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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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    Nokia delays N-gage gaming service launch

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    Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:55am EST
    An attendee at the Electronic Entertainment Expo plays a prototype of the new Nokia mobile game deck N-Gage in Los Angeles, May 15, 2003. Nokia has delayed the launch of its gaming service N-gage to ''early 2008'' from this month due to delays in software testing, a spokesman for the world's top cellphone maker said on Thursday. REUTERS/Brad Rickerby

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia has again pushed back the launch of its gaming service N-gage due to delays in software testing, a spokesman said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the Internet services ambitions of the world's top cell phone maker.

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    The gaming service, together with a music shop and mapping services, is one of the cornerstones of Nokia's drive into mobile Internet services under its new "Ovi" brand.

    Nokia has also pushed into next year expansion of its digital music store offering. Also Warner Music Group Corp has been withholding content from Nokia's only store in Britain.

    At the same time it has signed up Vodafone, Telefonica and Telecom Italia for Ovi.

    Nokia unveiled the gaming service in August, saying at the time it would be available globally in November. But in November it was delayed into December.

    Nokia's spokesman Kari Tuutti said the service would be opened in early 2008.

    "We found one more issue which had to be solved before we could open the service," Tuutti said.

    Nokia is the first handset maker to move strongly into the content space with services like music or filing sharing site Mosh, where millions have downloaded audio or video files, programs or documents.

    (Editing by David Cowell)
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