For this holiday season, starting on Deceber 21st and ending on December 27th, Skype is giving away one free hour of WiFi access at more than 50 major airports in US. Holiday travelers may bide their time with their WiFi-capable devices within these airports, be it just a casual checking of emails, or browsing latest news at MobileMag. This being a gift from Skype naturally suggests these customers are also invited to use it for Skype calls and messaging, and probably participate in some type of data mining exercise.

Airports are usually quite crowded on holiday seasons, and this year holidays are certainly not an exception. There might be delayed flights due to bad weather condition or over bookings. People get simply stuck at the airports for hours on end. Servicing these crowds with free Skype video calls might become quite problematic for third party WiFi access airport vendors because of sudden avalanche of requests for connections.

Still, it’s nice to have a free present from Santa Skype even if its just a measly hour of online time.

[Ubergizmo via Skype]

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Amazon is debuting a new holiday shopping app that is geared towards kids. “Amazon Santa” is a free app for Android and iOS that allows children and their parents to create holiday Wish Lists to share with friends, family, and Santa Claus as well.

Essentially, the Amazon Santa app brings the e-commerce giant’s wish list capabilities to a kid-friendly app and is a great way to browse and search for more than 500,000 toys, games, books, and clothes. Kids can then make a a list to send to “Santa”, while also allowing parents to send the list to grandparents, friends, family, and keep a copy for themselves as well.

Parents can review and edit the list when needed and will also show items that have been purchased, similarly to a gift registry.

While not the most exciting app on the market, for those of us with children it could certainly be a useful tool. For those with younger kids, it can be a fun way to get them to “let Santa know what they want”, while giving you ideas as well.

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