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Wednesday, March 06, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-india-simputer.html 'Poor - Friendly' Simputer Set for May Rollout By REUTERS BANGALORE (Reuters) - A low-cost handheld computer developed by seven Indian engineers to take the Internet to rural masses will start rolling out in May, the head of a firm pioneering the project said. The ``Simputer,'' short for Simple, Inexpensive, Multilingual, is championed by its followers as a friend of the poor, but some of its supporters add that its features match cool and trendy handhelds like those built by Palm Inc....
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