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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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    Telefonica to sell iPhone in Spain this year

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    Wed Jun 4, 2008 5:21am EDT

    MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish telecoms company Telefonica will start selling Apple's popular iPhone in Spain this year, it said on Wednesday.

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    Telefonica's mobile unit O2 has been selling the iPhone -- a touch-screen device combining the iPod music player, videos and Internet -- in Britain since last November.

    At the end of March, Telefonica had 23 million mobile phone clients in Spain, where it is the leading phone company by a long way.

    "The phone should go on sale before the summer," a sector source said, adding that Telefonica should have exclusivity as its two main rivals Vodafone and Orange have already said they will not sell the phone in Spain.

    Apple started selling the iPhone in exclusive agreements with companies like AT&T in the United States and O2 in Britain but in Italy has broken that model, selling both via Telecom Italia and Vodafone.

    (Reporting by Robert Hetz; Writing by Jane Barrett; Editing by Erica Billingham)
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