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Who have we worked with?Our major client has been the Australian Labor Party where Dr Dennis Perry is the Chief Information Officer. This position requires travel to all State ALP Branch offices from time to time, plus strategic responsibility for the ALP websites. Where time permits, we have worked with other bodies including: Alinghi Australian Computer Society, Victorian Branch BHP Billiton Commonwealth Government departments CSIRO Municipal Association of Victoria RMIT What are we working on now?The future to us is secure unwired access to secure, reliable and available networks. Just as tekniche was an earlier advocate and adopter of TCP/IP and the Ethernet network - remember there was IPX and NETBEUI, and Token Ring, not mention the OSI way of doing things - we are now working with unwired systems. We have always seen accessing the World Wide Web as a search for information, NOT as a small TV screen on which graphic designers and advertisers can display their skill, or otherwise, in a rich graphical environment. Not surprisingly, we have always largely agreed with Jakob Neilsen and Gerry McGovern as to what the Web is really all about. Starting with an HP-100LX and a Radio Mail wireless PC Card in 1995, we have maintained our interest in personal digital assistants (PDAs) with the capacity to access the Internet. The problem has always been the speed and reliability of the wireless connection, not to mention the cost of data traffic. While we had one of the first Compaq iPAQ 3600 PDAs in Australia, we never found a satisfactory wireless solution. Carrying a 1G or 2G mobile phone and a PDA always seemed a poor solution remote wireless access. In 2003, we are seeing 3G (W-CDMA) mobile phone solutions that address the speed issue, but manage to obscure the problem of affordable high-speed data access by offering us "Party" phones: the ability to send pictures and have video conferences on a "Smartphone". Folks, it's all about communications and the cost of effective communications: SMS text messages are enormously popular and very affordable. The previous comment was put into context, by reading that Finland's Prime Minister has a voicemail message on his phone that says "Send me an SMS". He apparently dumped a girl friend via SMS too. On the other hand, ex-PM Tony Blair sent his first SMS in 2008. The 3G Smartphones we are investing some time and energy investigating are the Palm-based CDMA2001x Kyocera 7135 and an as yet unspecified GSM/GPRS/EDGE Windows Pocket PC Phone system, once Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 is released, and EDGE is available. Telstra changed the rules in Australia in October 2006 with the announcements of the birth of the NextG Network (GSM UTS) and the imminent death of the CDMA network. These announcements seriously changed the nature of the players in the mobile space. The mobile of choice for tekniche in 2008 is the HTC Hermes, aka Telstra i-mate JasJam. We have played with some of the xda-developer images - the Black series - but now have the official Telstra WM6 version running.
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