Skype releases WiFi payment app
Internet communication company Skype has unveiled an app that allows users to pay for WiFi Internet at over one million locations, using credit on their Skype account, writes Stuff.co.nz.
The app, called Skype WiFi, is available on Apple's App Store. The service could also be accessed using the latest version of the software for laptop PCs.
“With Skype Credit, you only pay for the minutes you use,” the company wrote on its official blog. It says the service is a cost-effective way for travellers to get online without incurring data roaming charges.
IBM chip mimics human brain
Computers with processors that mimic the human brain's cognition, perception and action abilities are a lot closer than they have ever been after IBM yesterday unveiled the first generation of chips that will power them, says Cnet.
The announcement comes nearly three years after IBM and several university partners were awarded a grant by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The goal was to re-create the brain's perception, cognitive, sensation, interaction, and action abilities, while also simulating its efficient size and low-power consumption.
Zynga sued for patent infringement
Zynga, the maker of popular online games such as “FarmVille” and “CityVille”, is being sued for patent infringement by a Texas gaming start-up, notes the Associated Press.
Agincourt claims Zynga is violating two of its patents related to systems for redeeming prizes in games. The patents were awarded in 2001 and 2004.
Zynga has plans to offer an initial public offering of stock. About 230 million people every month play addictive Zynga games, much of the time through apps on Facebook.
Facebook riot inciters get four years
A Cheshire man, jailed for using Facebook to incite disorder during last week's riots in the UK, is to appeal his prison sentence, reports the BBC.
Jordan Blackshaw, from Marston, was jailed for four years at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday, along with Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, from Warrington.
Blackshaw's barrister said his 21-year-old client and his family were “somewhat shocked by the sentence”. The men both admitted encouraging crime in Northwich, although there were no outbreaks of disorder in the town.
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