Riversource Investments Chief Market Strategist David Joy prefers markets in the Pacific Rim and in South America.

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"Indonesia is very important for RIM, " Hastings Singh, the managing director of RIM's South Asia operations, tells the BBC.

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Places like China, South Africa and the Pacific rim countries, particularly, will adopt the technology eventually, so we could be faced with the prospect of importing fruit into this country in 10 or 20 years' time.

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However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.

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"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.

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As in 2003, the best results have been achieved by Pacific rim countries, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei and South Korea.

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The danger, it is now assumed, lies in what Pentagon officials call an "arc of instability" that runs through the Caribbean Rim, Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and North Korea.

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Another pipe would extend to the port of Ilo, further south, a centre for mining activity, which could be the export terminal for markets on the Pacific rim.

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