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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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    Apple and Orange at odds over iPhone deal: report

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    Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:00pm EDT
    An Apple's iPhone is displayed following its introduction in Berlin September 19, 2007. France Telecom and Apple are struggling to come to an agreement on the distribution of the U.S. group's iPhone in France, Challenges reported on Thursday on its website. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

    PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom and Apple are struggling to come to an agreement on the distribution of the U.S. group's iPhone in France, Challenges reported on Thursday on its website.

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    France Telecom, which trades mainly under the Orange brand, declined to comment.

    The French weekly said without citing sources that Apple and France Telecom were at odds over the percentage of service revenues the telecom operator had to give to Apple as part of the distribution deal.

    If the two groups fail to come to an agreement, the launch of the iPhone handset in France in time for the crucial Christmas season could be jeopardized, Challenges said.
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