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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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    Clearwire plans to offer Google applications

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    A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Leicester, central England July 20, 2007. REUTERS/Darren Staples

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wireless service provider Clearwire Corp said on Tuesday that it would offer its customers applications such as e-mail and calendar from Web search leader Google Inc.

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    Clearwire said the applications, including the Google Talk instant message service, would become available to its wireless Internet customers in the first half of this year.

    The company, founded by wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, said it also planned to provide Google's Web search services on future Clearwire Web portal applications.

    Clearwire shares were up 25 cents, or 1.8 percent, at $14.24 in morning Nasdaq trade.

    The stock has fallen from more than $18 after No. 3 U.S. mobile provider Sprint Nextel said in November that it was ending a previously announced collaboration with Clearwire. The companies had planned to let their customers roam on each other's networks.

    Both companies are using an emerging wireless network technology known as WiMax. Sprint also has an agreement with Google.

    (Reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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