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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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    Hungary competition authority raids Microsoft office

    BUDAPEST
    Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:46am EDT

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    BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's competition authority (GVH) said it had raided Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Hungarian subsidiary because it suspected the firm had abused its market power when dealing with software distributors.

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    "The competition authority on July 19 carried out an inspection on site without previous warning at Microsoft Magyarorszag Kft," the GVH said on its Web site.

    "The GVH sensed that (Microsoft) likely applied a system of conditions and benefits -- rewards for loyalty -- for the most significant software distributors which gave no incentive to these distributors in selling other products competing with Microsoft Office software," it added.

    If proven, such conduct could be against European Union competition law, the GVH said.

    Microsoft Magyarorszag was not immediately available for comment.
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