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NEW YORK – T-Mobile army is doing something extraordinary for a sound company: sanctioning liberated calls on computers between Facebook friends.

T-Mobile free a series of code add-ons for the most favourite browsers Tuesday. Once installed, a sound picture appears beside apiece name in the chitchat country of the user's Facebook page. Clicking the picture places a call through the cyberspace connection.

Only the speaker needs to hit the code installed for the call to go through, but both participants need to be logged in to Facebook and hit headsets or microphones and speakers.

The code add-ons are branded "Bobsled by T-Mobile." The consort plans to use the sort for other Internet-calling features, much as sound apps that can place calls directly to Facebook friends.

Brad Duea, T-Mobile USA's senior evilness chair of marketing, says the saucer of "Bobsled" is to put T-Mobile's sort in front of more people. (That sort haw go absent in a assemblage or digit anyway, as AT&T Inc. seeks restrictive approval to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion.)

T-Mobile could also add business or move charging for calls from PCs to phones.

Smaller companies hit offered cyberspace occupation with different degrees of combining with Facebook. T-Mobile USA, which doesn't possess some customary sound lines in the U.S., also sold customary cyberspace occupation devices for a some years. They worked with lawful bag phones instead of PCs.

For Facebook calling, T-Mobile is using backend technology from Vivox Inc., which provides vocalise communications for individual online games, including "Star Wars Galaxies."

The "Bobsled" code has been acquirable for a some months as T-Mobile and Vivox proven them discover low the "Vring" name. The unification to T-Mobile was secret.

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