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Click Online News Magazine 16.02.04 (BBCNews24) close X This weeks Hi Tech features include: -Reports from Finlands Latest Mobile Technology Mobile Hunt Patients who volunteer to trial new drugs often have to fill out daily questionnaires. How was the pain today? Has the drug made a difference? And sadly, when people have busy schedules this paperwork can often be forgotten. This leads to something trial coordinators call 'parking-lot syndrome'. Petri Rahja, Chief Technology Officer, CRF: "People, when they go to see the doctor, start to fill out the questionnaires in the parking lot, trying to remember what they have done for the past two weeks." Mobile Medic Patients who volunteer to trial new drugs often have to fill out daily questionnaires. How was the pain today? Has the drug made a difference? And sadly, when people have busy schedules this paperwork can often be forgotten. This leads to something trial coordinators call 'parking-lot syndrome'. Petri Rahja, Chief Technology Officer, CRF: "People, when they go to see the doctor, start to fill out the questionnaires in the parking lot, trying to remember what they have done for the past two weeks." Mobile Help If you feel you're coming under threat, mobile and positioning technology combine to provide a crucial security function. We attended a reconstruction in which a woman locks up a supermarket after a day at work, only to find she's accosted by a gang of youths. Unable to run, and with no immediate help at hand, technology fills the void. She pulls a mobile out of her pocket. In this situation she is clearly unable to make a distress call so it wouldn't ordinarily be much good, but hers is no ordinary phone. This one is equipped with GPS, which means that with one press of the panic button she can call for help. Interview: Nokia Chief Executive Jorma Ollila Mobile culture has evolved over the past two decades, and it is not entirely unconnected to the fortunes of one company: Nokia, an enterprise which began 140 years ago processing rubber, but which has grown so rapidly over the last two decades it's now a telecommunications giant. The man widely credited with its transformation is Chief Executive and chairman Jorma Ollila. Previously an economist, and head of the company's mobile phone division, the 53 year old took over the reigns twelve years ago. He set about transforming Nokia from an unfocussed conglomerate into a company dedicated to staking a claim in the exploding mobile market. One in three mobile phone users around the world own a Nokia handset, making the company not just a remarkable Finnish success story and national institution, but also a world leader in mobile phone manufacturing. In a rare interview the Chairman and CEO gave us his thoughts on how Nokia achieved such a formidable market share.

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