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Hello and welcome to my website, a catalogue my achievements and blogged IT Business essays. To find out more about me please read my about page and my essays below.
Cheers, Matthew.
Fennec, Mozilla's little fox
I am very excited about the Android linux mobile phone platform and the opportunity it would provide to handset owners and content distributors across the European 3G wireless plumbing.
I have previously comment on the viability of Skype as a call provider for your Android phone but what about surfing the internet across your 3G Android handset.
Skype and its subscriptions
There are many rummers floating around the cloud at the moment that Ebay is preparing to sell Skype and the mostly likely suitor is Google.
I have perviously written an article titled Google to buy Skype??? and pointed out that the purchase of Skype by Google could be a match made in heaven. The pairing of Google's Android mobile phone platform and the Skype phone service would provide a fantastic new dynamic to mobile communications.
I think that its only a matter of time before this pairing happens.
New Hotel Florida Spa
New Hotel Florida Spa is one of three websites for the Hotel Yaramar hotel chain in Fuengirola, Spain. The Hotel Yaramar chain includes New Hotel Florida, Hotel Yaramar and Hotel Angela. The site are green, blue and red respectively. The site has two languages, English and Spanish.
My involvement in this project has covered building the XHTML and CSS from designs produced by the senior designer at Andalucia Web Solutions, Stacy Prendeville. The site is a simple three column layout with header and footer. Like other projects I built the site using Dreamweaver and employed templates.
To see the site browse follow the link to http://www.hotel-florida.es.
Google to buy Skype???
Currently the rumour mill is going into over drive as articles and blog posts appear reporting Google negotiating the purchase of Skype from owner Ebay.
Previously I have written about phone operator Three and their Skype handset. See my article titled, The converging worlds of Internet Services and Mobile Phone Networks.
The Interesting point about the Google acquiring Skype will be the integration of Skype into the Android mobile handset platform. This could provide create distribution and market penetration of the Skype application into different social groups if the program where packaged with Android handsets.
RSS... Whats that?
What is RSS? Well it stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a family of languages used to publish alerts for internet users of new blogs, podcasts and news items on web sites.
The story of RSS can be traced back with the aid of Wikipedia to the year of 1995 which at its start centres around Ramanathan V. Guha and the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computers. This team produced the Meta Content Framework or simply MCF. MCF was a specification for structuring metadata information about web sites and other data, and basis of Project X aka Hot Sauce a 3D fly through visualisation of the web.