 0.020 à 0.017

• 2) Logitech is offering 200 QuickCam Fusion Web cams for a St. Patrick's Day prize drawing hosted on a Skype hub page on eBay at these URLs:

§ U.S.

http://pages.ebay.com/stpatricksday/skype/

§ Canada

http://pages.ebay.ca/stpatricksday/skype

§ Ireland

http://pages.ebay.ie/stpatricksday/skype

§ UK

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/buy/stpatrickspromo/skype

• 3) Logitech also has a "buy one, get one free" offer in the Skype Accessories Shop until March 19. When you buy a Logitech Communicate STX in the Skype Accessories Shop during this time, you will also get a Logitech QuickCam Express thrown in for free.

• 4) In addition, a voucher code for 10 minutes of SkypeOut calls has been included in an email to the eBay.ie (Ireland) community.

• 5) And, a 3 UK announcement the mobile media company, launching a datacard and a co-marketing agreement with Skype, which will allow 3 customers to access Skype through 3's datacard. With over 88% population coverage for 3G services, the datacard offers 3 customers faster wireless connectivity via a laptop in more places in the UK than any other network.

§ The 3 datacard enables access to a range of Internet services on the move from Internet browsing, Internet callingonline purchasing, secure access to banking and e-mail, access to client-based e-mail, chat, instant messaging, and corporate VPN connectivity.

§ Skype agreement - 3 has bundled a special starter pack provided by Skype with the "3G Quad" brand of datacard supplied by Option. The starter pack includes the Skype software, a Skype headset and a Skype starter voucher.