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Wednesday, July 21, 2004

“Brooke Partridge, HP’s market and business development director for emerging market solutions, told In.Tech last week that the company was ’currently investigating markets for the 441 … including South-East Asia [and] looks forward to expanding its availability in late 2004 and early 2005.’ ’[It] made business sense to make it commercially available.’ The company plans to market it in South Africa first, followed by other emerging markets.’”