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TIME Europe Home   Europe   Middle East   Africa   World   Digital Europe   Business   Travel & Arts   Photo Essays   TIME Trails   Magazine   Archive   Fast Forward Special Features   Fast Forward   Forecast 2001   E-Europe Search TIME Europe   Subscribe to TIME Subscriber Services About Us TIME Daily TIME Asia TIME Canada TIME Pacific TIME Digital Latest CNN News FREE NEWSLETTER! Sign up now for TIME's WorldWatch email newsletter. [ preview ]   Check the New 2000 FORTUNE 500 Today! FORTUNE.com Sivy On Stocks, By E-Mail MONEY.com The 'X-Men' Cometh And EW's Got 'Em! ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY			24. Olli Martikainen Necsom Job description: Research director Age, Nationality: 46, Finnish Web address: www.necsom.com Martikainen has always been ahead of his time. Working at VTT, a research institute in Espoo, Finland, he developed a router that streams data from one computer to another. That was in 1982, four years before Cisco commercialized similar technology. At Nokia (1985-88), he was a pioneer of gsm technology. Now a professor of telecom architectures at the Helsinki University of Technology, Martikainen is working on fourth-generation wireless services before the third generation is even introduced. Necsom, a firm he created four years ago, makes routers to manage streaming media, while his Mobile Internet Communications Services develops fourth-generation services to run on Necsom¹s hardware. The vision thing: "Efficient methods and tools for context-sensitive customer and service management are a research and development area that will enable new mobile and wireless Internet services." Forward spin: Fourth-generation services are still far off, but Martikainen plans a trial in Finland next year. The A-List TIME Digital table of contents TIME Europe home E-mail us at mail@timeatlantic.com PHOTO: Matt Bjorkman — Lehtikuva for TIME The A-List 1. PHILIPPE BRAWERMAN Reef 2. JORMA OLLILA Nokia 3. KEIJI TACHIKAWA NTT DoCoMo 4. ANDREAS SCHMIDT Bertelsmann 5. CHRIS GENT Vodafone Airtouch 6. STEPHAN SCHAMBACH Intershop 7. COLLY MYERS Symbian 8. ROBIN SAXBY ARM Holdings 9. LARS RAMQVIST Ericsson 10. HJALMAR WINBLADH Microsoft 11. STEFAN ROEVER Brokat 12. MARK SCHNEIDER UPC 13. LYNN FORESTER FirstMark Communications 14. HANS SNOOK Orange 15. ALEX VIEUX Dasar 16. ANTOINE SCHWARTZ Goldman Sachs 17. JEAN-PASCAL TRANIÉ Viventures 18. HERMANN HAUSER Amadeus Capital Partners 19. JULIE MEYER First Tuesday 20. JUAN ROURE IESE 21. MIKE LYNCH Autonomy 22. BRIAN LONG Parthus Technologies 23. PAUL ZWILLENBERG KPE 24. OLLI MARTIKAINEN Necsom 25. JOHN HODGSON Cambridge Silicon Radio WHAT DO YOU THINK? E-mail us at mail@timeatlantic.com Copyright © 2001 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. E-mail us:  Letter to the Editor | Customer Service Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Press Releases