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Thursday, July 11, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/05/india.simputer.reut/index.html The Simputer should be available to consumers in India this month Reuters BANGALORE, India (Reuters) -- India is ready this month to roll out its $200 "Simputer," a handheld computer aimed at wooing the poor across the digital divide. "The waiting period is almost over. We are near the take-off stage," Vinay Deshpande, chairman of Encore Software Ltd., one of two firms with licenses to make the device, told Reuters late on Thursday. The Simputer -- short for simple, inexpensive and multilingual computer -- was launched in April 2001 by the non-profit Simputer Trust, formed by officials at Encore and professors from Bangalore's prestigious Indian Institute of Science to license designs of the device....
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