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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness.   REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    India, RIM meet again, no details on BlackBerry

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    Thu May 29, 2008 10:05am EDT
    A journalist looks at her Blackberry communication device on Capitol Hill in Washington in this April 18, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Jim Young/Files

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion met Indian officials on Thursday over the government's security concerns, two sources in the know of the matter said, but there was no official statement.

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    India's security agencies have said the BlackBerry e-mail device posed a risk as the mails could not be traced or intercepted.

    Two officials from the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi were also seen at the headquarters of the telecoms ministry on Thursday.

    "There was a meeting, that is for sure," one source said. Another source also confirmed, but both were not present at the meeting and could not comment on any development.

    Media reports have said Canadian High Commission officials have been attending RIM's meetings with the Indian government to resolve this issue.

    Indian Telecoms Minister Andimuthu Raja said last week the Canadian firm had assured the government to provide a solution in two months.

    But last Friday, Research In Motion said in a customer update that the company does not have a copy of the customer's encryption key and would "simply be unable to accommodate" any such request.

    (Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Ranjit Gangadharan)



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