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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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    Free TV channel aims for Internet content

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    People take photos with their camera phones as steam erupts from the site of an explosion at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 41st street in New York, July 18, 2007. All you need to launch your own television channel is a mobile phone with a camera, Finnish technology startup Floobs said on Thursday. REUTERS/Chip East

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - All you need to launch your own television channel is a mobile phone with a camera, Finnish technology startup Floobs said on Thursday.

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    Floobs plans to offer a free television channel for everyone, enabling people to run live shows or pre-recorded material, for no charge, starting later this year.

    The company opened a Finnish-language testing service this week and aims for a November launch of an English site, targeting groups and communities which do not get airtime on established television channels.

    "Our main target group is communities which already exist on the Internet," Joonas Pekkanen, co-founder of the firm, told Reuters.

    User-generated content on popular sites such as YouTube is proving to be the driver of Internet TV while forays into Web TV by established broadcasters and telecom operators have largely flopped in Europe.

    Pekkanen said the company aims to charge users for some professional broadcasting tools, while also selling advertising space.

    Floobs could also offer opportunities for so-called citizen-journalism, with live-video streams from any video phone. "If you see something interesting on the street you can start streaming in a few clicks," said Pekkanen.
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